Zen Garden

Zen Garden

A quiet VS Code theme. Pastel syntax and warm maize text on deep Oxford blue, with nothing on screen competing for your attention.

Install in VS Code View on Marketplace

Free. The first button opens VS Code on this computer.

Drawn with the theme's own colours, taken from version 0.0.4 of the theme file.

Thirteen colours, all of them soft

The palette is named after what the colours look like, from Maize to Sea Nymph. Select a colour to copy its hex code.

Made for long sessions

Warm text, not white

Body text is maize on Oxford blue. It is easier on the eyes over a long day than white on black.

Comments that recede

Comments are set in muted pink italics, so the code stays in front and the notes stay available.

One colour per idea

Mauve for keywords, blue for functions, cranberry for variables, tacao for classes. The mapping stays the same across languages.

Tuned for many languages

Dedicated rules for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Java, C++, Haskell, CSS, SCSS and Markdown.

Install it three ways

From this page

Select Install in VS Code. VS Code opens on the theme's page; choose Install.

From inside VS Code

Press Ctrl + P (Cmd + P on macOS), paste this and press Enter.

ext install talha2k.zen-garden
From a terminal

Useful for dotfiles and setup scripts.

code --install-extension talha2k.zen-garden

Then press Ctrl + K, Ctrl + T and choose Zen Garden.

Version0.0.4NeedsVS Code 1.96 or newerLicenceGPL-3.0

Want the opposite?

Neo Brutal is a light theme with black borders, hot pink and lime. It is not calm.

See Neo Brutal