✨ Comments and editor selection colours have been updated to meet WCAG AA standards.

A professional theme with hand-picked & bold colours for your VS Code editor and terminal. The theme is heavily inspired by the Pantone colour of the year 2018 and the Outrun aesthetics. However, colours are on the pastel side to help provide contrast and highlight what is essential. Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with colorblindness and in low-light circumstances.
A FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) project developed by Tania Allard.
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✨ If you wish to disable italics, there is now a no-italic theme available. You will have access to both; select Pitaya Smoothie No Italics as your colour theme.

Installation

1. Install Visual Studio Code
2. Open the extensions' sidebar on Visual Studio Code
3. Search for Pitaya Smoothie
4. Click Install to install it.
5. Click Reload to reload your editor.
6. Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Pitaya Smoothie

Pitaya Smoothie Syntax Colours

Outrun aesthetics profoundly inspires this theme. The colour choices for the theme were made also taking into consideration accessibility for those users with colourblindness. By default, the theme is suitable for multiple types of colourblindness - no settings tweaking required.

The theme consists of a reasonably dark background and popping contrast colours. I also made decisions to allow for meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and optimal colour-popping ✨.

USAGE	COLOUR HEX CODE
Background	#181036
Foreground	#fefeff
Comment	#8786ac
Keyword	#f26196
String	#7998F2
Number	#f3907e
Built-in constant	#CAF884
Constant	#A267F5
Other	#66E9EC
Diff deleted	#FF6E9C
Diff inserted	#18c1c4
Diff changed	#ffe46b

UI elements colours

UI ELEMENT	HEX CODES
Activity bar background	#181036
Activity bar foreground	#7A76C2
Activity bar foreground	#181036
Sidebar background	#130C29
Sidebar section header background	#181036
Sidebar section header foreground	#7d79d1
Sidebar section header foreground	#18c0c4
Deletion highlights	#ff6e9c98
Addition highlights	#18c1c4a6
Modified highlights	#AD70FC46

Snapshots

✨ Using bracket-style colorizer 👆🏼✨

Accessibility

Colourblindness

Accessibility was kept close in mind when designing this theme. The colours were chosen such that they would be accessible to folks with colourblindness.

Colour contrast

Additionally, all the colours used in the theme are compliant with WCAG 2.1 standards.

Background Text	default foreground #FEFEFF	comments #8786AC	#F26196	#7998F2	#F3907E	#CAF884	#66E9EC	#B07AFC	diff-changed #FFE46B	diff-inserted #18C1C4	diff-deleted #FF6E9C
#181036	Text AAA 17.8	Text AA 5.1	Text AA 5.9	Text AA 6.5	Text AAA 7.8	Text AAA 14.8	Text AAA 12.3	Text AA 6	Text AAA 14.2	Text AAA 8.1	Text AA 6.8
selection and highlight #231458	Text AAA 15.8	Text AA 4.6	Text AA 5.2	Text AA 5.7	Text AA 6.9	Text AAA 13.1	Text AAA 11	Text AA 5.3	Text AAA 12.6	Text AAA 7.2	Text AA 6
AAA Pass, AAA (7+) AA Pass, AA (4.5+) AA18 Pass, Large Text Only (3+) DNP Does Not Pass About WCAG 2.0 contrast

See the persisent HTML contract grid online

Contributing

🚧 This project is always a work in progress, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to collaborate in it. 🚧

Everyone should follow our code of conduct and to check out our contributing guidelines for more information on how to get started.

Preferences shown in the previews

The font in the previews is Fira Code. Editor settings to activate font ligatures:

"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,

The preview image for the Python syntax is using Bracket Pair Colorizer, a cool extension that highlights matching brackets. Using this extension can help reduce unwanted errors.

I defined the following colours in my settings.json:

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colors": [
 "#f18fac", // soft pink
 "#facd49", // golden
 "#c56cf0", // bright lilac
 "#f85e9f" // hot pink
 ]

Pitaya Smoothie in other places

You can find Pitaya Smoothie in the following places:

• ✨ Iterm theme https://github.com/trallard/pitaya-smoothie-iterm/tree/main

• ✨ Slack theme - if you want to match your VS Code theme and your Slack theme head to preferences -> themes in Slack and paste the following colours: #181036,#27264D,#251954,#66E9EC,#27264D,#ABA9DB,#AD70FC,#FF6E9C
  

  • The colours included are: #181036 #27264d #251954 #66e9ec #ABA9DB #ad70fc #ff6e9c

• ✨ Matplotlib theme - now your plots can have a Pitaya Smoothie look (dark and light themes included). Developed by @dhaitz - check it out at https://github.com/dhaitz/matplotlib-stylesheets.

If you want to port Pitaya Smoothie to other places let us know and we'll add a link to your port and add you to our contributors list ✨💜

License

Licensed as BSD-3 ⓒ Tania Allard.

Attributions

• Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com and adapted to match the theme's colours.

• The logo font is Attractype Reborn from Garisman Studio.

• Deeply inspired and guided by Sarah Dresner's Night Owl and this fantastic guide they wrote.