A curated set of VS Code color themes, from cinematic dark & light palettes to a warm amber terminal aesthetic. Each theme is a complete design system: editor, syntax, semantic tokens, UI chrome, and integrated terminal.
Install
From VS Code: open Quick Open (Ctrl/Cmd+P) and run
ext install AxelOllivier.ambience-themes
Or grab it from the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX.
Then pick one with Ctrl/Cmd+K Ctrl/Cmd+T → Ambience: …
Themes
Dark
Amber — warm amber · author's desktop OS
Blade Runner — Blade Runner 2049 · Villeneuve, 2017
Dune — Villeneuve, 2021
Ghost in the Shell — Oshii, 1995
Princess Mononoke — Miyazaki, 1997
The Empire Strikes Back — Star Wars · Kershner, 1980
OLED — pure-black, OLED-optimised
Cowboy Bebop — Watanabe, 1998
Annihilation — Garland, 2018
Arrival — Villeneuve, 2016
Light
Ghost in the Shell — Day — the light counterpart
Her — Jonze, 2013
Paper — calm ink-on-paper
Features
- 13 complete themes — dark and light, each tuned end to end.
- Semantic highlighting — colours follow your language server, not just TextMate scopes.
- Integrated terminal — every theme styles the 16 ANSI colours, not only the editor.
- Considered chrome — activity bar, tabs, lists, git decorations, diffs, brackets and minimap all themed.
- Tuned editor defaults — some themes ship a matching font & cursor (e.g. Amber → JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, Ghost in the Shell → IBM Plex Mono). Override them anytime by setting your own
editor.fontFamilyin settings.
License
Released under the GNU GPL v3.0. See NOTICE for the
copyright scope and redistribution obligations. Referenced film/anime titles are
trademarks of their respective owners; their use in theme labels is editorial and
implies no affiliation or endorsement.