A charcoal VS Code theme inspired by the supplied Zed editor reference. It brings the same restrained surfaces and high-contrast syntax accents to the editor, Explorer, terminal, and workbench.
Features
Near-black editor canvas with a muted charcoal workbench and Explorer.
Cyan identifiers and properties, lime strings and new files, orange functions, coral control keywords, and lavender numbers.
Explorer Git decorations for added, modified, untracked, renamed, and deleted resources.
Coordinated ANSI terminal colors, cursor, and selection colors.
Designed to pair with Minimal Plus Theme, the recommended file icon theme.
Use the Theme
Install the vsced dark extension or open this repository in VS Code to develop it.
Open Preferences: Color Theme and select vsced dark.
For the matching file icons, install Minimal Plus Theme and select its vscode-minimal-plus-icon-theme icon theme.
The workspace settings in this repository already select the recommended icon theme and include the Explorer and terminal layout preferences used for the preview.
Palette
Use
Color
Editor background
#0d1117
Workbench / Explorer
#191b21 / #1f2024
Cyan
#61c8ff
Lime
#a6e22e
Orange
#ffad43
Coral
#f45b69
Lavender
#d3a0ff
Comments
#626e7c
Develop or Package
The theme definition is in themes/vsced-dark-color-theme.json. To package the extension locally, run this from the extension directory:
npx --yes @vscode/vsce package --no-dependencies
The VSIX is distributed under GPL-3.0-only and includes the Ayu Darker source attribution in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. Install the generated .vsix from the VS Code Extensions view using Install from VSIX....
