son-dark-eight README

Eight color based theme for VS Code with primary color being cyan.

Overview

• Advanced C/C++ support
• Basic Web support (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Future support for: assembly (x86_64), C#, Python, SQL, TypeScript

Base colors

• White
  • colors: default
  • tokens: constant values, operators, quoted strings, types, punctuation
• Grey
  • colors: disabled elements, line numbers, squigglies, breadcrumbs
  • tokens: comments, invalid, namespace related
• Cyan
  • colors: active elements, selection, scrollbars, borders, links, git modified
  • tokens: variables, html attributes
• Magenta
  • colors: underused
  • tokens: not quoted string, other keywords, escape sequences
• Blue
  • colors: underused
  • tokens: support, templates
• Yellow
  • colors: active line number
  • tokens: entity, functions, overloaded operators
• Green
  • colors: git added
  • tokens: storage
• Red
  • colors: error related elements, debug icons
  • tokens: keywords, html tags

Styles

• Italics: constant values
• Bold: punctuation, language variables (this, self)
• Strikethrough: pointer access operator (e.g. ->)

Notes (for future reference)

• all

  • avoid using meta rules
  • White for constants values and const modifiers
  • White should be most common color, other colors should be used sparingly
  • Bold style for punctuation

• cxx (C/C++)

  • keyword.operator and storage.modifier should have same styles for parsing issues with templates

Color components are only this eight values (in hex): 10 20 40 60 80 A0 C0 E0 (with few exceptions).