An elegant dark theme for Visual Studio Code, combining a charcoal interface with colorful syntax highlighting and subtle blue accents.
Features
Deep charcoal editor background with distinct sidebar and panel surfaces.
Colorful syntax highlighting for keywords, strings, functions, types, and variables.
Semantic highlighting support for languages that provide semantic tokens.
Matching terminal ANSI colors, Git decorations, and diff highlights.
Italic comments and selected syntax elements.
Color palette
Element
Color
Editor background
#121314
Sidebar background
#191A1B
Editor foreground
#ABB2BF
Blue accent
#297AA0
Syntax blue
#61AFEF
Syntax green
#98C379
Syntax purple
#C678DD
Syntax yellow
#E5C07B
Syntax red
#E06C75
Syntax cyan
#56B6C2
Installation
From the Marketplace
Once the extension is published:
Open Extensions in Visual Studio Code.
Search for Kavitori Theme and install it.
Open the Command Palette and run Preferences: Color Theme.
Select Kavitori Theme.
From a VSIX file
Download or locate kavitori-theme.vsix.
Open the Command Palette and run Extensions: Install from VSIX....
Select the VSIX file.
Run Preferences: Color Theme and select Kavitori Theme.
Settings
You can also activate the theme in your settings.json:
{
"workbench.colorTheme": "Kavitori Theme"
}
Semantic highlighting is enabled by the theme. Its appearance depends on the active language extension and your editor settings.
Requirements
Visual Studio Code 1.70.0 or newer, as declared in the extension manifest.
Credits
Kavitori Theme combines interface colors from Visual Studio Code's Dark 2026 theme with syntax highlighting, semantic token rules, and selected editor and terminal colors from One Dark Pro.