ALalberth·Oct 17, 2025
I ironically use the author light theme.
https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster
Seems to break all his rules from the blog post.
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tonsky / vscode-theme-alabaster
vscode-theme-alabaster
A light theme for Visual Studio Code
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesAlabaster: A light theme for Visual Studio Code
3 points · Open discussionYes! I'm not sure of your preferred editor but for Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA there is the Alabaster theme.
You can read up more on its "manifesto" here. Variants to cover the rest besides the light theme on VS Code are at the bottom of the page.
https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster
In Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different appsNice! I liked the GH dark theme, but I’m really digging the dark dimmed theme since it released recently.
I use Alabaster for light [0] and New Moon for dark [1] in VS Code, looking forward to trying the dark dimmed theme!
[0] https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster
[1] https://github.com/taniarascia/new-moon-vscode
In New GitHub themes for VS CodeAsk HN: Do you use light or dark themes when coding?
I recently started to like using light themes for my editors. Currently using VS Code and this theme:
https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster
However I still occasionally enjoy turning on a dark theme with Ayu:
https://github.com/teabyii/vscode-ayu
I read that lighter themes make it easier to process information.
Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-light-or-dark-color-scheme-better-for-programming
I am curious what your thoughts on what the best theme for coding is? What themes are you using?
2 points · Open discussion