NightShift Lobo — VS Code Theme

Precision Dark. Engineered Focus.

NightShift Lobo is a research-calibrated developer theme ecosystem designed for low eye strain, deep focus, and long coding sessions—across your full toolchain.

This repository contains the VS Code theme pack for NightShift Lobo, including four flavours tuned for different lighting conditions.

Flavours

🌑 Eclipse (Dark · Ultra Low Light)

The deepest variant—built for late-night sessions and minimal screen glare.

🌘 Shadow (Dark · Balanced Night)

The default daily driver—calm contrast, steady readability, and consistent semantics.

🪨 Obsidian (Dark · High Depth)

Richer surfaces and stronger separation—ideal for larger monitors and dense UIs.

🌅 Dawn (Light · Low Glare Daytime)

A warm, professional light theme—no sterile white, tuned for bright environments.

What’s Included

✅ Full VS Code UI theming (editor + workbench)
✅ TextMate token colors (syntax highlighting)
✅ Semantic token colors (modern highlighting)
✅ Terminal ANSI colors
✅ Markdown + XML + YAML improvements (where supported by scopes)

Installation

VS Code Marketplace

Open Extensions in VS Code
Search for NightShift Lobo
Install and select a flavour:

Command Palette → Preferences: Color Theme Choose:

NightShift Lobo — Eclipse
NightShift Lobo — Shadow
NightShift Lobo — Obsidian
NightShift Lobo — Dawn

Manual (from source)

Clone this repo
Copy the theme extension folder into your VS Code extensions directory
Reload VS Code

Recommended Settings (Optional)

For best results with semantic highlighting:

{
  "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "NightShift Lobo — Shadow",
  "workbench.preferredLightColorTheme": "NightShift Lobo — Dawn"
}

Accent System

NightShift Lobo supports a consistent accent identity across tools. Canonical accent names (shared with DankMaterialShell and Fuzzel):

Deep Indigo
Horizon Blue
Calm Lagoon
Muted Aqua
Olive Meadow
Soft Ochre
Clay Ember
Terracotta Rose
Morning Violet
Focus Blue
Warm Highlight
Storm Grey

VS Code currently ships as flavour-based themes (accents may be introduced as additional theme variants).

Design Goals

Low eye strain: softened extremes, controlled luminance, no pure black/white
Deep focus: calm contrast, minimal visual noise
Semantic clarity: consistent mapping of syntax categories to color roles
Toolchain cohesion: aligned colours across Kitty, Neovim, DankMaterialShell, and more

Roadmap

✅ Night themes: Eclipse / Shadow / Obsidian
✅ Day theme: Dawn
🔧 More language-specific scope tuning (Markdown/YAML/XML edge cases)
🔧 Optional accent variants as separate theme entries

Contributing

PRs are welcome—especially for:

Language scope improvements (TextMate + semantic tokens)
Better coverage for Markdown, XML, YAML, JSON, and diff views
UI edge cases in VS Code workbench components

When contributing, please keep changes aligned with: “Precision Dark. Engineered Focus.”

License

MIT

Author

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