https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive-theme
A WIP theme for VS Code. Based on Night Owl, but with chiller colors & tweaked italics.
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive-theme
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A WIP theme for VS Code. Based on Night Owl, but with chiller colors & tweaked italics.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive-theme
- Owner: arrowtype
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-04-24T21:02:08.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-21T15:58:13.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-05T21:47:23.744Z (9 months ago)
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.89 MB
- Stars: 15
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Recursive theme for VS Code
Made especially for [Recursive Mono](https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive) (or any other code font with nice italics).
## Installation
1. Download this repo as a zip
2. Add the entire folder to `~/.vscode/extensions/`
## Current styling
Note: these screenshots also make use of [Bracket Pair Colorizer](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer).
## How to start your own theme
**Easiest method**
https://themer.dev/
**More control**
1. duplicate a theme you like within `~/.vscode/extensions/`
2. update package.json
3. update colors in `themes/________theme.json`
## How to determine the type of a given token
It’s critical to be able to determine type of a given token in order to become efficient in theming. Luckily, it's easy!
> Trigger the scope inspector from the Command Palette with the `Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes` [source](https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide#scope-inspector)