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A film-noir theme for VS Code. Silver greys, one red, one lamp-gold. Free to use, with no account required.
Silver and shadow, one red, one lamp — a film-noir theme for VS Code.
Almost everything on this screen is a step of grey, which is the point: structure reads by value, the way it does on a black and white print. Calls are the brightest white on the page, and plain text sits a full step beneath them.
Colour is rationed to what a noir frame would allow: a red for keywords, a lamp-gold for types, a faded rose for numbers, and a cold moonlight grey-blue for strings so they never blur into the comments. For people who find every other theme too loud.
| role | colour | contrast |
|---|---|---|
keyword, storage, this | #E8574F | 5.4:1 · italic |
| function, method | #FFFFFF | 19.2:1 |
| type, class, interface | #E2C688 | 11.6:1 |
| string | #A9BCCD | 9.8:1 |
| number, constant | #D9958C | 7.9:1 |
| property | #B8B2A7 | 9.1:1 |
| annotation, decorator | #B8A1C9 | 8.2:1 · italic |
| variable | #C9C5BE | 11.1:1 |
| parameter | #A8A49D | 7.7:1 · italic |
| comment | #8C8983 | 5.5:1 · italic |
Comments, keywords, storage, this, parameters, annotations and attributes are the things you skim past or read as scaffolding. Slanting them separates them without spending another colour — which matters more than usual in a theme that has almost none to spend.
tool/build_themes.py refuses to write the theme if any syntax colour, UI label or terminal colour falls below 4.5:1 on its own background, or if two roles a reader must tell apart sit too close together. The lowest here is the escape colour at 5.39:1.
A theme cannot set your font — editor.fontFamily is a user setting. The italics are designed around Victor Mono, whose italic is cursive, but any monospace face with a real italic works:
"editor.fontFamily": "Victor Mono, JetBrains Mono, monospace",
"editor.fontSize": 15,
"editor.lineHeight": 1.7
Six themes, each a different screen or medium, built the same way: one palette, contrast measured at build time, nothing below 4.5:1.
| theme | |
|---|---|
| ds_retro | green CRT with colour sparks |
| ds_amber | amber phosphor, warm and blue-free |
| ds_synthwave | neon on deep indigo |
| ds_paper | ink on warm paper — the light one |
| ds_blueprint | chalk lines on a navy drawing sheet |
| ds_noir | silver greys, one red, one gold — this one |
MIT licensed, source on GitHub, free like everything else here.