A vivid colour scheme with a pink accent, in both light and dark variants. Includes editor/syntax highlighting as well as full IDE and workbench theming.
⭐ New: The theme now has a warm variant of the dark theme. This variant was heavily inspired by the colour palette of Gruvbox, but with a number of tweaks to make it more readable and to support the larger number of syntax colours this theme employs.
Editing a markdown file.
Debugging an application.
Configuring some settings.
Viewing a git diff.
Comparisons between the
dark
anddark-warm
variants.
This theme supports both 'Semantic' and 'Textmate' highlighting, so it should work well with any langauge extension. More specifically however, this theme has been hand-tweaked and tested on:
This theme also supports styling for these extensions:
⚠ VS Code v1.66 (April 2022) changed a default setting which affects the colours in the terminal. The Minimum Contrast Ratio (terminal.integrated.minimumContrastRatio
) modifies the colours in the terminal to increase the contrast ratios and improve readability of certain colours. By default, this is set to a value of 4.5
which has a slight effect on the colours of this theme. If you wish to disable this feature, you can set the setting to a value of 1
instead.
This theme, unlike many others, takes full advantage of semantic scopes that each language extension provides. This allows the theme to suit its appearance to the specific language and highlight/underline/embolden syntax that otherwise would not stand out in other themes. Here are some of the things which stand out in this theme:
See highlighting examples here.
?
operator is coloured like a keyword.{x:?}
) are distinctly coloured.See highlighting examples here.
See highlighting examples here.
-eq
and -not
, are coloured like a keyword.See highlighting examples here.
See highlighting examples here.
See highlighting examples here.
{...}
are distinctly coloured and emboldened.See highlighting examples here.
For Markdown, XML, Json, Yaml, Toml, INI and Bnf, see highlighting examples here.
This theme has a number of configuration options which make it easy to tweak the theme to your liking. See Settings > Extensions > Pink Candy Theme for a full list of options.
See Configuration.md for a visual illustration of all of the options.
There is also a Pink Candy: Restore default configuration
command which resets all of the options back to their defaults.
⚠ Note: Because of a limitation of VS Code, the window must be reloaded in order to see the effects of a change to a theme. A notification will pop-up whenever a change is detected to prompt you.
See Overriding_Syntax.md for a step-by-step guide on how to override syntax highlighting styles to your liking.
The Git Graph and Todo Tree extensions do not provide themable colours. As of the time of this writing, if you want these extensions to fit in with this theme, go to Extensions.md and follow the instructions. I am in the process of creating a pull request to add themable colour support to the Git Graph extension, so hopefully in the future this workaround will not be necessary.
I have tested this theme on languages I am proficient in, and I hope that you will find the syntax highlighting in these languages pleasing. However for many languages, I am not aware of their intricacies and I may not have the right sense for how the syntax should look.
If something looks off in a language you're using, feel free to open an Issue so that we can improve it for everyone.
This project is licensed under the MIT license - see LICENSE for details.