Monochrome Dew

A dark VS Code theme that extends Monochrome Dark with soft blue, pink, and gold accents — like morning dew on a gray stone.

Preview

Design

Four color families on a uniform near-black base (#111113):

Each hue family shares one lightness ramp (faint → dim → main → bright, 28–45% saturation), so all three read at equal visual weight — softly colored, never neon. Errors use an alarm pink (#db7698), a higher-saturation member of the data family.

Readable neutral text uses stronger contrast (#7c7c7c for ordinary variables and #5f7695 for comments), while punctuation and markup remain deliberately dim. Control-flow and structural declaration keywords are bold in C#, C++, Rust, and Python. Type, callable, and precisely identified constant names are bold only at their declaration or definition.

Language Support

Fine-grained scope rules and semantic token colors for:

• C# — LINQ, attributes, XML doc comments, access modifier tiers
• C++ — templates, constexpr hierarchy, operator overloads, preprocessor
• Rust — traits, lifetimes, macros, unsafe, mutable variable distinction
• Python — decorators, f-strings, docstrings, self/cls, type hints
• Markdown — H1-H6 gold hierarchy, dimmed markers
• JSON / TOML / YAML — key vs. value separation
• HTML / CSS — tag/attribute/property tiers

Installation

VS Code Marketplace

Extensions panel → search Monochrome Dew → Install.

Open VSX (Cursor, VSCodium, Gitpod)

ovsx install odradekk.monochrome-dew

Manual (.vsix)

Download from Releases:

code --install-extension monochrome-dew-1.2.0.vsix

Recommended Settings

{
    "editor.fontFamily": "'Iosevka', 'JetBrains Mono', monospace",
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": false,
    "editor.guides.bracketPairs": false,
    "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true
}

Credits

Built on the shoulders of:

• Monochrome — base UI palette and color philosophy
• eppz! Code — C# scope matching patterns

Not affiliated with or endorsed by either project.

License

MIT © odradekk