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Coding Theme

Zen Theme — Calm Light & Dark Color Theme with Pastel Syntax

Publisher: Ciro Cesar MacielThemes in package: 2

A calm color theme and file icon theme for VS Code, Cursor, VSCodium and Windsurf: a gray workbench, pastel file icons, bold keywords, five soft pastel syntax colors tuned to a measured contrast, and red, green and yellow only for errors, additions and warnings. Light and dark, free. A quiet alterna

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Full workbench mockup using this variant's colors and tokenColors.

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colors

Workbench UI color keys from the theme JSON colors map.

keyHEXRGBRGBA
activityBar.activeBorder
activityBar.background
activityBar.border
activityBar.foreground
activityBar.inactiveForeground
activityBarBadge.background
activityBarBadge.foreground
badge.background
badge.foreground
breadcrumb.activeSelectionForeground
breadcrumb.background
breadcrumb.focusForeground
breadcrumb.foreground
breadcrumbPicker.background
button.background
button.foreground
button.hoverBackground
button.secondaryBackground
button.secondaryForeground
button.secondaryHoverBackground
checkbox.background
checkbox.border
checkbox.foreground
commandCenter.background
commandCenter.border
commandCenter.foreground
debugToolBar.background
descriptionForeground
diffEditor.diagonalFill
diffEditor.insertedLineBackground
diffEditor.insertedTextBackground
diffEditor.removedLineBackground
diffEditor.removedTextBackground
disabledForeground
dropdown.background
dropdown.border
dropdown.foreground
editor.background
editor.findMatchBackground
editor.findMatchHighlightBackground
editor.findRangeHighlightBackground
editor.foreground
editor.hoverHighlightBackground
editor.inactiveSelectionBackground
editor.lineHighlightBackground
editor.lineHighlightBorder
editor.rangeHighlightBackground
editor.selectionBackground
editor.selectionHighlightBackground
editor.wordHighlightBackground
editor.wordHighlightStrongBackground
editorBracketHighlight.foreground1
editorBracketHighlight.foreground2
editorBracketHighlight.foreground3
editorBracketHighlight.foreground4
editorBracketHighlight.foreground5
editorBracketHighlight.foreground6
editorBracketHighlight.unexpectedBracket.foreground
editorBracketMatch.background
editorBracketMatch.border
editorCodeLens.foreground
editorCursor.foreground
editorError.foreground
editorGroup.border
editorGroup.dropBackground
editorGroupHeader.tabsBackground
editorGroupHeader.tabsBorder
editorGutter.addedBackground
editorGutter.background
editorGutter.deletedBackground
editorGutter.modifiedBackground
editorHint.foreground
editorHoverWidget.background
editorHoverWidget.border
editorIndentGuide.activeBackground1
editorIndentGuide.background1
editorInfo.foreground
editorInlayHint.background
editorInlayHint.foreground
editorLineNumber.activeForeground
editorLineNumber.foreground
editorLink.activeForeground
editorOverviewRuler.addedForeground
editorOverviewRuler.border
editorOverviewRuler.deletedForeground
editorOverviewRuler.errorForeground
editorOverviewRuler.modifiedForeground
editorOverviewRuler.warningForeground
editorRuler.foreground
editorStickyScroll.background
editorStickyScrollHover.background
editorSuggestWidget.background
editorSuggestWidget.border
editorSuggestWidget.foreground
editorSuggestWidget.highlightForeground
editorSuggestWidget.selectedBackground
editorSuggestWidget.selectedForeground
editorUnnecessaryCode.opacity
editorWarning.foreground
editorWhitespace.foreground
editorWidget.background
editorWidget.border
editorWidget.foreground
errorForeground
focusBorder
foreground
gitDecoration.addedResourceForeground
gitDecoration.conflictingResourceForeground
gitDecoration.deletedResourceForeground
gitDecoration.ignoredResourceForeground
gitDecoration.modifiedResourceForeground
gitDecoration.submoduleResourceForeground
gitDecoration.untrackedResourceForeground
icon.foreground
input.background
input.border
input.foreground
input.placeholderForeground
inputOption.activeBackground
inputOption.activeBorder
inputOption.activeForeground
inputValidation.errorBackground
inputValidation.errorBorder
inputValidation.infoBackground
inputValidation.infoBorder
inputValidation.warningBackground
inputValidation.warningBorder
keybindingLabel.background
keybindingLabel.border
keybindingLabel.bottomBorder
keybindingLabel.foreground
list.activeSelectionBackground
list.activeSelectionForeground
list.dropBackground
list.errorForeground
list.focusBackground
list.focusOutline
list.highlightForeground
list.hoverBackground
list.inactiveSelectionBackground
list.inactiveSelectionForeground
list.warningForeground
menu.background
menu.border
menu.foreground
menu.selectionBackground
menu.selectionForeground
menu.separatorBackground
menubar.selectionBackground
notificationCenterHeader.background
notifications.background
notifications.border
notifications.foreground
notificationToast.border
panel.background
panel.border
panelTitle.activeBorder
panelTitle.activeForeground
panelTitle.inactiveForeground
peekView.border
peekViewEditor.background
peekViewEditor.matchHighlightBackground
peekViewResult.background
peekViewResult.matchHighlightBackground
peekViewResult.selectionBackground
peekViewTitle.background
peekViewTitleDescription.foreground
peekViewTitleLabel.foreground
pickerGroup.border
pickerGroup.foreground
progressBar.background
quickInput.background
quickInput.foreground
quickInputList.focusBackground
quickInputList.focusForeground
quickInputTitle.background
sash.hoverBorder
scrollbar.shadow
scrollbarSlider.activeBackground
scrollbarSlider.background
scrollbarSlider.hoverBackground
selection.background
settings.headerForeground
settings.modifiedItemIndicator
sideBar.background
sideBar.border
sideBar.foreground
sideBarSectionHeader.background
sideBarSectionHeader.border
sideBarSectionHeader.foreground
sideBarTitle.foreground
statusBar.background
statusBar.border
statusBar.debuggingBackground
statusBar.debuggingForeground
statusBar.foreground
statusBar.noFolderBackground
statusBarItem.hoverBackground
statusBarItem.remoteBackground
statusBarItem.remoteForeground
tab.activeBackground
tab.activeForeground
tab.border
tab.hoverBackground
tab.inactiveBackground
tab.inactiveForeground
tab.unfocusedActiveForeground
tab.unfocusedInactiveForeground
terminal.ansiBlack
terminal.ansiBlue
terminal.ansiBrightBlack
terminal.ansiBrightBlue
terminal.ansiBrightCyan
terminal.ansiBrightGreen
terminal.ansiBrightMagenta
terminal.ansiBrightRed
terminal.ansiBrightWhite
terminal.ansiBrightYellow
terminal.ansiCyan
terminal.ansiGreen
terminal.ansiMagenta
terminal.ansiRed
terminal.ansiWhite
terminal.ansiYellow
terminal.background
terminal.foreground
terminal.selectionBackground
terminalCursor.foreground
textBlockQuote.background
textBlockQuote.border
textCodeBlock.background
textLink.activeForeground
textLink.foreground
textPreformat.foreground
textSeparator.foreground
titleBar.activeBackground
titleBar.activeForeground
titleBar.border
titleBar.inactiveBackground
titleBar.inactiveForeground
tree.indentGuidesStroke
widget.border
widget.shadow

