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Caffeinated Rust

A warm, restrained dark theme for platform engineering, systems code and focused sessions.

Caffeinated Rust theme in Visual Studio Code

Caffeinated Rust in Visual Studio Code

Why Caffeinated Rust?

Signal over decoration: rust marks control flow, coral marks text, mint marks actions and blue marks types.
A complete workbench: editor, terminal, panels, lists, diagnostics and source control share one visual system.
Built for platform work: carefully mapped highlighting across Go, Python, Rust, shell, TypeScript, YAML and more.
Calm by design: charcoal surfaces, soft foregrounds and restrained accents keep ordinary code neutral.

No runtime services, telemetry or language-specific dependencies—install the theme and select it.

See it in action

C

C espresso-machine code using Caffeinated Rust

Go

Go barista queue using Caffeinated Rust

Python

Python tea recipes using Caffeinated Rust

Rust

Rust coffee recommendation code using Caffeinated Rust

Java

Java café menu using Caffeinated Rust

TypeScript

TypeScript café counter using Caffeinated Rust

Bash

Bash brewing automation using Caffeinated Rust

Kubernetes YAML

Kubernetes café deployment using Caffeinated Rust

Design language

Automation is self-care. Caffeinated Rust uses colour as a semantic signal rather than decoration. Related constructs share a visual role, while red and yellow remain reserved for diagnostics.

Role	Colour	Used for
Background	`#1A1A1A`	Deep charcoal editor surface
Foreground	`#EDEDED`	Variables, constants, properties and keys
Keywords	`#D46A37`	Control flow, declarations and annotations
Strings	`#F7A072`	Text literals, escapes and regular expressions
Functions	`#76C7A5`	Functions and methods
Types	`#70AFFF`	Classes, interfaces and namespaces
Punctuation	`#A8A8A8`	Structural separators
Comments	`#8D8D8D`	Commentary and documentation

Parameters, properties, constants, numbers and configuration keys intentionally stay soft white instead of receiving another accent colour. This keeps emphasis meaningful in dense code and configuration files.

Language coverage

Caffeinated Rust includes representative highlighting fixtures for:

C, Go, Rust and Java
Python, Bash, JavaScript and TypeScript
YAML, JSON, Dockerfile and Terraform/HCL
Markdown

TextMate rules provide broad fallback highlighting. When a language server is available, semantic tokens distinguish more precise roles such as types, methods and parameters.

Install

Install from the Visual Studio Marketplace, or run:

code --install-extension CaffeinatedMinds.caffeinated-rust-dark

Then open the Command Palette with Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P, run Preferences: Color Theme, and select Caffeinated-Rust.

Feedback and contributions

License

Released under the MIT License.

Built with ☕ by Caffeinated Minds