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A light theme for VS Code. Ink on warm paper, for daylight. Free to use, with no account required.
Ink on warm stock, for daylight — the light theme of the family.
For daylight, bright rooms and projectors. The ground is warm paper rather than white, which takes the glare off without going grey.
On a light ground every syntax colour has to be dark, so this is not a dark theme turned inside out. It is built from inks: near-black for text, fountain-pen blue for calls, red pencil for keywords, a rubber-stamp teal for types, olive for strings and umber for numbers. The terminal follows the same rule — its bright colours are a second ink at the same darkness, because lighter would wash out.
| role | colour | contrast |
|---|---|---|
keyword, storage, this | #B02A20 | 5.8:1 · italic |
| function, method | #1D5FAE | 5.6:1 |
| type, class, interface | #0B7466 | 5.0:1 |
| string | #4F7412 | 4.8:1 |
| number, constant | #955300 | 5.3:1 |
| property | #3B5579 | 6.7:1 |
| annotation, decorator | #7A3A9C | 6.3:1 · italic |
| variable | #2A251F | 13.4:1 |
| parameter | #463F35 | 9.1:1 · italic |
| comment | #6F6553 | 5.0:1 · 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.
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. Light themes are where that check earns its keep: the lowest here is the string colour at 4.82:1.
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, this one |
| ds_blueprint | chalk lines on a navy drawing sheet |
| ds_noir | silver greys, one red, one gold |
MIT licensed, source on GitHub, free like everything else here.