An opinionated, more minimal take on Base16 Default Dark and Light themes for VS Code.
This extension provides the following themes:
- Base16 Default Dark
- Base16 Default Light
Third-party Extension Support
The themes also provide palette-aligned colours for the following third-party extensions:
- Error Lens - inline error, warning, information, and hint decorations, including line and message backgrounds and status bar indicators.
- SQLTools - current-query highlighting and outline colours.
Development
Install the development dependencies once:
npm install
Fast iteration
Open this repository in VS Code or Cursor and press F5 to start an Extension Development Host. Then use Preferences: Color Theme to select either theme. Changes to the theme files are applied live in the development host.
Local test drive
To install the current working tree into Cursor without publishing or changing the extension version:
npm run install:cursor
For VS Code, use:
npm run install:vscode
These commands build base16-default-themes-local.vsix and force-install it over the currently installed copy. Reload the editor window after each install. Installing from a VSIX disables automatic updates for that extension, so the local build will remain installed during a longer test drive.
To return to the public Cursor release, uninstall the local copy and reinstall by extension ID:
cursor --uninstall-extension ddnomad.vscode-base16-default-themes
cursor --install-extension ddnomad.vscode-base16-default-themes
To create a VSIX package locally:
npm run package:local
Release
Releases are built automatically when a semver tag is pushed. The GitHub Actions workflow validates the tag, checks that it matches package.json, packages a .vsix, and attaches it to a GitHub Release.
- Bump
versioninpackage.json. - Move entries from
[Unreleased]to a new version section inCHANGELOG.md. - Commit and push to
main. - Tag the release (the tag must match
package.json, with avprefix):
git tag vX.X.X
git push origin vX.X.X
The workflow runs on tags matching v*.*.* (for example v0.1.0 or v1.0.0-beta.1). If the tag is not valid semver, or its version does not match package.json, the release fails.
To publish to the VS Code Marketplace:
vsce login ddnomad
vsce publish
Attribution
The source themes are derived from tinted-theming/tinted-vscode at commit 9b2f6345e65e243b951ae01f8e6918dfd7163eae:
The Base16 Default scheme is by Chris Kempson. Tinted VSCode is distributed under the MIT License; its copyright notices are retained in this repository's license.