Roveliese for VS Code

Three atmospheric themes with rose accents, readable syntax, and quiet interfaces.

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Dark

Light

Storm

Usage

Manual installation

Download the VSIX from the latest GitHub release. Open the Command Palette and select Extensions: Install from VSIX..., then select the file you just downloaded.

After installing, open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and select Roveliese: Select Theme, then choose your variant:

Roveliese Dark
Roveliese Light
Roveliese Storm

You can also use VS Code's standard Preferences: Color Theme picker.

Product Icons

Roveliese Product Icons is an optional theme for interface icons in the Activity Bar, toolbars, and panels. You can enable it independently of the color theme.

Open the Command Palette and select Preferences: Product Icon Theme, then choose Roveliese Product Icons.

Customization

Open the Command Palette and select Roveliese: Configure Theme, or open Settings (Ctrl+,) and search for roveliese. All changes apply immediately without reloading.

Choose an accent. Recolor badges, the progress bar, focus indicators, and picker borders. Buttons stay rose.
Simplify the interface. flat blends the sidebar into the editor background; minimal also blends tabs, the Activity Bar, and the status bar.
Make navigation clearer. Choose clear for more visible scrollbars, tree and indent guides, and ignored Git decorations without changing syntax highlighting.
Adjust typography. Toggle italic or bold keywords and italic comments.
Tune brackets and indentation. Keep brackets monochromatic, fade them by depth with dimmed, or use six colors with rainbow. Indent guides support colored lines or backgrounds, with adjustable opacity and line width.

Indent guides use palette colors matched to the active variant. If you use the indent-rainbow extension, disable it to avoid duplicate highlights.

All Roveliese settings and defaults

Setting	Default	Options
`roveliese.accentColor`	`mauve`	`mauve` `rose` `lavender` `sapphire` `teal` `sky`
`roveliese.workbenchMode`	`default`	`default` `flat` `minimal`
`roveliese.navigationContrast`	`calm`	`calm` `clear`
`roveliese.bracketColors`	`monochromatic`	`monochromatic` `dimmed` `rainbow`
`roveliese.italicKeywords`	`false`	boolean
`roveliese.boldKeywords`	`false`	boolean
`roveliese.italicComments`	`true`	boolean
`roveliese.indent.enabled`	`true`	boolean
`roveliese.indent.style`	`line`	`line` `background`
`roveliese.indent.opacity`	per-theme	5–100
`roveliese.indent.lineWidth`	`1`	1–4

Recommended VS Code settings

{
  // Roveliese ships semantic token rules; keep this enabled
  "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
  // Preserve Roveliese's tuned terminal palette, especially in Light
  "terminal.integrated.minimumContrastRatio": 1,
  // Use the workbench color for the title bar
  "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
  // Optional: enable Go semantic tokens from gopls
  "gopls": {
    "ui.semanticTokens": true
  }
}

Custom color and syntax overrides

For fine-grained overrides, use VS Code's built-in settings directly. These stack on top of both the static theme and the Roveliese settings layer.

{
  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "[Roveliese Storm]": {
      "focusBorder": "#c0b0f0"
    },
    "[Roveliese Dark][Roveliese Storm]": {
      "editor.selectionBackground": "#2d3060"
    }
  },
  "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "[Roveliese Dark]": {
      "comments": "#888899"
    }
  }
}

Design

Roveliese centers on a quiet editor and a visible rose identity. Accents appear only where the interface needs emphasis: active controls, focus rings, selections, diagnostics, errors. Syntax stays readable without carrying the brand color everywhere.

All three variants share rose warmth, cool highlights, and restrained surfaces.

Each variant keeps the same Roveliese character while adjusting its contrast, temperature, and syntax balance for a different reading environment.

What's Covered

Workbench surfaces, navigation, Git diffs, testing, and debug UI
Terminal colors tuned for all three variants
Syntax highlighting and semantic tokens for Python, JS/TS, Rust, Go, C/C++, and more
IntelliSense, Outline, and breadcrumb symbol colors aligned with syntax highlighting

Full language and semantic token coverage

Syntax highlighting: Python, JS/TS, Rust, Go, C/C++, Java, PHP, C#, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift, CSS, HTML, Markdown, SQL, Shell, PowerShell, YAML, TOML, JSON, XML, Dockerfile, GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, Terraform/HCL, and more.

Semantic tokens: Pylance (Python), Intelephense (PHP), rust-analyzer, gopls, jdtls (Java), C# Dev Kit, C/C++, and JS/TS.

Extension Support

Roveliese themes the following extensions out of the box:

Support

Found an issue or have a suggestion? Open an issue on GitHub or reach out via the Marketplace Q&A.