Minor ThemesA collection of VS Code color themes — soft pastels, pride palettes, retro terminals, and country palettes rooted in traditional culture. Theme guideEach palette is defined in InnocentMeaning: Innocent — pure, gentle, unassuming. Innocent (light) — Blush rose and soft lavender (hues ~280–340°). Backgrounds stay near white with a faint pink wash; text is muted purple-gray. Accents are dusty rose and periwinkle — selection, cursor, and brackets feel airy rather than loud. Syntax: keywords in rose, strings in violet-gray, numbers in deeper pink. Calm, feminine, easy on the eyes. Dark Innocent — Lavender twilight: soft purple dusk shell (not neutral gray), lilac-mist text, dusty rose cursor and periwinkle glow. Innocence doesn't vanish in darkness — it becomes a quiet, ethereal night. Softer and cooler than Dark Maiden's ink-and-vellum warmth. MaidenMeaning: Maiden — young woman; also the romantic, delicate sense of “maidenly.” Light Maiden — Warm shell pink (low saturation red, ~94% lightness) with deep rose-red body text and golden-yellow highlights ( Dark Maiden — Ink and wax by lamplight: aged vellum shadow (warm umber, not magenta gray), iron-gall rose ink text, honey-gold highlights, dried sage line numbers. The light theme’s stationery becomes a letter read in a quiet room — literary, restrained, pre-modern femininity. GirlMeaning: Girl — youthful, bold, playful (not “girly” as in childish — more vivid and confident). Light Girl — High-saturation coral-red panel (~h 4–6°) on white, with hot pink quotes and sky-blue intervals. Accents are loud: full-strength red cursor, cyan selections, yellow “today” markers. Dark Girl — Screen glow in a warm dark room: coral-black shell (not purple “anime night”), loud coral cursor, cyan LED intervals, hot-pink quote stickers. Same bold confidence as the light theme — youth energy tuned for dim light, not muted into pastel darkness. MorandiMeaning: Named after Italian painter Giorgio Morandi — his still lifes are famous for dusty, muted, harmonious grays. Light Morandi — Warm greige window (~h 35°, low saturation) and blue-gray text (~h 230°). Accents are desaturated teal and dusty rose — nothing neon. Borders and grids are soft; contrast is deliberately restrained. Dark Morandi — Studio at closing: umber ochre shadow (his bottle browns), chalk-dust cool gray text, dusty teal and faded sage accents — pigments whispering in low north light. Still gallery-quiet; saturation stays deliberately low. LGBTQMeaning: Colors drawn from the rainbow pride flag (Gilbert Baker design). Stripe colors appear as accents (not full-background stripes):
Light LGBTQ — Neutral cool-gray shell; stripe hues as readable accents. Celebratory without painting the whole editor in stripes. Dark LGBTQ — Rain-slick night parade: deep storm indigo shell holding space for stripe hues to glow like wet neon signage — violet actions, green strings, yellow highlights, cyan numbers. Celebration needs darkness as backdrop, not as mute. LesbianMeaning: An inward color language — the warmth and closeness of love between women. Light Lesbian — Dusk on a shared balcony: warm peach shell (~h 25°), sunset orange intervals, blush pink quote glow, deep rose-magenta keywords and cursor — intimate, tender, not fragile. Dark Lesbian — Skin warmth after sunset: terracotta umber shadow (not wine-plum), ember orange and blush pink glow on cocoa depth — closeness held in one warm band. Inward, bodily, quiet confidence; distinct from Maiden’s literary rose. MS-DOSMeaning: Microsoft DOS — the classic PC text mode of the 1980s–90s. Saturated IBM blue background (~h 240°), white foreground, yellow strings, green actions, cyan muted text — the familiar Matrix IIMeaning: Reference to The Matrix (1999) — “Matrix” with a sequel nod in the name. Neon green (~h 135°) on near-black green-tinted panels. Glassy depth via subtle grid and border greens; cursor and active elements glow. Strings and functions pick up the bright green; keywords stay in a mid green. Cyberpunk terminal — best in a dim room. X-FilesMeaning: The X-Files (1993–) — FBI basement files, fluorescent bureaucracy, and night woods. Light X-Files — J. Edgar Hoover Building: manila folder cream shell, institutional gray-green text, FBI forest green cursor, amber highlighter quotes and git marks. Fluorescent office paper — case files under strip lighting. Dark X-Files — Basement and pine woods: forest night green-black shell, CRT phosphor pale text, alien green cursor, flashlight amber glow, classified red accents. The truth is out there — in the dark. Only YesterdayMeaning: Only Yesterday (Omohide Poro Poro, 1991) — Studio Ghibli memory of rural Yamagata: safflower fields, rice harvest gold, soft countryside green. Light Only Yesterday — Summer memory in sun: sun-washed cream shell, warm brown text, safflower red accents, meadow teal-green intervals, rice-field gold highlights. Nostalgic, gentle, sun-faded — Taeko’s flashbacks in daylight. Dark Only Yesterday — Tatami at dusk: umber memory shadow, faded cream text, safflower lantern red, golden recall and evening meadow green. Memory deepening after sunset — warm, not cold. Country themesMeaning: Each palette draws on classic cultural color expression — landscape, craft, ritual, and everyday beauty — not national flags. Every country has Light and Dark variants as independent palettes.
Primary hues tint the shell; secondary and accent colors carry strings, cursor, selection, and git marks. InstallFrom the Marketplace — search for Minor Themes in VS Code or Cursor, then install. From source Install the generated Usage
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