☘️ St. Patrick's Day Theme
A lucky VS Code color theme inspired by St. Patrick's Day — leprechauns, clovers, and shamrocks, built around the Irish flag palette.
Color Palette
| Role |
Color |
| Background |
#0D2A14 — deep forest green |
| Activity Bar |
#009A44 — Irish green |
| Keywords |
#FF8200 — Irish orange |
| Strings |
#4CCA7A — light green |
| Functions |
#FFB347 — soft orange |
| Types / Classes |
#009A44 — Irish green |
| Comments |
#3D7A52 — muted green (italic) |
| Numbers |
#FFD700 — lucky gold |
| Foreground |
#FFFFFF — white |
Lucky Details
- Semantic highlighting on:
self/cls in Irish orange, dunder methods Irish green, deprecated symbols struck through
- Ghost text (inline suggestions) and dead code fade into the clover
- Bracket pairs cycle orange, Irish green, light green, gold, red, mint
- Docstrings in dim italic; string quotes dim to deep green
- Menus, pickers, hovers, notebooks, debug, testing all themed to match
Effects
Effects only run while ☘️ St. Patrick's Day is the active color theme (setting stpatricks.onlyWhenThemeActive).
| Effect |
What happens |
Setting |
| Typing pops |
Every 4th keystroke a ☘️ 🍀 🌈 🪙 🎩 🍺 pops after the cursor and vanishes |
stpatricks.typingEffects.* |
| Comment emojis |
🍀 TODO, 🍺 FIXME, 🐍 BUG, 🎩 HACK, 🌈 XXX, 🪙 NOTE, 🍂 DEPRECATED / @deprecated |
stpatricks.commentEmojis.enabled |
| Gutter icons |
Snake on error lines (drive them out), pot of gold on warning lines |
stpatricks.gutterIcons.enabled |
| Status bar |
☘️ 135 days to St. Patrick's Day, click to cycle installed Kobber themes |
stpatricks.statusBar.enabled, stpatricks.cycleThemes |
| Save messages |
Occasional "🍀 Saved. Luck of the Irish." in the status bar |
stpatricks.saveMessages.enabled |
| Snippets |
lucky banner, shamrock ASCII art, luck TODO (any language with line comments) |
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Commands (Cmd+Shift+P): St. Patrick's: Find the Pot of Gold, St. Patrick's: Toggle Typing Effects, St. Patrick's: 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 → "St. Patrick's Day Theme" → F5 to launch Extension Development Host
# Then: Command Palette → Color Theme → ☘️ St. Patrick's Day
Build VSIX
npm install -g @vscode/vsce
cd st-patricks-day-theme
vsce package
License
MIT
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