🔥 Midnight Ember

A premium dark theme with warm ember accents, teal highlights, and a rich midnight base. Built for developers who live in the dark.

🎨 Variants

Midnight Ember

The flagship variant. Deep midnight blacks with bold ember orange keywords, teal functions, and rose strings. Maximum contrast for focused coding.

Midnight Ember Soft

A gentler variant with slightly warmer backgrounds and softer pastel accents. Perfect for extended late-night sessions.

🌈 Color Palette

📦 Installation

From the Marketplace

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Midnight Ember"
4. Click Install
5. Go to Settings → Color Theme → Select Midnight Ember or Midnight Ember Soft

Manual Installation

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Copy the folder to your VS Code extensions directory:
   • macOS: ~/.vscode/extensions/
   • Linux: ~/.vscode/extensions/
   • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\
3. Restart VS Code
4. Select the theme from Settings → Color Theme

From VSIX

# Package the extension
npx -y @vscode/vsce package

# Install the VSIX file
code --install-extension midnight-ember-theme-1.0.0.vsix

🛠 Development

Testing the Theme

1. Open this project in VS Code
2. Press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host
3. In the new VS Code window, go to Color Theme and select Midnight Ember

Customizing

The theme files are located in ./themes/:

• midnight-ember-color-theme.json — Main variant
• midnight-ember-soft-color-theme.json — Soft variant

Use the Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes command (Cmd+Shift+P) to find the scope names for any code element you want to customize.

🗣 Language Support

Optimized syntax highlighting for:

• JavaScript / TypeScript (including JSX/TSX)
• Python
• Dart / Flutter
• Rust
• Go
• HTML / CSS / SCSS
• JSON / YAML / TOML
• Markdown
• SQL
• Shell / Bash
• And more via TextMate grammars!

💜 Inspiration

Born out of years of loving Shades of Purple but wanting something fresh. Midnight Ember takes the "warm in the dark" philosophy and pushes it further with:

• Warmer, more natural accent colors
• Better contrast ratios for accessibility
• Comprehensive UI coverage (every corner of VS Code is themed)
• Semantic highlighting support for modern language servers

📝 License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Waqar Ali Siyal

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Enjoy coding in the ember glow! 🔥