Ayu Dark EMC

A warm, low-glare take on Ayu Dark for VS Code, ported from the ayu-dark-emc Emacs theme.

Every color family keeps a single OKLCH hue and shares the same lightness/chroma ladder (white, bright, light, medium, dark, grey, black), with per-family lightness offsets so yellow and blue read equally bright. Chroma is capped below the sRGB gamut edge, so nothing glows neon on the near-black #121210 background.

Syntax roles

Role	Color	Style
Keywords, storage, `self` / `this`	light orange `#FD9D44`	italic
Builtins (`print`, `len`, `console`)	light orange `#FD9D44`
Function definitions	medium blue `#43A9E3`	bold
Function calls	medium blue `#43A9E3`
Variable / parameter definitions, properties	bright blue `#97D5FE`
Variable uses	default white `#EFEBE0`
Types, classes	medium cyan `#19B3AD`
Constants, `true` / `None`	light purple `#CE9AFD`	bold
Strings	medium lime `#98B91F`
Docstrings / doc comments	dark lime `#779110`	italic
Numbers	white cyan `#A0EBE6`
Operators, punctuation, escapes	white orange `#FCD1B0`
Decorators, macros, preprocessor	light yellow `#E6C61D`
Comments	default grey `#7C8474`	italic

Brackets use the rainbow-delimiters ladder (dark lime, cyan, blue, purple, orange, yellow). The UI follows the Emacs mode-line, corfu, vertico, diff-hl and treemacs faces.

Install

Search for Ayu Dark EMC in the Extensions view, or run:

code --install-extension jerryemc.ayu-dark-emc

Then pick it with Preferences: Color Theme (Cmd+K Cmd+T).

Building from source

The theme JSON is generated from the Emacs palette, so the .el file stays the single source of truth:

npm run build     # themes/ayu-dark-emc-color-theme.json from ../themes/emacs/ayu-dark-emc-theme.el
npm run check     # every color key is one VS Code registers; every value is valid hex
npm run package   # build + check + ayu-dark-emc-<version>.vsix

License

MIT