Carmilla

Crypt warmth for nights of code.

Cream text, mauve comments, and a choice of wine, violet or slate-blue backgrounds.

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Carmilla is a dark theme family with a gothic atmosphere and a warm syntax palette. Each flavor changes the accent and surrounding surfaces while preserving the cream foreground, mauve comments and familiar colors for types, functions and strings.

Install

Install Carmilla by muowl, then open the command palette and run Preferences: Color Theme to choose a flavor.

You can also install from the terminal:

code --install-extension muowl.carmilla

Choose your light

Version 1.7.0 includes all three flavors and the Lua icon. Choose one under Preferences: Color Theme (Ctrl+K Ctrl+T).

Preview

Carmilla

Amethyst

Moonstone

Previews are generated from the theme’s TextMate rules and a TypeScript grammar. Language servers can refine highlighting in VS Code.

Thoughtful details

• A consistent palette across the editor, sidebar, tabs, command palette, suggestions, notifications and chat.
• TextMate and semantic highlighting, plus all 16 ANSI terminal colors.
• Git decorations, diffs and merge highlights that fit the surrounding interface.
• Focus, placeholder and selected-text colors checked for contrast in each flavor.
• A declarative theme with no executable extension code.

The palette specification explains the color choices, measured contrast and known limitations. Python’s TextMate fallback gives True, False and None the same scope, so all three use Wisteria.

Named after Sheridan Le Fanu’s gothic novella Carmilla (1872).

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