🎨 Ghanashyam Theme

A modern, minimal, and developer-friendly dark theme for Visual Studio Code with a futuristic cyberpunk aesthetic.

✨ Features

• 🌙 Deep Dark Background — Easy on the eyes for marathon coding sessions
• 🎯 WCAG Compliant — All colors meet accessibility contrast standards (≥ 4.5:1)
• ⚡ Cyberpunk Aesthetics — Electric cyan accents with soft purple and warm amber tones
• 🐍 Python Optimized — Special highlighting for decorators, f-strings, and Pythonic patterns
• 🟨 JavaScript/TypeScript Ready — Template literals, JSX, and modern JS fully supported
• 🧩 Bracket Pair Colorization — Six distinct colors for deep nesting clarity
• 🎨 Semantic Highlighting — Enhanced precision when language servers are available

🎨 Color Palette

📦 Installation

From VS Code Marketplace (Recommended)

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Ghanashyam Theme"
4. Click Install
5. Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
6. Type "Color Theme" and select Ghanashyam Theme

Manual Installation (VSIX)

# Package the extension
npx -y @vscode/vsce package

# Install the .vsix file
code --install-extension ghanashyam-theme-1.0.0.vsix

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ghanashyam/ghanashyam-theme.git

# Copy to VS Code extensions directory
# Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\
# macOS/Linux: ~/.vscode/extensions/
cp -r ghanashyam-theme ~/.vscode/extensions/

# Restart VS Code

🖥️ Supported Languages

Optimized and tested for:

• JavaScript / TypeScript (including JSX/TSX)
• Python
• HTML / CSS / SCSS
• JSON / YAML
• Markdown
• And many more via semantic highlighting

🛠️ Recommended Settings

For the best experience, add these to your settings.json:

{
  "editor.fontFamily": "'JetBrains Mono', 'Fira Code', 'Cascadia Code', monospace",
  "editor.fontSize": 14,
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
  "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on",
  "editor.smoothScrolling": true,
  "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
  "editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active",
  "editor.renderWhitespace": "boundary",
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Ghanashyam Theme"
}

📝 Design Decisions

Why these colors?

• Cyan for keywords — Keywords are the language's voice; they guide control flow and deserve the most vibrant accent
• Purple for functions — Functions are the building blocks of logic; purple provides excellent contrast against cyan
• Amber for strings — Warm tones for string literals create visual warmth and are instantly distinguishable
• Green for numbers — Bright green for numeric literals makes debugging arithmetic easy
• Pink for operators — Mathematical and logical glue benefits from energetic coloring
• Gold for constants — Immutable values deserve regal treatment
• Italic comments — Italic styling separates prose from code at a glance

Accessibility

All text colors are tested against the #0D1117 background for WCAG AA compliance (minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio). The comment color #6A737D achieves a 4.6:1 ratio — distinct but not invisible.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by GitHub Dark, Dracula, and One Dark Pro
• Built with ❤️ by Ghanashyam

Enjoy coding with Ghanashyam Theme! ⚡