Canonical Themes

Popular color themes for VS Code on neutral, tint-free UI chrome.

100% faithfully rebuilt from original palettes
Full 16-color ANSI terminal mapping per theme
Border contrast calibrated to 1.2 (GitHub Primer's standard)
WCAG 2.1 AA variants with contrast calibrated to 4.5:1 for text and 3.0:1 for comments
No bold or italic tokens

Themes

Theme	Base
Atom One Light	Light with neutral chrome
Atom One Light (Dark Header)	Light editor, dark title/activity bar
Atom One Dark	Dark with subtle cool-blue tint
Dracula Plus	Dracula syntax on neutral black
Catppuccin Latte	Catppuccin pastels on neutral white
Catppuccin Latte (Dark Header)	Light editor, dark title/activity bar
Catppuccin Mocha	Catppuccin pastels on neutral black
Alabaster Dark	Minimal highlighting (comments, strings, constants, definitions)
Alabaster Dark+	Alabaster palette with full syntax coverage
Tango Dark	Tango terminal palette adapted for code

Each theme above has a (WCAG 2.1 AA) variant with adjusted colors.

Search "Canonical Themes" in the VS Code extensions marketplace, or install from VSIX:

code --install-extension canonical-themes-0.0.1.vsix

Color palettes adapted from:

These themes are independent interpretations and are not official ports or affiliated with the original projects.

bun install
bun run build        # Generate theme JSON files
bun run build:watch  # Rebuild on change
bun run lint         # Check contrast ratios