VS Code Extensions
SAGA Dark

SAGA Dark

by oldjobobo

Pastel dark theme for Visual Studio Code featuring an almost-black UI with soft pink, peach, mint, cyan, mauve, and lavender colors. Includes broad syntax coverage, semantic token highlighting, and themed quick pick, breadcrumbs, notifications, notebooks, testing, debugging, gutters, minimap, and settings.

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Version

0.1.9

Last updated

Apr 09, 2026

SAGA Dark is a pastel dark theme for Visual Studio Code with an almost-black UI and soft syntax colors.

It keeps the SAGA palette soft and dreamy, but extends the theme well beyond a screenshot-first palette port. The editor, quick pick, breadcrumbs, notifications, notebooks, testing and debug UI, gutters, minimap, and settings are all themed to feel consistent with the same pink, peach, mint, and cyan palette language.

Designed for developers who want:

  • a soft dark theme without washed-out syntax
  • stronger consistency across VS Code UI surfaces, not just the editor
  • broader language and semantic token coverage so real projects do not fall back to default styling

SAGA Dark preview

Why SAGA Dark

Many pastel themes look good in a single file and start breaking apart once semantic highlighting, notebooks, Git changes, quick pick, and language-specific scopes enter the picture.

SAGA Dark is tuned to stay coherent in actual work:

  • broad TextMate coverage for common languages and markup formats
  • semantic token support for symbol-aware highlighting
  • expanded UI color coverage across core VS Code surfaces
  • Saga-specific status and selection mappings so errors, warnings, diffs, and active states still read clearly

Included

  • Dark SAGA UI theme for VS Code
  • Semantic highlighting enabled by default
  • Expanded syntax highlighting coverage for Python, Rust, JSON, TOML, Markdown, Shell, CSS, HTML, YAML, and diff views
  • Themed quick pick, breadcrumbs, notifications, notebooks, testing/debug UI, gutters, minimap, and settings surfaces

Coverage

  • 474 UI color keys themed
  • 119 token color rules themed
  • 52 semantic token selectors themed
  • Semantic highlighting enabled by the theme

Palette

  • #05080a Liquorice
  • #0A0D0F Vampire Black
  • #0f1214 Charcoal
  • #141719 Asphalt
  • #ffe1e1 Misty Rose
  • #ffc2df Cotton Candy
  • #ffaecb Lavender Pink
  • #ff9fbc Pastel Magenta
  • #ffc79b Pastel Peach
  • #fff6c3 Blond
  • #baf7b5 Menthol
  • #b2fff3 Celeste
  • #dfbaff Mauve
  • #f3ceff Pale Lavender
  • #ffe2ff Pink Lace
  • #ffecff Magnolia
  • #fff6ff Snow

Install

Install from the VS Code Marketplace or from the command line:

code --install-extension oldjobobo.saga-dark

Or search for SAGA Dark in VS Code.

Use

Open the Command Palette, run Preferences: Color Theme, and select SAGA Dark.

Notes

  • The palette stays faithful to the original SAGA color system, but the token and UI mapping is tuned for daily use in real projects.
  • Status colors were adjusted so errors, warnings, selections, and Git changes remain readable instead of blending into the pastel UI.

License

Released under the MIT License.