Frost & Cherry

A minimal, modern theme duo for people who want their editor to get out of the way.

• Frost (Light) — ice white with turquoise as the single driving accent.
• Cherry (Dark) — warm near-black with dark cherry red as the single driving accent.

Each theme borrows the other's accent for constants, numbers, and decorators — a small thread that ties the pair together when you switch between day and night.

Screenshots

Frost (Light)

Cherry (Dark)

Design

• Flat and borderless. The activity bar, status bar, and title bar melt into the editor. Panels separate by tone, not lines.
• One accent per theme. Turquoise or cherry carries the cursor, active tab underline, badges, buttons, and selections — nothing else competes in the UI.
• A quiet syntax palette with friendly companions. Keywords take the accent; functions, types, strings, and constants each get one muted supporting hue (blue, violet, sage, and amber in Frost; gold, lavender, peach, and turquoise in Cherry) so code structure is easy to tell apart at a glance. Operators, punctuation, and tag brackets fade back. Comments and parameters are italic.
• Restraint over rainbow. About six calm hues per theme instead of ten loud ones. Your code provides the structure; the theme just tints it.

Language support

Tuned and tested for JavaScript / TypeScript / JSX, HTML, CSS, C, C++, C#, and Python, with dedicated scopes for Rust (macros, lifetimes, attributes), Go, Java/Kotlin (annotations), PHP, Ruby, Swift, shell scripts, SQL, regex literals, Markdown, JSON, YAML/TOML/INI, and diffs. Semantic highlighting is enabled, so language servers refine colors further.

Install

1. Open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X) and search for Frost & Cherry.
2. Click Install, then pick Frost (Light) or Cherry (Dark) via Ctrl+K Ctrl+T.

Palette

Tweaking

Prefer different string or comment colors? Override any token without forking the theme:

// settings.json
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
  "[Cherry (Dark)]": {
    "comments": "#7A6C6E"
  }
}

Inspired by the restraint of Min Theme. Enjoy the quiet.