LBB Builder Theme

A colorful VS Code/VSCodium theme pack for builders — vivid where your eye glances, calm where it lingers, with a matching integrated-terminal palette for long coding sessions.

Three themes, pick the one that fits your light:

• LBB Builder Dark — the calm default; rich color on a soft, tinted dark background.
• LBB Builder Light — built independently for bright rooms and daylight (not an inverted dark theme).
• LBB Builder Aurora — vivid, higher-saturation, deeper background for when you want more energy.

Every color is derived in the perceptual OKLCH space and checked against APCA contrast targets, so accents stay legible and prose stays comfortable over long sessions. See the design notes for the research behind it.

Install

• VS Code (Marketplace): Extensions → search LBB Builder Theme → Install.
• VSCodium (Open VSX): Extensions → search LBB Builder Theme → Install.
• From a VSIX (anywhere): download from Releases (or build one — see below), then Extensions → … → Install from VSIX….

Links: Website · Open VSX · Marketplace · GitHub

Activate

Command Palette → Preferences: Color Theme → pick LBB Builder Dark, Light, or Aurora.

Integrated terminal

The integrated terminal picks up each theme's ANSI palette automatically — nothing to configure.

Colorful ls in your terminal (Linux/macOS)

The colors of folders and files in ls output don't come from your editor theme — they come from your shell's LS_COLORS, and a system update can quietly switch them off. To turn them back on, add this to ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc):

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.config/lbb/dircolors 2>/dev/null || dircolors -b)"

This repo ships an optional preset at extras/dircolors/lbb.dircolors — copy it to ~/.config/lbb/dircolors and the snippet above will load it (it falls back to sensible defaults if the file isn't there). It uses the standard 16 ANSI colors, so it automatically matches whichever LBB terminal theme is active.

Going further (optional)

Starship prompt

Starship is a fast cross-shell prompt. It styles your prompt (user@host:path), not your file colors. Install it, then add eval "$(starship init bash)" (or zsh/powershell) to your shell config. A minimal LBB preset lives at extras/starship/starship.toml — copy it to ~/.config/starship.toml.

External terminals

Want matching colors outside VS Code? Import the schemes in extras/:

• Windows Terminal: extras/windows-terminal/schemes.json · iTerm2: extras/iterm2/*.itermcolors

Build a VSIX

npm i && npx vsce package --no-dependencies

License

MIT — see LICENSE.