🌲 Everforest Moss & Gold

简体中文说明

“An accidental discovery in a single plotting experiment opened up a whole exploration of the colors of a forest morning.”

🖼️ Gallery

WSL Terminal & System Info

Perfectly tuned for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on WSL2, showcasing a visual style that closely matches terminal ANSI colors.
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Python Highlighting in Practice

Optimized for data science and AI development (e.g. YOLOv5, PyTorch), with clearly layered logic and structure.
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📖 Overview

Everforest Moss & Gold is a VS Code theme designed for developers who value deep focus. It strips away unnecessary visual noise and aims to simulate a coding environment that feels like an early-morning forest:

A deep, calm background like a dense forest before dawn
Moss green and academic cyan as if they were the first rays of sunlight cutting through the mist

As a first-year university student, this project is my initial attempt at exploring the intersection of code aesthetics and logical clarity. It may not be perfect yet, but it contains my personal understanding of Python and C development environments, refined through pixel-level tweaks.

This theme is also heavily inspired by the open-source Everforest color scheme and the Everforest Pro VS Code extension. They shaped much of the overall atmosphere and color philosophy behind this project, and I am deeply grateful for the groundwork they laid.

🔑 Keywords

Morning Forest
Moss & Gold
Low Fatigue
Python/C Optimized
Student Project
Academic Aesthetic

📂 Table of Contents

✨ Origin: That Accidental Palette
🎨 12-Color Core Palette
📦 Installation
⚙️ Recommended Settings
🙏 Credits & What’s Next
💡 Outro

✨ Origin: That Accidental Palette

This theme was not meticulously planned from the start. It began with a small, unexpected discovery about “morning-forest vibes.”

While experimenting with matplotlib color palettes, I accidentally placed these three colors side by side:

Pythoncolors = [
    "#5F9EA0",  # Cadet Blue (like cool morning mist)
    "#483D8B",  # Dark Slate Blue (a deep, weighty forest base)
    "#D2B48C",  # Tan (the warm, vintage sheen of tree bark)
]

The combination of logical clarity and natural breathability in this palette immediately captivated me.
I then brought it into my settings.json and, after weeks of pixel-level tweaks—especially around semantic highlighting—it gradually evolved into Everforest Moss & Gold: a code world that belongs to morning, to the forest, and to pure logic.

🎨 12-Color Core Palette

Everforest Moss & Gold 12-Color Palette

These 12 logical dimensions form the DNA of the early-morning forest:

Role	Hex	Logic Role	Imagery Description
Variables	`#95B47B`	Core Moss Green	The structural “bones” scattered through the woods
Functions	`#5F9EA0`	Core Academic Cyan	Actions and logic piercing through the mist
Classes	`#B08A95`	Core Highlight Purple	Elegant type definitions, like flowers in the forest
Constants	`#D699B6`	Constants	Sparkling constants and numeric highlights
Strings	`#DBBC7F`	Strings	Warm, wood-like textual texture
Keywords	`#E67E80`	Keywords	Clear but gentle logical boundaries
Operators	`#E69875`	Operators	Earthy orange accents that add rhythm to code
Background	`#1A1B26`	Midnight Forest	A quiet, distraction-free base
Foreground	`#D3C6AA`	Retro Paper	Vintage text tone, like an old botanical plate
Comments	`#7E8A94`	Subtle Gray	Comments fading into the morning haze
Active UI	`#A7C080`	Active Border	Lively, breathing interaction boundaries
Selection	`#374145`	Selection	Dawn-like, soft selection glow

📦 Installation

🌟 Marketplace Download (Coming Soon ❤️)

This theme is currently being submitted to the Visual Studio Marketplace. Once approved, you can search for Everforest Moss & Gold directly in the VS Code Extensions view to install it with one click.

(Wait... chances are, it's already live by the time you're reading this! Go ahead and give it a search!)

1. Install from VSIX (Recommended)

Download the release file: everforest-moss-gold-1.0.0.vsix.
Open VS Code and go to the Extensions panel.
Click the ... icon in the top-right corner.
Choose “Install from VSIX...”.
Select the downloaded everforest-moss-gold-1.0.0.vsix to complete the installation.

2. Manual Configuration

Open the themes/ directory of this project.
Copy the JSON configuration from the theme file you want.
Manually merge it into your VS Code user settings.json (be careful not to overwrite your existing settings).

⚙️ Recommended Settings

For the best “forest morning” contrast and reading experience, I recommend:

{
  "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
  "editor.fontFamily": "Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace",
  "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "MesloLGS NF",
  "editor.lineHeight": 1.6,
  "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on"
}

Of course, feel free to fine-tune line height, font, or font weight according to your display and preferences.

🙏 Credits & What’s Next

Thanks to the Everforest Community

In terms of color philosophy and overall atmosphere, this theme is deeply influenced by:

Everforest (original color scheme GitHub repository)
The Everforest Pro VS Code extension

These projects made me realize that a theme is not just a pile of colors—it can be an emotional space you’re willing to stay in for a long time.

Everforest Moss & Gold is not a direct copy, but a re-creation based on my own workflows and aesthetic preferences. I’m sincerely grateful to the original authors and community for their long-term maintenance and sharing, which gave me the chance to plant a small patch of “moss” in this broader forest.

🌲 Complete the Experience

Love the "Morning Forest" vibe? Get the matching terminal setup for WSL!

Check out everforest-moss-gold-wsl to sync your zsh, yazi, and btop with this theme.

(Chances are, it's already live by the time you're reading this! ❤️)

💡 Outro

As I’m currently still a first-year university student, this project is very much a work in progress.
If you notice any odd or uncomfortable highlighting while using the theme, I’d be truly glad to hear from you via GitHub Issues.

Wish you a refreshing coding morning! 🌲☀️

Created with ❤️ by zhouyukai (Zhou Yukai)