a-stranger-theme

Inspired by "Stranger Things", 1980s era Amdek 300A monitor I tinkered with as a kid, and eye comfort in very low light. Look for the *full Linux theme on omarchy.org

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Note below only for users of Lisp, Clojure, and Racket - Curly-brace nest coloring

This theme colors curly braces by nest depth (outer #eb0000, inner #b80000). Parentheses and square brackets are left to ordinary syntax colors. Editing, bracket matching, IntelliSense, and language tools are unchanged.

Lisp / Clojure / Racket

Caveat. Pair colorization is limited to { }. Rainbow parens on () and [] will not appear. Nested lists will not read by bracket color. Nothing else in the workflow breaks.

This is visual only. Do not install a second theme for it.

Remedy (restore rainbow parens)

Add a language-scoped override in your settings.json. Do not edit the extension.

"[clojure]": {
    "editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs": [
        ["(", ")"],
        ["[", "]"],
        ["{", "}"]
    ]
},
"[lisp]": {
    "editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs": [
        ["(", ")"],
        ["[", "]"],
        ["{", "}"]
    ]
},
"[racket]": {
    "editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs": [
        ["(", ")"],
        ["[", "]"],
        ["{", "}"]
    ]
}

Same pattern works for scheme, fennel, and clojurescript if you use those language IDs.

Remedy (turn nest coloring off)

"[clojure]": {
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false
},
"[lisp]": {
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false
},
"[racket]": {
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false
}

Keep pair colorization, drop the reds

Override the six nest colors in workbench.colorCustomizations if you want rainbow parens globally. That will also recolor { } in other languages.

This extension does not set editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs as a default for all users. If you copy the companion settings to match the intended look, use the overrides above for Lisp-family files.

Optional companion settings

These are editor settings, not theme colors. Add them to your settings.json if you want curly-brace-only pair colorization:

"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
"editor.bracketPairColorization.independentColorPoolPerBracketType": true,
"editor.language.colorizedBracketPairs": [
    ["{", "}"]
]