zakj / plastic

A simple Visual Studio Code theme.

Plastic

A simple syntax and UI theme for Visual Studio Code.

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Notable features

• Dark UI elements for all-day coding.
• Small colour palette to avoid visual overload.
• Additional deprioritised-punctuation theme; concentrate on the content.

Colours

Inspired by Atom's One Dark theme, yet simpler and darker.

Colour names provided by Chirag Mehta's fantastic Name That Colour website.

Syntax

• Shuttle Gray #5c6370 - Comments
• Whiskey #d19a66 - Functions
• Sunglo #e06c75 - Keywords
• Fountain Blue #56b6c2 - Primitives
• Cadet Blue #abb2bf - Punctuation
• Cornflower Blue #61afef - Storage
• Olivine #98c379 - Strings
• Harvest Gold #e5c07b - Tags
• Iron #D2D6db - Variables

UI

• Sunglo #e06c75 - Primary: buttons, activity-bar badge
• Cornflower Blue #61afef - Secondary: find highlight, bracket match etc.
• Rob Roy #E9D16C - Warning: squiggly underlines, find match errors etc.
• Valencia #D74E42 - Error: squiggly underlines, find match errors etc.
• Bunker #080A0F - Borders: borders that separate the panels, sidebars, tabs etc.
• Shark #21252b - Background: editor, titlebar, and activity bar background
• Woodsmoke #181A1F - Panels: sidebar, terminal, inactive tabs etc.
• Shuttle Gray #5F6672 - Text Subtle: line numbers, muted items
• Cadet Blue #A9B2C3 - Text
• Iron #D4D7D9 - Text Active: active tab, active line number, active list text etc.
• Cadet Blue (1A opacity) #A9B2C31A - Highlight: ui flourishes: whitespace, indent guide, ruler, line highlight
• Cadet Blue (33 opacity) #A9B2C333 - Highlight Active: active indent guide, selection, search match
• Iron #D4D7D9 - Highlight Border: search match borders
• Olivine #98C379 - Git Untracked
• Whiskey #D19A66 - Git Modified
• Sunglo #E06C75 - Git Deleted

Contribute

Themes can always be improved and tweaked so please feel free to log issues and send pull requests. However, please keep in mind that this theme strives to remain simple and language agnostic; for example, please do not ask for blah.blah.php or blah.blah.c scopes to be added. Also, and this is purely personal, I'm a JavaScript developer and therefore anything that alters the colours for the JavaScript language will receive much more scrutiny before being merged in.

Clone the repository to .vscode/extenstions/(remember to remove any other installed versions of Plastic), run yarn to install dependencies, and yarn docs to serve the documentation page.

Use Microsoft's theme color reference for UI theming help.

You'll notice that the syntax is grouped by colour instead of scope. I find this much nicer to maintain.

Happy hacking :)

License

MIT

Development

The themes are created using a generator. There are two main files for this:

theme-builder/theme.yaml

This contains the colour palette and their associated hex values. From here on, you use the colour names for each variable. There are then groups of variables for terminal, syntax, and UI.

theme-builder/config.yaml.

If you are only changing colours, you shouldn't need to edit this file. This is where the theme scopes are associated to the variables in the previous file; when VSCode updates bring new themeable items, they are added here.

Build

Install the dependencies using Yarn:

yarn

Then compile the theme files to the themes folder using:

yarn build-vscode