Jack's Theme
A quiet theme collection for Visual Studio Code with carbon, graphite, silver, and draft-inspired editor options.
Jack's Theme is generated from a TypeScript source palette. The generated theme sets colors only; it does not set token font styles.
Source code is available at https://github.com/jackrobertscott/vscode-jacks-theme.
Features
- Jack's Carbon Theme uses near-black editor and workbench surfaces with subtle graphite dividers.
- Warm syntax colors for structure, strings, comments, and language symbols.
- Jack's Graphite Theme uses medium graphite surfaces, softer neutral borders, cool slate selections, and bright pastel syntax so it stays dark without feeling black.
- Jack's Silver Theme carries the graphite variant into light mode with mid-level silver-grey surfaces, visible neutral borders, dark syntax accents, and cool slate selections.
- Jack's Draft Theme uses warm paper surfaces, explicit wireframe borders, graphite text, blueprint focus lines, sticky-note highlights, redline diagnostics, and pencil-like guide colors to feel intentionally early-stage without harsh white glare.
- Semantic highlighting enabled for language-aware token colors.
Installation
Install the extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace when published, or package and install it locally with the finish workflow:
npm install
npm run finish
Development
Edit the TypeScript sources, then run the finish workflow:
npm run finish
Do not edit generated files in themes/ directly. They are generated from the TypeScript sources.
npm run finish is the repeatable end-of-change workflow: it regenerates themes, typechecks, validates generated theme JSON against the installed VS Code color registry, verifies version metadata, packages a temporary VSIX, and installs it locally. Run npm run validate:themes directly only when iterating on generated color IDs or schema checks.
When changing the extension, bump package.json and package-lock.json, add a matching CHANGELOG.md entry under the same version number, then run npm run finish to regenerate, typecheck, validate, package, and install the newest VSIX locally. For Marketplace releases, publish with npm run publish:marketplace -- --pat "$VSCE_PAT" after the release commit is clean.
