Solarized Osaka for Visual Studio Code

A Visual Studio Code port of solarized-osaka.nvim — a clean, elegant take on Ethan Schoonover's Solarized palette.

Variants

Install

From the Marketplace: search for Solarized Osaka for VS Code, or install directly:

code --install-extension isaias-alt.solarized-osaka-vscode

From a .vsix file:

code --install-extension solarized-osaka-vscode-0.1.2.vsix

Then: Ctrl/Cmd + K → Ctrl/Cmd + T → pick Solarized Osaka.

The Marketplace keeps extension names unique across all publishers, and solarized-osaka was already taken, so this port is published as isaias-alt.solarized-osaka-vscode. The theme label in the picker is still Solarized Osaka.

Credits

This theme is a port. All of the color work belongs to the original author.

• Original project: solarized-osaka.nvim
• Author: Takuya Matsuyama (craftzdog)
• YouTube: @devaslife

The palette is transcribed from the Neovim implementation (lua/solarized-osaka/colors.lua) so the hex values match the original exactly. Solarized itself was designed by Ethan Schoonover.

If you like this theme, go star the original repository and subscribe to the channel. This port exists because that work is worth porting.

What was adapted

• Neovim highlight groups → VS Code workbench colors (colors)
• Treesitter captures → TextMate scopes (tokenColors) and semanticTokenColors
• Terminal ANSI colors follow the Solarized convention

Known deviation: the upstream light variant uses a very low contrast gray for comments on a cream background. This port uses a darker gray (#576d74) for legibility in the light variant. Everything else follows the upstream palette.

License

Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE and NOTICE.