🚀 Inspired by the Tesseract from the Marvel universe โ the glowing cosmic cube that contains the Space Stone. This theme brings that energy to your editor: deep-space surfaces lit by an electric-blue glow and a bright cyan core, across five hand-tuned variants. Optimized for Operator Mono, but it looks great with any font.
🎨 Five variants โ three dark, one light, one high-contrast
🪐 A cohesive cosmic palette across the editor, workbench, and syntax
🧪 Tested with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Markdown, and Python
Variants
Theme
Kind
Best for
Tesseract Dark
Dark
The signature look โ deep-space navy with an electric-blue glow and cyan energy core
Tesseract Void
Dark ยท OLED
Pure-black #000 surfaces; the accents glow hardest and it's easy on OLED screens
Tesseract Nebula
Dark
A cosmic violet/indigo mood with magenta and cyan accents
Tesseract Light
Light
Frost blue-white surfaces with deep-navy ink for bright rooms
Tesseract Singularity
High Contrast
Maximum legibility โ pure black, bright accents, and crisp borders
Installation
Open the Extensions sidebar in VS Code
Search for Tesseract and click Install
Open the theme picker โ cmd/ctrl + k then cmd/ctrl + t, or Code > Preferences > Color Theme
Choose Tesseract Dark, Void, Nebula, Light, or Singularity
Tesseract Singularity lives under the high contrast themes group of the picker.
Prefer the keyboard? Open Quick Open with cmd/ctrl + p and run:
ext install martian.tesseract
💡 For the full experience, install Operator Mono and enable font ligatures in your settings.
Screenshots
Tesseract Dark
Tesseract Void
Tesseract Nebula
Tesseract Light
Tesseract Singularity
Contributing
Found a scope that needs better coloring, or have an idea for another variant? Contributions are welcome โ please read the contributing guidelines.