Custom Dark Charcoal Panels
A highly optimized dark color theme for Visual Studio Code. This theme delivers a premium coding experience by blending a rich, deep charcoal editor surface with custom deep navy panels, clean white text elements, and high-contrast, glowing syntax highlighting.
Designed for long coding sessions to reduce eye strain while maintaining structural readability.
Features
- Deep Charcoal Workspace: An optimized
#161616 background for the editor and sidebars to maximize focus.
- Neon UI Accents: Vivid blue activity bars, badges, and active tab highlights (
#03129b and #0077ff) to make navigation effortless.
- Vibrant Syntax Color Scheme: High-contrast text colorization across JavaScript, Python, C#, C++, and HTML/CSS.
- Clean Readability: Carefully calculated foreground balances to ensure your code stands out clearly without being overly blinding.
Screenshots

Panels View

Installation
- Open Visual Studio Code.
- Go to the Extensions view (
Ctrl+Shift+X or Cmd+Shift+X).
- Search for Custom Sublime Monokai Panels (or your custom display name).
- Click Install.
- Press
Ctrl+K then Ctrl+T (or Cmd+K then Cmd+T on Mac) and select Custom Sublime Monokai from the menu.
Recommended Settings
For the absolute best visual experience, add the following snippet to your user settings.json file to enable smooth font rendering and clean indent guides:
{
"editor.renderWhitespace": "selection",
"editor.guides.indentation": true,
"editor.guides.activeIndentation": true
}
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{
"surface.border": "#00000000",
"modernPanel.border": "#00000000",
"sash.hoverBorder": "#00000000",
}
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.