Aether Dark

Aether Dark is a polished dark theme for Visual Studio Code. It keeps warm, expressive syntax while using calm cyan accents across the editor UI for a clean, focused coding experience.

Visual Studio Marketplace · Open VSX

Highlights

• Neutral charcoal backgrounds with balanced contrast
• Cyan/blue UI accents (focus, active indicators, badges, cursor)
• Warm, vivid syntax palette inspired by Ayu
• Softer borders and reduced visual noise

Install

From Visual Studio Marketplace (VS Code)

1. Open Extensions in VS Code
2. Search for Aether Dark
3. Click Install
4. Open Preferences: Color Theme and select Aether Dark

From Open VSX

1. Open your VS Code-compatible editor extensions view
2. Search for Aether Dark
3. Install and activate the theme

Marketplace Pages

• VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sbetav.aether-dark-theme
• Open VSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/sbetav/aether-dark-theme

Assets

• Marketplace icon: images/icon.png (512x512)
• Preview screenshot: images/screenshot.png (1920x1200)

Development

1. Clone this repository
2. Open it in VS Code
3. Press F5 and run Run Theme Extension
4. In the Extension Development Host, pick Aether Dark
5. Edit themes/aether-dark.json
6. Run Developer: Reload Window in the dev host to preview changes

Publish

Set your tokens first:

• VSCE_PAT for Visual Studio Marketplace
• OVSX_PAT for Open VSX

Then run:

npm install
npm run package:vscode
npm run publish:vscode
npm run publish:openvsx

Acknowledgment

Aether Dark is inspired by the excellent Ayu Theme by the Ayu Theme authors. Many palette and language-color ideas are derived from their work. Big thanks to the original creators.

License

MIT