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Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise

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🦚 Birds of paradise with semantic highlighting
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Birds of Paradise Theme for VisualStudio Code

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From the Textmate theme birds of paradise
this is an attempt to add this theme in its full glory to VisualStudio Code

Insipred by

Semantic highlighting

  • Semantic Rainbow for providing a good reference on semantic highlighting.

Non relevant themes

  • Shades of Purplue for providing a good reference on highlighting vscode syntax.

Other Birds of Paradise themes

  • Repository with the SublimeText repo
    • Joe Bergantine as the original creator
    • Original description "based on a warmer color palette than it’s older brother, Specials Board, it’s a little bit more natural, a little bit more tropcial. The background is a rich dark brown with complimentary colors over the top. Birds of Paradise is named for the Paradisaeidae family of birds in New Guinea from which it draws inspiration."
    • I have tried to find the real original theme, but this theme has been adapted and modified many times that searching for it was a real quest.
  • Birds of Paradise iTerm2 color scheme for providing extra relevant colors Birds of Paradise colors
    • Original repo by zdj
  • Repository with perhaps the "real" original
  • Overview as used in TextMate

Intended as a replacement of

gerane Birds of Paradise

Enjoy!

Feel free to make any Pull request

Colors

An overview of the used colors

#6B4E32 - Comment (Original)
#876f58 - Comment (Adjusted brighter) - Due to readability two tint lighter

#EF5D32 - Keyword


From the iTerm color 
#Black
Normal | Bright #ab7f5b
#Blue 
Normal #6b98bb


Other usefull links

Experimented with colors with the help of Colorkit

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