✨ Overview

Carbon Candy delivers a family of dark themes blending deep carbon tones with vivid candy-style highlights — pink, purple, gradients, and more.

Built on the elegance of Oxocarbon, this pack enhances syntax clarity while adding personality through energetic and playful color contrasts.

From refined anthracite to expressive neon palettes, Carbon Candy offers a sweet selection of moods for every developer.

🎨 Theme Variants Included

🖤 Core Dark Variants

• Anthracite — Deep slate gray foundation
• Dark — Rich charcoal base
• Graphene — Balanced carbon black with vibrant accents

🌈 Graphene Gradient Variants

Smooth, carbon-inspired multi-tone transitions:

• Graphene Gradient v1 — Subtle teal-to-blue fade
• Graphene Gradient v2 — Purple-to-pink gradient flow
• Graphene Gradient v3 — Cool cyan progression
• Graphene Gradient v4 — Warm amber-to-orange blend

🍬 Graphene Solid Candy Colors

Punchy, vibrant, and high-contrast variants:

• Pink — Hot magenta accents on deep carbon
• Purple — Royal violet highlights on dark base
• Bee — Bumblebee yellow accents on dark base

✨ Minimalist & Focus Variants

Clean, borderless designs for maximum clarity:

• Palenight — Classic purple-tinted dark theme with cyan foreground
• Carbon — Deep focus theme with neutral gray palette
• Obsidian — Ultra-minimalist near-black with fully transparent borders
• Aurora — Crisp, clean variant with teal accents and excellent readability

🔲 Thin Light-Gray Bordered Variants

For users who want clearer visual separation between UI regions, thin light-gray bordered variants add a subtle 1px-style border around panels, the activity/side bar, editor groups, tabs and other UI surfaces.

• carbon-candy-dark (thin-border) — Dark theme with thin light-gray borders
• carbon-candy-carbon (thin-border) — Carbon variant with thin light-gray borders
• carbon-candy-graphene (thin-border) — Graphene variant with thin light-gray borders
• carbon-candy-aurora (thin-border) — Aurora variant with thin light-gray borders

These variants do not modify original themes; they are additional theme files you can select from the Color Theme picker.

📦 Installation

1. Open Extensions in VS Code
2. Search for “Carbon Candy”
3. Click Install
4. Open the Command Palette → “Preferences: Color Theme”
5. Choose your favorite Carbon Candy variant
6. Enjoy the neon-sweet darkness 🍬✨

🛠️ Why Choose Carbon Candy?

• 14 unique theme variants to match any preference
• Deep, eye-friendly dark backgrounds (ranging from near-black to charcoal)
• Bright neon candy accents for excellent syntax visibility
• Visually striking contrast without sacrificing readability
• Multiple aesthetic moods:
  • Classic — Anthracite, Dark, Graphene
  • Gradient — Smooth multi-tone transitions (v1–v4)
  • Playful — Pink and Purple with candy-style pops
  • Minimalist — Palenight, Carbon, Obsidian, Aurora with borderless design
• Optimized for:
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • JSON
  • Markdown
  • CSS / HTML
  • and more
• Compatible with:
  • VS Code
  • Antigravity

Color Palette Highlights

• Backgrounds: #000000 to #292D3E (pure black to purple-tinted)
• Foregrounds: #D4D4D4 to #EEFFFF (neutral to cyan-white)
• Syntax Tokens: Vibrant candy colors
  • Blues: #82AAFF
  • Greens: #C3E88D
  • Reds: #f07178
  • Magentas: #C792EA
  • Yellows: #FFCB6B
  • Cyans: #89DDFF
  • Oranges: #F78C6C

🖼️ Screenshots

Carbon Candy Pink

Carbon Candy Purple

Many combinations

📄 Changelog

See the full changelog in CHANGELOG.md.

🔖 License

This project is released under the MIT License.
See LICENSE.

Credits & Attributions

Carbon Candy's file icons and product icons are inspired by and partially derived from open-source resources:

• Symbol Icons — https://github.com/miguelsolorio/vscode-symbols
• Oxocarbon-5 — https://github.com/DaKili/oxocarbon-5
• Carbon Product Icons (tweaked) — https://github.com/yttriumz/vscode-icons-carbon-tweaked
• Additional SVG assets adapted and recolored for Carbon Candy

All referenced materials are used under their respective open-source licenses.
Special thanks to the authors and contributors of these projects for their excellent work.