🐢 Turtle Glasses Theme

Flavours for real eye care 👓

A carefully crafted color theme for Visual Studio Code and VSCodium, designed with eye comfort in mind. Inspired by the calmness of turtles and the clarity of well-made glasses.

🖼️ Previews

✨ Features

• 🌙 Dark & Light flavours — choose what suits your environment
• 🎨 Carefully selected palette — colors that are easy on the eyes
• 🔍 High contrast where it matters — code is always readable
• 🧠 Semantic highlighting — smarter syntax coloring via standard VS Code token types
• 🎯 Complete UI coverage — editor, terminal, breadcrumbs, settings, notifications, peek view, merge editor and more
• 🐢 Turtle-approved — tested for long coding sessions

📦 Installation

VSCodium & open-source forks (Open VSX)

The theme is published on Open VSX, the default extension registry for VSCodium and other open-source VS Code forks.

1. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X).
2. Search for Turtle Glasses Theme.
3. Click Install.
4. Press Ctrl+K Ctrl+T and select Turtle Glasses Dark or Turtle Glasses Light.

Visual Studio Code (manual VSIX)

The theme is not yet available on the Visual Studio Marketplace. For VS Code, install the VSIX manually:

1. Download the latest .vsix from the GitHub Releases page.
2. Open VS Code → Extensions → ... menu → Install from VSIX....
3. Select the file and reload the window.

From source

git clone https://github.com/SbiDev-447/TurtleGlassesVSCode.git
cd TurtleGlassesVSCode
pnpm install
pnpm run package   # produces turtle-glasses-theme.vsix

🎨 Palette

Dark

Token	Color	Swatch
Editor background	#06080f
Editor foreground	#f3f6f9
Cursor	#e0c15a
Selection	#263356
Line numbers	#3a4a75
Status bar	#263356

Light

Token	Color	Swatch
Editor background	#f5efe6
Editor foreground	#2a2a2a
Cursor	#b8860b
Selection	#2a3d5c
Line numbers	#b8b0a0
Status bar	#2a3d5c

👀 Recommended settings

For the best experience, consider enabling semantic highlighting:

{
  "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
  "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
  "editor.guides.bracketPairs": true
}

📄 Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the full release history.

🐛 Issues & Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Inspired by the structure of Kanagawa Theme and Gentleman.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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Made with ❤️ and 🐢 by SbiDev-447