🎄 Christmas Theme
A cozy VS Code color theme for Christmas: Santa red, holly green and star gold on a silent-night navy sky.
Color Palette
| Role |
Color |
| Background |
#0E1626 — silent-night navy |
| Activity Bar / Status Bar |
#B3121F — Santa suit red |
| Keywords |
#FF5A65 — Santa red (bold) |
| Strings |
#6BD889 — holly green |
| Functions |
#FFD15C — star gold |
| Types / Classes |
#8EC9FF — frost blue |
| Numbers |
#F2A65A — gingerbread |
| Namespaces |
#76E4D2 — mint |
| Comments |
#62708A — frosted slate (italic) |
| Variables |
#F1E3C6 — eggnog |
| Foreground |
#F2F6FC — snow white |
Festive Details
- Semantic highlighting on:
self/cls in Santa red, dunder methods frost blue, deprecated symbols struck through
- Ghost text (inline suggestions) and dead code fade into the snow
- Bracket pairs cycle red, frost blue, holly, gold, crimson, mint
- Docstrings whisper in dim italic; string quotes dim to deep holly
- Menus, pickers, hovers framed in pine green, badges in star gold
- Diff / merge / git in holly and crimson; tests pass holly, fail crimson
- Terminal 16-color palette: crimson, holly, gold, frost blue, peppermint, mint, eggnog
Effects
Effects only run while 🎄 Christmas is the active color theme (setting christmas.onlyWhenThemeActive).
| Effect |
What happens |
Setting |
| Typing pops |
Every 4th keystroke a 🎄 🎅 ❄️ 🎁 ⭐ 🦌 pops after the cursor and vanishes |
christmas.typingEffects.* |
| Comment emojis |
🎁 TODO, 🔥 FIXME, 🦌 BUG, 🧝 HACK, 🧨 XXX, 📜 NOTE, ❄️ DEPRECATED / @deprecated |
christmas.commentEmojis.enabled |
| Gutter icons |
Lump of coal on error lines (naughty), jingle bell on warning lines |
christmas.gutterIcons.enabled |
| Status bar |
🎄 53 days to Christmas, click to cycle installed Kobber themes |
christmas.statusBar.enabled, christmas.cycleThemes |
| Save messages |
Occasional "🎅 Saved. Santa saw that." in the status bar |
christmas.saveMessages.enabled |
| Snippets |
jolly banner, xmastree ASCII art, naughty list TODO (any language with line comments) |
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Commands (Cmd+Shift+P): Christmas: Let It Snow, Christmas: Toggle Typing Effects, Christmas: Cycle Color Theme.
Installation
From VSIX (manual)
- Download the
.vsix file
- Open VS Code → Extensions (
Ctrl+Shift+X)
- Click
... → Install from VSIX...
- Select the file and reload
From source (development)
cd vscode-themes
code .
# Run and Debug → "Christmas Theme" → F5 to launch Extension Development Host
# Then: Command Palette → Color Theme → 🎄 Christmas
Build VSIX
npm install -g @vscode/vsce
cd christmas-theme
vsce package
License
MIT
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