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ahmadawais/shades-of-purple-vscode
🦄 Shades of Purple offers a hand-picked selection of bold and vibrant shades of purple that will transform your code into a visually stunning masterpiece. With its carefully crafted color palette, this theme brings a sense of style, elegance, and whimsy to your favorite code editor, making your coding sessions a delightful journey of creativity.
A purple-themed VS Code color scheme — background #2D2B55, high-saturation syntax colors, with sibling ports for several terminals and tools. It's for developers who want a distinctive, high-contrast look and don't mind a theme repo that's 90% marketing copy.
The scope is honest: it's a handful of JSON color-theme files, nothing more, so there's nothing to break. It has a real multi-year track record (5M+ installs) and ships variants (italic, super-dark) instead of one rigid palette. The palette extends past VS Code into iTerm2, Hyper, Alacritty, Konsole, Ghostty, Prism and highlight.js, so you can keep one consistent purple scheme across editor and terminal if you buy in fully.
The README is almost entirely testimonials and upsell links to the author's paid course (VSCode.pro appears a dozen+ times) — actual technical content (the palette table, settings snippet) is buried near the bottom. No contrast/accessibility data backs the 'reduces eye strain' claim, which matters for a theme this saturated. There's no CI, no visual regression testing, and no changelog surfaced in the README despite one existing in the repo — you're trusting a static set of hex values with no way to verify a release didn't shift something.