Sora

Sora

A dark Neovim colorscheme. Ethereal cyan, cool silver, deep OLED blacks. Ported to VS Code.

Configure · Palette · Extras · License

Philosophy

Sora sits between Tokyo Night's saturation and Lume's muted pastels. The background is near-black with a cool blue undertone, deep enough for OLED. Syntax colors are muted but readable - they don't compete with each other.

The signature ethereal cyan (#80c8e0) for functions is lighter and softer than Tokyo Night's blue, cooler than Lume's lavender. A single warm accent - gold (#d4b878) for constants and numbers - acts like a star against the cool palette. That one warm point in a field of cool tones is what gives Sora its look.

Eight named accents, each with a clear role. No neon, no Christmas tree.

Configuration

You can override anything from your settings.json, scoped to Sora so other themes are untouched.

Recipes

Pure black OLED background

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
  "[Sora]": {
    "editor.background": "#000000",
    "sideBar.background": "#000000",
    "panel.background": "#000000",
    "terminal.background": "#000000"
  }
}

No italics

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
  "[Sora]": {
    "textMateRules": [
      {
        "scope": [
          "comment", "keyword", "storage", "constant.language.boolean",
          "variable.language", "support.function.builtin", "support.type.builtin",
          "support.type.primitive", "meta.preprocessor"
        ],
        "settings": { "fontStyle": "" }
      }
    ]
  }
},
"editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations": {
  "[Sora]": {
    "rules": {
      "keyword": { "italic": false },
      "comment": { "italic": false },
      "selfKeyword": { "italic": false },
      "*.defaultLibrary": { "italic": false }
    }
  }
}

To keep italics everywhere but comments, list only comment in both blocks

Brighter comments

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
  "[Sora]": { "comments": "#6a7890" }
}

Tweak a syntax color

Semantic colors come from language servers and override TextMate scope

"editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations": {
  "[Sora]": {
    "rules": { "function": "#a0d8f0" }
  }
}

Palette

Role	Color	Hex
Background		`#0e1018`
Foreground		`#c8d0e0`
Cyan		`#80c8e0`
Purple		`#b0a0d8`
Sage		`#90c8a0`
Peach		`#d0a888`
Gold		`#d4b878`
Rose		`#d0909c`
Teal		`#78b8b0`
Steel		`#8898b8`

Extras

Sora is available in most of tools you probably use; Neovim, Zed, Ghostty, Kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, Helix, bat, Delta, tmux, Obsidian and more in the Original Sora Repo

License

MIT. Palette and syntax mapping from Aejkatappaja/sora