Flavors
| Flavor |
Colors |
For |
| Nephrite Forest |
 |
Deep and dark, for late nights |
| Nephrite Jade |
 |
Dark with more green, for long days |
| Nephrite Mint |
 |
Light and airy, for daylight |
Previews
Install
- Open the Extensions view (
Ctrl+Shift+X, or Cmd+Shift+X on macOS).
- Search for Nephrite and click Install.
- Open the theme picker with
Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (Cmd+K Cmd+T) and choose a flavor.
Nephrite is on the Visual Studio Marketplace and on Open VSX, so the same steps work in VSCodium, Cursor and other editors based on VS Code.
Manually
Download the .vsix from the releases, then run Extensions: Install from VSIX... from the command palette.
What's themed
- The whole workbench: editor, tabs, side bar, activity bar, panels, menus, notifications, diff and merge views, and source control.
- Syntax highlighting by role, following the palette's porting guide: keywords in amethyst, strings in jade, functions in sapphire, types in citrine, numbers in carnelian, properties in lagoon.
- Semantic highlighting for languages that support it, such as TypeScript, Python and Rust.
- The integrated terminal, with all 16 ANSI colors from the palette.
Every text color keeps at least 4.4:1 contrast against its background.
Customizing
Override any color in your settings.json for one flavor only:
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"[Nephrite Forest]": {
"editor.lineHighlightBackground": "#19282080"
}
}
Development
The themes in themes/ are generated, so don't edit them by hand. To pick up palette changes:
npm run sync # download the latest palette.json
npm run build # regenerate the three themes
Press F5 in VS Code to open an Extension Development Host with the themes loaded. To package and publish:
npm run package # builds and creates nephrite-<version>.vsix
npx @vscode/vsce publish # VS Code Marketplace
npx ovsx publish *.vsix # Open VSX
Node 18 or newer, no dependencies.
Contributing
Found a color that clashes, low contrast or a language that looks off? Open an issue with a screenshot and the language. For how Nephrite ports are built and reviewed, see the contributing guide.
Thanks
Created and maintained by @ingfranciscastillo. Contributors will be listed here as the community grows.
More Nephrite
Nephrite is also available for Chrome and Firefox. See every app at getnephrite.dev/ports.
