Charson Theme for VS Code

Beautiful dark themes with inline diagnostics, semantic highlighting

Themes Included

🔥 Charson Ember

Warm volcanic dark theme with amber and gold tones. Unique in a sea of cold blue themes — built for developers who want their editor to feel alive.

🌙 Charson Dark

Ocean-deep teal palette inspired by Solarized, refined with improved semantic highlighting and a modern aesthetic. Professional, calm, and easy on the eyes for long sessions.

Features

• 🎯 Full semantic token highlighting — functions, types, variables, parameters all distinct
• 🌈 Colorful bracket pair guides — 6 cycling colors per nesting level
• ⚡ Optimized for TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, CSS, HTML, Markdown, YAML, TOML
• 🖊️ Bold function names, italic keywords, italic type annotations
• 🎨 Complete symbolIcon colors — autocomplete and outline icons are meaningful
• 🔴 Tuned diagnostic colors — errors visible but not overwhelming
• 💡 Lightbulb icons for quick fixes
• 🗂️ Fully styled UI — tabs, sidebar, status bar, terminal, menus, debug toolbar, notifications

Installation

From VS Code Marketplace

1. Open VS Code
2. Press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on Mac)
3. Type ext install CharsonThemes.charson-theme
4. Press Enter
5. Open the theme picker with Ctrl+K Ctrl+T and select Charson Dark or Charson Ember

From VSIX

1. Download the .vsix file
2. Open VS Code Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Click ... menu → Install from VSIX
4. Select the downloaded file

Recommended Settings

{
  "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
  "editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active",
  "editor.fontFamily": "'JetBrains Mono', 'Fira Code', Menlo, Monaco, monospace",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.fontSize": 14,
  "editor.lineHeight": 1.6,
  "editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
  "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on",
  "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true
}

Color Palettes

🔥 Charson Ember

Warm volcanic palette — unique in the marketplace.

🌙 Charson Dark

Cool Solarized-inspired palette, refined.

Credits

Crafted by Richson — technology-driven enthusiasts with a passion for building things that live on the internet.

• Color theory inspired by Solarized by Ethan Schoonover
• Influenced by Tokyo Night and modern Neovim themes

License

MIT © Richson