Purplish — GitHub Dark & Light

A more purple take on GitHub's VS Code theme.

This is a small customization of the excellent GitHub VS Code theme by GitHub / Primer. All the design and the heavy lifting belongs to the original theme — this fork only swaps out a few colors so it leans more purple.

Themes

This fork ships two themes — nothing else:

• Purplish GitHub Dark
• Purplish GitHub Light

What's different

Compared to the original GitHub theme, only a few colors are changed — everything else (syntax highlighting, most accents) stays exactly like the original:

• 🟣 Primary buttons are purple instead of green — the green action buttons (Comment, Merge, Checkout, etc.) now use #8345ff. (both themes)
• 🟣 Purple focus ring — focused inputs and the Command Palette use the same purple #8345ff. (both themes)
• 🪸 Coral for uncommitted files — untracked/added files in the Explorer and Source Control are #f78166 instead of green. (both themes)
• 🌑 Darker backgrounds — in the dark theme the editor is #0d0d0d and the Explorer sidebar is #080808 (a touch darker). (dark theme only)

The light theme keeps its light backgrounds; it just gets the purple/coral accents on top.

Credits

Full credit goes to the original theme and its authors:

• Original theme: primer/github-vscode-theme
• License: MIT (see LICENSE)

This fork exists purely to make the theme a bit more purple for personal taste.

Build it yourself

The theme files in themes/ are generated from the sources in src/:

1. Install the dependencies with npm install (or yarn).
2. Run npm run build to regenerate the themes.
3. Run npm run package to build an installable .vsix into build/.
4. Press F5 in VS Code to open a window with the extension loaded, then pick the Purplish GitHub Dark (or Light) theme.

The color customizations live in src/colors.js, and the icon is generated by scripts/generate-icon.py.