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Gruber Ocean — VS Code Theme

A dark, minimal color theme for VS Code, ported from the Gruber Ocean vim theme.

Gruber Ocean Screenshot

Philosophy

Minimal highlighting — only what matters gets color:

Element	Color
Keywords	Yellow `#ffd700`
Strings	Green `#afd75f`
Functions	Cyan-Blue `#87afd7`
Types	Gray `#767676`
Comments	Brown/Orange `#d78700`
Everything else	White `#eeeeee`

Installation

From VSIX

Download the .vsix file
In VS Code: Ctrl+Shift+P → Extensions: Install from VSIX...
Select the file and reload

Manual

Copy the gruber-ocean-vscode folder to ~/.vscode/extensions/
Restart VS Code
Ctrl+Shift+P → Preferences: Color Theme → Gruber Ocean

Language Support

Includes optimized token colors for: C, Rust, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, YAML, TOML, Lua, and more.

Credits

Based on the Gruber Darker color scheme with ocean-blue function modifications by ruscito.