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Gotthard Theme

Gotthard Theme

Jan Biasi

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A nature inspired matte theme for everyday use, colorblind-friendly.
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Gotthard Theme

A fresh and relaxing theme for Visual Studio Code with a lot of language- and framework optimizations to provide a unified and accessible developer experience.

The Gotthard (Italian: Gottardo, German: Gotthard) at 2,106 m (6,909 ft) is a mountain pass in the Alps traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif and connecting northern and southern Switzerland.

Color Blind Friendly

The theme colors have been choosen to be color-blind friendly through all different theme variants.

  • Tritanomaly (blue-green)
  • Tritanopia (blue-green)
  • Protanomaly (red-green)
  • Deuteranomaly (red-blue)
  • Achromatomaly (red-blue-green)
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Available theme variants

  • Dark: default dark theme, best to get started with
  • Medium Dark: a slightly lighter version of the dark theme
  • Light: default light theme, try it if you want some variation during the day
  • Coming soon – Dark (High Contrast): same basis as the dark theme but with a higher contrast

Optimized languages (A - Z)

The theme is built to apply basic syntax highlighting to the most languages. Although a few languages are optimized to provide a unified development experience. Find the list with all optimized languages sorted alphabetically below.

If you miss a certain language optimization, please open a feature request on the GitHub repository. If you experience any issues while using the theme please also let us know by submitting a bug report on the GitHub repository.

  • CSS
  • Docker
  • Gradle (requires extension Gradle Language Support)
  • GraphQL (requires extension GraphQL)
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • JSON
  • JSX
  • LESS
  • PHP
  • PowerShell (requires extension PowerShell)
  • Python (requires extension Python)
  • Rust (requires extensions Rust Analyzer)
  • SASS
  • SCSS
  • Shell
  • SQL
  • TOML (requires extension Even better TOML)
  • TypeScript
  • XML
  • YAML

Optimized Frameworks (A - Z)

The theme is built to apply basic syntax highlighting to the most languages. However there are some frameworks which have different syntax or different feature-sets which have been optimized to provide a unified development experience. Find the list with all optimized frameworks sorted alphabetically below.

If you miss a certain framework optimization, please open a feature request on the GitHub repository. If you experience any issues while using the theme please also let us know by submitting a bug report on the GitHub repository.

  • Angular (requires extension Angular Language Service)

Pending optimizations

  • Kotlin
  • Prisma
  • Dart
  • Bazel
  • Go
  • Vue.js
  • Twig
  • Flow
  • Scala
  • C#
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