Makinda Themes

A premium light + dark theme family with warm orange accents — shipping to 20+ editors, IDEs, terminals, and apps from a single source palette.

Features • Installation • Compatible Editors • Activate • Recommended Settings • Screenshots • Contributing • License

Features

This extension ships two complementary themes:

Makinda Light — Clean white editor with subtle gray sidebars, warm orange accents, and high-contrast syntax highlighting for long, comfortable coding sessions.
Makinda Dark — Deep #0e0e0f background with vibrant orange accents, purple types, and teal strings. 140+ token scopes and 200+ UI color definitions.

Both variants share the same brand language, so switching between them keeps your code visually consistent.

Color Palette

Element	Makinda Light	Makinda Dark
Brand Orange	`#e65800`	`#ff711a`
Functions	`#e65800`	`#ff9452`
Keywords	`#b34400`	`#ff711a`
Types / Classes	`#6b26c0`	`#a26ee2`
Strings	`#0d7377`	`#2dd4bf`
Comments	`#71717a`	`#7d8593`
Editor Background	`#ffffff`	`#0e0e0f`
Sidebar Background	`#fafafa`	`#0e0e0f`

Installation

From VS Code Marketplace

Open the Extensions sidebar: View → Extensions
Search for Makinda Themes
Click Install

From Command Line

code --install-extension makindajack.makinda-themes

Manual Installation

Download the latest .vsix from Releases
In VS Code, run Extensions: Install from VSIX... from the Command Palette and pick the file.

Compatible Editors

Makinda is generated from a single source/palette.json and ports to every major editor, IDE, terminal, and chat/notes app.

Code editors & IDEs

Editor	Format	Install
VS Code	`*.color-theme.json`	`code --install-extension makindajack.makinda-themes`
Cursor	(VS Code theme)	`cursor --install-extension makindajack.makinda-themes`
Windsurf	(Open VSX)	`windsurf --install-extension makindajack.makinda-themes`
VSCodium / code-server	(Open VSX)	`codium --install-extension makindajack.makinda-themes`
JetBrains IDEs	`.icls` + `.theme.json`	ports/jetbrains/
Sublime Text	`.sublime-color-scheme`	ports/sublime/
Zed	Zed theme JSON	ports/zed/
Neovim	Lua + Vim fallback	ports/neovim/
Xcode	`.xccolortheme` plist	ports/xcode/
Helix	TOML	ports/helix/
Visual Studio	`.vssettings`	ports/visual-studio/
Eclipse	`.epf`	ports/eclipse/
Emacs	`deftheme` `.el`	ports/emacs/
TextMate	`.tmTheme` plist	ports/textmate/
BBEdit	`.bbcolors` plist	ports/bbedit/
Nova	`.novaextension`	ports/nova/
Lapce	TOML	ports/lapce/
Notepad++	XML	ports/notepad-plus-plus/

Terminals

Terminal	Format	Path
iTerm2	`.itermcolors`	ports/iterm2/
Warp	YAML	ports/warp/
Alacritty	TOML	ports/alacritty/
Kitty	`.conf`	ports/kitty/
WezTerm	Lua	ports/wezterm/
Ghostty	config snippet	ports/ghostty/
Windows Terminal	JSON snippet	ports/windows-terminal/

Chat / notes

App	Format	Path
Slack	sidebar string	ports/slack/
Discord (BetterDiscord)	CSS	ports/discord/
Obsidian	CSS theme	ports/obsidian/

See docs/INSTALLATION.md for editor-by-editor walkthroughs and docs/IDES.md for the full status matrix.

Activate a Theme

Open the Color Theme picker:

macOS: ⌘K ⌘T
Windows / Linux: Ctrl+K Ctrl+T

Select Makinda Light or Makinda Dark.

To have VS Code switch automatically with your OS appearance, enable window.autoDetectColorScheme and set:

{
  "window.autoDetectColorScheme": true,
  "workbench.preferredLightColorTheme": "Makinda Light",
  "workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "Makinda Dark"
}

Recommended Settings

Icon Themes

Pair Makinda Themes with one of these for a complete look:

Material Product Icons by Philipp Kief
Nomo Light Icon Theme — pairs well with Makinda Light
Nomo Dark Icon Theme — pairs well with Makinda Dark

A dedicated Makinda Icons pack is in active development and will be released as a separate extension.

Font Recommendations

{
  "editor.fontFamily": "'Fira Code', 'JetBrains Mono', Menlo, Monaco, monospace",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.fontSize": 14,
  "editor.lineHeight": 1.5
}