silent-writing-theme

A silenced theme in monochrome tones palette.

Inspiration

I was fond of a basic scheme with a black background and white text. This colour combination felt simplistic yet elegant, which made me curious to try adapting it for my coding environment.

I have tried several existing solutions, none of which felt quite right. There were still some elements that were either eye-razoring or otherwise distracting from a thought process, which realistically is the only thing that matters when writing code. I could just start coding in terminals exclusively; but I didn't want to leave VSCode just yet.

This version of white(-ish)-on-black theme is intended to be balanced. I thought maybe my bland taste in colours might be shared by someone, so I decided to make it publicly available for everyone.

Availability

This colour theme is available in Microsoft's Marketplace as well as GitHub Releases.

Installation

IDE (recommended)

In the Extensions menu of your VSCode installation search for "Silent Writing Theme" extension. Once found, click the "Install" button.

VSIX

You can download a .vsix file from the release page and install it directly.

Below is an example of doing so via a command line:

code --install-extentions <path_to_vsix_file>

For VSCodium, use codium command instead.

Git (for Development and Testing)

In case you want to modify this theme yourself, you can copy it as a git repository:

git clone https://github.com/seppzer0/silent-writing-theme ~/.vscode/extensions/silent-writing-theme

For VSCodium, use ~/.vscode-oss/extensions/silent-writing-theme path instead.

Acknowledgments

• obsidian-minimal: Obsidian theme inspiring the idea;
• vscode-pitch-black-theme: Starting base of the project;
• vscode-hundred-oceans-theme: Example of blue-ish darkness in silenced tones.

License

MIT