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Plastic Slate

Plastic Slate

kayteh

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A simple theme with cute colors.
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Plastic Slate

Original: A simple syntax and UI theme for Visual Studio Code.


Modification of will-stone's Plastic for the iTerm2 Slate color palette. Semi-bright pastels replace bold.

Changes over Plastic

Plastic Original
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Plastic Slate
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Colours

Colours are taken from the iTerm2 Slate.

Most are left alone from the original Plastic scheme, but may get adjusted in the future.

This theme also includes colour changes to the Integrated Terminal to keep it in line with the colour source.

Colour names provided by Chirag Mehta's fantastic Name That Colour website.

Syntax

  • #c4c9c0 Kangaroo #c4c9c0 - text & variables
  • #c5a7d9 Light Wisteria #c5a7d9 - storage
  • #15ab9c Mountain Meadow #15ab9c - constant
  • #5c6370 Shuttle Gray #5c6370 - comments
  • #648890 Juniper #648890 - deprioritized punctuation
  • #d0ccca Cloud #d0ccca - prioritized punctuation
  • #81d778 Olivine #81d778 - strings
  • #7ab0d2 Half Baked #7ab0d2 - functions
  • #a481d3 Lilac Blush #a481d3 - tags
  • #e2a8bf Light Orchid #e2a8bf - keywords

UI

  • #1B659D Matisse #1B659D - Info
  • #A86515 Galliano #d4ac0d - Warnings
  • #C62D42 Brick Red #C62D42 - Errors
  • #3E4451 Bright Gray #3E4451 - Line numbers, invisibles, ruler
  • #21252b Shark #21252b - Fore-background (activity bar, status bar, editor)
  • #181A1F Woodsmoke #181A1F - Back-background (side bar)
  • #080A0F Bunker #080A0F - Back-back-background (input background, contrast borders)

Contribute

Themes can always be improved and tweaked so please feel free to log issues and send pull requests. However, please keep in mind that this theme strives to remain simple and language agnostic; for example, please do not ask for blah.blah.php or blah.blah.c scopes to be added.

Fork specific note: Some changes are better left to upstream Plastic, and merged into this repo. Color modifications, documentation, and tooling are the only pull requests recommended here.

Clone the repository to .vscode/extenstions/(remember to remove any other installed versions of Plastic Slate), run yarn to install dependencies, and yarn docs to serve the documentation page.

Use Microsoft's theme color reference for UI theming help.

You'll notice that the syntax is grouped by colour instead of scope. I find this much nicer to maintain.

Happy hacking :)

License

MIT

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