Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme

A colour scheme for Sublime Text that recreates the syntax highlighting from the default installation of Visual Studio Code. It is a faithful port of VS Code's Dark+ and Light+ token colours.

The package ships two schemes, which appear in Sublime's colour-scheme picker as:

Screenshots

	Dark+	Light+
PHP
HTML
JavaScript/Vue
Python

Installation

Package Control (recommended)

1. Open the Command Palette — Cmd+Shift+P (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux).
2. Run Package Control: Install Package.
3. Search for Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme and press Enter.

Manual

1. Download Dark+.sublime-color-scheme and Light+.sublime-color-scheme from this repository.
2. In Sublime Text, open the Command Palette and run Preferences: Browse Packages.
3. Copy both files into the User directory.

Changing the colour scheme

There are two ways to activate or switch between Dark+ and Light+.

Option 1 — the colour-scheme picker (easiest)

1. Open the Command Palette — Cmd+Shift+P (macOS) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux).
2. Run UI: Select Color Scheme.
3. Start typing Dark+ or Light+ and press Enter. The editor updates live as you arrow through the list, so you can preview before committing.

Option 2 — edit your settings

Open Preferences → Settings and add (or change) the "color_scheme" key in the right-hand pane:

{
    // Dark+
    "color_scheme": "Packages/Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme/Dark+.sublime-color-scheme",

    // …or Light+
    // "color_scheme": "Packages/Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme/Light+.sublime-color-scheme",
}

Note: If you installed manually, the schemes live under Packages/User/ instead, so use "Packages/User/Dark+.sublime-color-scheme".

Switching automatically with the OS theme

Sublime Text 4 can follow your operating system's light/dark mode. Use Dark+ at night and Light+ during the day by adding:

{
    "theme": "auto",
    "dark_color_scheme":  "Packages/Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme/Dark+.sublime-color-scheme",
    "light_color_scheme": "Packages/Visual Studio Code Plus Scheme/Light+.sublime-color-scheme",
}

Using it for one language only

To apply the scheme to a single syntax (e.g. just Python), open a file of that type and choose Preferences → Settings — Syntax Specific, then add the "color_scheme" key there. It will override the global setting for that syntax only.

Customizing colours

You don't need to edit the package files (those get overwritten on update). Instead, create an overlay:

1. Run UI: Customize Color Scheme from the Command Palette.
2. Sublime opens a <scheme-name>.sublime-color-scheme file in your User folder.
3. Add variables or rules there — they are merged on top of the base scheme and survive updates.

Supported languages

Built and tested against the scopes Sublime emits for:

PHP · C · C++ · C# · JavaScript/Vue · Python · Java · Go · Groovy · HTML/Blade · CSS/Sass/SCSS/Less · JSON · XML · Markdown · YAML · MySQL

Because the scheme targets standard TextMate scopes (keyword, storage.type, entity.name.function, entity.name.type, string, constant.numeric, …), it works with virtually any language. If a token looks wrong in a specific language, please open an issue with a screenshot and the scope name of the affected token (place the cursor on it and run Tools → Developer → Show Scope Name).

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. When reporting a colouring problem, include the language, a screenshot, and the scope name of the affected token (Tools → Developer → Show Scope Name) so it can be reproduced and fixed quickly.

About

Created by Vikram Bhaskaran. MIT Licensed — see LICENSE.md.