Picta (Latin “decorated, painted, coloured”) is a fork of the GitHub VS Code themes providing much more complete source code highlighting with a modified and extended colour palette:
These colours have the following general meanings:
Colour
Meaning
Notes
Red
Keywords
Orange
Variables
more reddish than GitHub orange to make space for Picta yellow
Yellow
Unknown
new colour
Olive
None
new colour
Green
Functions
Cyan
None
new colour
Blue
Enums
A different shade is used for literals
Indigo
Types
more blueish than GitHub purple to make space for Picta purple
Purple
Concepts (C++)
new colour
Pink
Modules/Namespaces
more reddish than GitHub pink to make space for Picta purple
Furthermore, italic identifiers represent member variables/functions (attributes/methods in OOP parlance) and bold represents function/type/template parameters.
The Extended themes additionally underline constants (if the language support is able to determine immutability).
The extended themes look as follows when applied to a C++ program using clangd:
