Sushi-Dark Theme

A true-black dark theme for Visual Studio Code.
Clean. Minimal. Easy on the eyes.

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Preview

Screenshots coming soon.

Features

• True-black background (#000000) — perfect for OLED displays and late-night coding
• VS Code Dark+ syntax colors — the familiar, battle-tested palette you already know
• Warp terminal palette — all 16 ANSI colors matched from Warp's Dark theme
• Full UI coverage — editor, sidebar, tabs, status bar, panels, widgets, peek views, diffs, and more

Color Palette

Syntax

Element	Color	Hex
Comments		#6A9955
Strings		#CE9178
Keywords		#569CD6
Control flow		#C586C0
Functions		#DCDCAA
Types / Classes		#4EC9B0
Variables		#9CDCFE
Constants / Enums		#4FC1FF
Numbers		#B5CEA8
Escape characters		#D7BA7D

Terminal (ANSI)

Color	Normal	Bright
Black	#000000	#686868
Red	#C75646	#E09690
Green	#8EB33B	#CDEE69
Yellow	#D0B03C	#FFE377
Blue	#72B3CC	#9CD9F0
Magenta	#C8A0D1	#FBB1F9
Cyan	#218693	#77DFD8
White	#B0B0B0	#F0F0F0

Installation

This theme is not on the VS Code Marketplace — it's distributed only through this GitHub repo. The sushi-theme-1.0.0.vsix file in the repo root is the install bundle (just a zip of the theme files; no marketplace involved).

Install in two commands

git clone https://github.com/shushankai/sushi-theme.git
code --install-extension sushi-theme/sushi-theme-1.0.0.vsix

Then reload VS Code (Developer: Reload Window from the command palette) and pick the theme:

Preferences: Color Theme → Sushi-Dark Theme

That's it. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows — same command everywhere.

Why not just cp -r the folder? Modern VS Code (1.74+) tracks installed extensions in a registry file (~/.vscode/extensions/extensions.json). Manually copying a folder doesn't update that registry, so VS Code silently ignores it. code --install-extension is the official way to install a local extension and writes the registry correctly.

Updating to a newer version

cd sushi-theme
git pull
code --install-extension sushi-theme-1.0.0.vsix --force

--force lets you reinstall over the existing version.

For contributors — live editing

If you're tweaking the theme:

1. Open the cloned sushi-theme folder in VS Code.
2. Press F5 (or Run → Start Debugging) — a new VS Code window opens with your in-progress theme loaded.
3. Edit themes/sushi-color-theme.json in your main window, reload the dev-host window to see changes.

When you're happy, rebuild the bundled VSIX so others can pull the update:

npx --yes @vscode/vsce package --allow-missing-repository --no-dependencies

Commit the new .vsix alongside the JSON change.

Uninstall

code --uninstall-extension sushi.sushi-theme

Inspiration

This theme is built on the shoulders of two great defaults:

• Warp Terminal — Dark Theme — true-black background and terminal ANSI color palette
• VS Code — Dark+ Theme — syntax highlighting colors and semantic token mappings

Contributing

Found a scope that looks off? Open an issue or submit a PR. Contributions are welcome.

License

MIT