Gentle Daylight (VS Code theme)

A soft light VS Code theme designed to reduce eye strain

Gentle Daylight is a minimal light theme built from your workbench.colorCustomizations aimed at reducing eye strain while coding.

Preview

Features

• Soft, low-contrast UI and editor colors
• Readable syntax color choices
• Lightweight and unobtrusive

Installation

From a local VSIX (packaged):

npx -y @vscode/vsce package
code --install-extension gentle-daylight-theme-0.1.2.vsix

Activate the theme

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P)
2. Run Preferences: Color Theme
3. Select Gentle Daylight

Customize

Example settings.json snippet:

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
	"editor.background": "#fbfbfb",
	"editor.foreground": "#2b2b2b"
}

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — open an issue or submit a pull request at https://github.com/krahd/gentle-daylight-theme

Support

Report bugs and request features on GitHub: https://github.com/krahd/gentle-daylight-theme/issues

License

See LICENSE for license details.