Brand New Day EV Theme

A family of dark color themes for VS Code — custom UI palettes paired with vibrant, glowing syntax highlighting. Six variants, one extension.

Variants

Variant	Palette
Purple (default)	Deep purple, glowing lilac accents
Crimson	Black with deep red accents
Neon	Synthwave — cyan and magenta on near-black
Midnight	Deep blue-black with soft blue accents
Emerald	Near-black with emerald green accents
Amber	Near-black with warm orange/gold accents

Switch between them anytime via Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P → Preferences: Color Theme.

Screenshots


Purple	Crimson
Neon	Midnight
Emerald	Amber

Installation

Via Marketplace

Search for "Brand New Day EV Theme" in the Extensions view (Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X), or run:

ext install ryanditko.brand-new-day-ev-theme

Via `.vsix` file (manual)

Download the latest .vsix from Releases.
In VS Code: Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P → Extensions: Install from VSIX...
Select the downloaded file.
Cmd+Shift+P → Preferences: Color Theme → pick the variant you want.

Development

npm install -g @vscode/vsce
vsce package

This generates the .vsix file in the project root. Each variant lives in its own file under themes/, all registered in package.json under contributes.themes.

Credits

This extension's syntax highlighting rules (tokenColors), shared across all variants, were originally derived from the open-source 1984 theme, © juanmnl, licensed under MIT (see LICENSE for the full copyright notice).
UI palettes and packaging by Ryanditko.

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