tokenColors

Foregrounds this theme assigns to the token scope catalog. A rule with only a font style is skipped, and a longer matching scope wins. Italic and bold rules are not listed — the preview above shows them in the code.

scopeHEXRGBRGBA
comment
comment.block
comment.block.documentation
comment.line
constant
constant.character
constant.character.escape
constant.numeric
constant.numeric.integer
constant.numeric.float
constant.numeric.hex
constant.numeric.octal
constant.other
entity
entity.name
entity.name.class
entity.name.function
entity.name.section
entity.name.tag
entity.name.type
entity.name.type.enum
entity.name.type.interface
entity.name.type.struct
entity.other
entity.other.attribute-name
entity.other.inherited-class
invalid
invalid.deprecated
invalid.illegal
keyword
keyword.control
keyword.control.flow
keyword.operator
keyword.operator.new
keyword.operator.assignment
keyword.operator.arithmetic
keyword.operator.logical
keyword.other
markup
markup.bold
markup.changed
markup.deleted
markup.heading
markup.inline.raw
markup.inserted
markup.italic
markup.quote
markup.raw
markup.underline
markup.underline.link
meta
meta.function-call
punctuation.definition.bracket
punctuation.definition.comment
punctuation.definition.string.begin
punctuation.definition.string.end
punctuation.separator
punctuation.separator.continuation
punctuation.terminator
storage
storage.modifier
storage.type
string
string.interpolated
string.other
string.quoted
string.quoted.double
string.quoted.other
string.quoted.single
string.quoted.triple
string.regexp
string.template
string.unquoted
support
support.class
support.constant
support.function
support.type
support.type.primitive
support.type.property-name
variable
variable.function
variable.language
variable.name
variable.other
variable.other.constant
variable.other.property
variable.other.readwrite
variable.parameter