Murad AMOLED

A minimal AMOLED black theme for Visual Studio Code & Cursor — pure #000000 UI with vivid GitHub Dark–inspired syntax colors.

Publisher: mozaddedalfeshani · Theme: Murad AMOLED · Extension ID: mozaddedalfeshani.murad-amoled

Preview

Editor background:  [#000000](https://github.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/issues/000000)
Accent / focus:     #40F0FF  (Nilkantha cyan)
Keywords:           #ff7b72
Functions:          #C084FC  (violet)
Strings:            #A8F5FF
Comments:           #64748B (italic, Nilkantha) · #6E7681 (other themes)

Included themes

True black chrome · OLED-friendly · high-contrast syntax

Features

• Pure AMOLED black (#000000) editor and workbench
• On update, clears leftover Nilkantha bird wallpaper settings from older installs
• Vivid syntax highlighting inspired by GitHub Dark
• Semantic highlighting enabled
• Tuned UI tokens (sidebar, tabs, status bar, terminal, debug)
• Works on VS Code and Cursor
• Cross-platform one-liner install (macOS · Linux · WSL · Windows)

Installation

1. Marketplace (recommended)

1. Open Extensions (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+X)
2. Search Murad AMOLED
3. Click Install
4. Activate: Cmd/Ctrl+K then Cmd/Ctrl+T → Murad AMOLED

Direct link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mozaddedalfeshani.murad-amoled

2. One command from GitHub

Downloads the latest .vsix Release and installs into VS Code.

macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/main/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/main/install.ps1 | iex

Target Cursor / both editors

# Cursor only
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --cursor

# VS Code + Cursor
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --all

# Windows — save then run
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbabilX/nodextheme/main/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1
.\install.ps1 -Target cursor   # or: -Target all

Requirements

• A GitHub Release with a .vsix asset
• Editor CLI on PATH:
  • macOS: Cmd+Shift+P → Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH
  • Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P → Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH
  • Linux: follow VS Code CLI docs

After install: Developer: Reload Window → Color Theme → Murad AMOLED

3. Install a downloaded .vsix

Quick scripts (from this repo)

./install.sh --vscode ./murad-amoled.vsix

.\install.ps1 -Target vscode -VsixPath .\murad-amoled.vsix

UI

1. Extensions → ⋯ → Install from VSIX…
2. Select murad-amoled.vsix
3. Color Theme → Murad AMOLED

CLI

code --install-extension murad-amoled.vsix --force
# Cursor:
cursor --install-extension murad-amoled.vsix --force

4. Build from source

pnpm install
pnpm install:vscode    # package + install into VS Code
pnpm install:cursor    # package + install into Cursor

Or press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host and pick Murad AMOLED.

Activate the theme

Develop / tweak colors

1. Edit a file under themes/ (e.g. murad-nilkantha-color-theme.json)
2. Rebuild & reinstall:

pnpm install:vscode

3. Reload the window to preview

Useful scripts

Ship a GitHub Release (for curl / irm install)

pnpm package
# GitHub → Releases → New release → upload murad-amoled.vsix (+ install.sh already on main)

Screenshots

Project layout

├── package.json
├── extension.js        # one-time cleanup of leftover bird bg settings
├── themes/
│   ├── murad-andhokar-color-theme.json
│   ├── amoled-yellow-era-color-theme.json
│   ├── murad-nilkantha-color-theme.json
│   └── murad-alokito-color-theme.json
├── images/
│   └── icon.png
├── install.sh          # macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash
├── install.ps1         # Windows PowerShell
├── README.md
├── CHANGELOG.md
└── LICENSE

Credits

• Inspired by GitHub Dark and AMOLED black themes
• Color & token palette from the original Muradian AMOLED theme

License

MIT © mozaddedalfeshani