Stellar Dust Theme
A beautiful, eye-friendly dark custom theme collection for Visual Studio Code featuring tailored semantic token highlighting for a focused coding experience.
🎨 Theme Variations
Stellar Dust comes with two distinct UI variants designed for focused development while using the exact same rich, polyglot syntax highlighting:
- 🌌 Stellar Dust: Deep Space Navy UI with vibrant star dust accents.
- 🌑 Stellar Dust Modern: Sleek Dark Charcoal UI for an ultra-clean, pitch-dark workspace.
✨ Features
- 🌌 Eye-Friendly Dark Aesthetic: Engineered specifically with deep dark backgrounds to reduce eye strain and fatigue during long coding sessions.
- ⚡ Vibrant & Balanced Contrast: Carefully tuned syntax highlighting designed for maximum code readability and structural focus.
- 🧠 Semantic Token Support: Complete integration with VS Code's semantic highlighting engine for enhanced syntax rendering across functions, parameters, classes, and types.
- 🎨 Polyglot Optimization: Optimized token mappings across JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C/C++, Rust, Go, Java, PHP, C#, HTML/CSS, JSON, and Markdown.
- 🖥️ Sleek UI Integration: Unified dark aesthetics across the sidebar, activity bar, status bar, panel titles, breadcrumbs, and command palette.
🚀 Installation
Option 1: Via VS Code Marketplace
- Open VS Code.
- Press
Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+X (macOS) to open the Extensions view.
- Search for
Stellar Dust.
- Click Install.
- Press
Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+K Ctrl+T (macOS) and select either Stellar Dust or Stellar Dust Modern.
Option 2: Quick Open
- Press
Ctrl+P (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+P (macOS).
- Paste the following command and press Enter:
ext install OnkarChougule99.stellar-dust
⚙️ Recommended Settings
For the best experience with Stellar Dust, we recommend enabling bracket pair colorization and semantic highlighting in your VS Code settings.json:
{
"workbench.colorTheme": "Stellar Dust Modern",
"editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active"
}
🤝 Feedback & Contributions
Issues, suggestions, and feedback are always welcome! Feel free to share your thoughts or submit contributions to help improve the theme.
📄 License
This theme is released under the MIT License.