Printing Press Cream
A light VS Code theme that feels like a small print press: solid warm ink on
flat cream paper, with the same cream colour on every panel — editor,
sidebar, tabs, terminal, status bar, title bar. No patchwork of slightly
different beiges, no washed-out grey-blue text.
Text contrast is the point: the main ink (#332E27) measures roughly
12:1 against the paper (#FCF4E3), where classic Solarized Light's
slate foreground manages only about 4:1.
Palette
| Role |
Colour |
| Paper (all surfaces) |
#FCF4E3 |
| Raised surface / hover |
#F0E5C8 |
| Selection |
#E9DCB9 |
| Ink (main text) |
#332E27 |
| Soft ink (secondary text) |
#6D675F |
| Comments |
#6F6E69 (italic) |
| Strings |
#66800B |
| Keywords |
#5E409D |
| Functions |
#205EA6 |
| Types & headings |
#AD8301 |
| Numbers & constants |
#BC5215 |
| Tags & errors |
#AF3029 |
Accent colours are the light 600-step inks from
Flexoki by Steph Ango (MIT), chosen because
they stay legible on warm paper. The integrated terminal uses the same
palette for its ANSI colours, so CLI output doesn't clash with the editor.
Install
From the Marketplace: search for Printing Press Cream, install, then
Cmd+K Cmd+T (macOS) / Ctrl+K Ctrl+T and pick Printing Press Cream.
From a .vsix file:
code --install-extension printing-press-cream-0.1.0.vsix
then select the theme the same way.
Good pairings
- Any clean mono font works. Iosevka or JetBrains Mono at 13–14px keeps the
print feel.
- Set
"workbench.iconTheme" to whatever you like — the theme deliberately
ships no opinions about icons.
Credits
