mK Coding Extension

A bundled VS Code coding experience with an mK theme, icon themes, and editor quality-of-life features.

Included

Themes

• mK Theme Dark: a dark VS Code workbench and code theme based on ElegantTheme, with ElegantTheme used only as the code color source. The workbench UI is a custom mK base for neutral surfaces, menus, tabs, status and title bars, settings views, and configurable highlight accents.
• mK Theme Dark Balanced Code: the same mK workbench UI with an alternate, more balanced code color palette.
• mK Theme Dark Copilot Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from Copilot Theme.
• mK Theme Dark One Dark Pro Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from One Dark Pro.
• mK Theme Dark Atom One Dark Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from Atom One Dark.
• mK Theme Dark Dracula Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from Dracula.
• mK Theme Dark VS Code 2026 Dark Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from VS Code's built-in 2026 Dark theme.
• mK Theme Dark VS Code Dark+ Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from VS Code's built-in Dark+ theme.
• mK Theme Dark VS Code Dark Modern Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from VS Code's built-in Dark Modern theme.
• mK Theme Dark VS Code Visual Studio Dark Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from VS Code's built-in Visual Studio Dark theme.
• mK Theme Dark VS Code High Contrast Code: the same mK workbench UI with code colors adapted from VS Code's built-in High Contrast dark theme.
• mK Product Icons: product icon theme derived from Fluent Icons and bundled under the mK name.
• mK File Icons: file icon theme derived from Material Icon Theme and bundled under the mK name.

Features

• mK Indent Rainbow: runtime indentation highlighting adapted from Indent Rainbow. This is an editor feature, not a VS Code theme contribution.
• mK Better Comments: comment tag highlighting adapted from Better Comments.
• mK Error Lens: inline diagnostic highlighting adapted from Error Lens.
• mK Path Intellisense: path completion for imports and file references adapted from Path Intellisense.
• mK Commit Message Editor: compact Git commit message editor inspired by Commit Message Editor.
• mK Explorer Layout: wider Explorer tree indentation and visible indent guides.
• Configurable mK highlight accent through mkTheme.highlightPreset and mkTheme.highlightColor.

Usage

Open the command palette and select:

• Preferences: Color Theme -> mK Theme Dark
• Preferences: Product Icon Theme -> mK Product Icons
• Preferences: File Icon Theme -> mK File Icons

mK Indent Rainbow activates automatically after startup. Its settings use the mkIndentRainbow.* namespace.

Additional runtime features activate automatically after startup. Their settings use mkBetterComments.*, mkErrorLens.*, mkPathIntellisense.*, and mkCommitMessageEditor.*. Explorer layout settings use mkExplorer.*.

For full title bar theming, set VS Code's Window: Title Bar Style to custom. Native OS title bars cannot be fully colored by a theme extension.

Maintenance

Keep this README current whenever a theme, icon theme, runtime feature, setting, or bundled third-party source changes. Feature-level implementation belongs under src/features, shared TypeScript helpers under src/shared, bundled static assets under assets, and maintenance scripts under tools. Keep CHANGELOG.md in descending version order, with the newest release at the top.

Theme workbench colors are maintained once in assets/themeSources/baseWorkbenchColors.json. Code color variants live under assets/themeSources/codeVariants. Run bun run theme:generate after changing theme sources so every generated theme receives the shared UI base. Upstream code theme imports must only write code variants and must not change baseWorkbenchColors.json.

Development

bun install
bun run import:all
bun run check
bun run build
bun run package

Packaged .vsix files are written to build/.

Third-Party Notices

This extension adapts and bundles third-party theme/icon assets and adapts selected runtime behavior from third-party extensions. See docs/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and NOTICE.