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`[CYBERPUNK HUD COLOR THEMES // EIGHT SCHEMES, EVERY EDITOR]`

"Deep-space ink, neon cyan, magenta scanlines."

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The MenkeTechnologies cyberpunk editor themes — the 8 canonical HUD colorschemes, each in dark and light (16 variants), packaged for both VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Same palettes that drive zpwrchrome's page-theme injector, the strykelang / zshrs / zpwr docs sites, and the app-store storefront — now in your editor. Companion to vscode-stryke.

Schemes

Scheme	Vibe	Accent	Cyan
Cyberpunk	hot pink + cyan neon	`#ff2a6d`	`#05d9e8`
Midnight	deep blue + electric purple	`#7c3aed`	`#38bdf8`
Matrix	terminal green on black	`#22c55e`	`#39ff14`
Ember	warm amber + orange	`#f59e0b`	`#fb923c`
Arctic	cool whites + icy blue	`#0ea5e9`	`#67e8f9`
Crimson	rose-red + teal highlight	`#e11d48`	`#2dd4bf`
Toxic	acid-lime + magenta	`#c6ff00`	`#00e5ff`
Vapor	vaporwave pastel pink + cyan	`#ff6ec7`	`#72f1ff`

Each ships a dark (e.g. ZPWR Cyberpunk) and a light (ZPWR Cyberpunk Light) variant. The full per-scheme palette is in palette/schemes.json (ported from the canonical HUD catalog); the role mapping is in PALETTE.md.

How it's built

Every theme file is generated from one palette table so the two editions never drift. Edit palette/schemes.json, then:

node scripts/generate.mjs

That writes all 16 VS Code themes, 16 JetBrains UI themes + editor schemes, and rewrites both manifests. CI re-runs it and fails on any uncommitted diff.

VS Code

The extension lives in vscode/. Build and install locally:

cd vscode
npx --yes @vscode/vsce package   # produces zpwr-cyberpunk-hud-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension zpwr-cyberpunk-hud-*.vsix

Then Cmd/Ctrl+K Cmd/Ctrl+T and pick any ZPWR scheme (Cyberpunk, Midnight, Matrix, Ember, Arctic, Crimson, Toxic, Vapor — dark or light).

JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion, Rider, …)

The plugin lives in jetbrains/. A UI-theme plugin is pure resources, so the build needs only zip — no Gradle or IDE SDK download:

cd jetbrains
./build-plugin.sh                # produces build/zpwr-theme-<version>.zip

Install via Settings → Plugins → ⚙ → Install Plugin from Disk… → pick the zip, restart, then Settings → Appearance & Behavior → Appearance → Theme and pick any ZPWR scheme.

Layout

palette/schemes.json — the 8 schemes' dark/light palettes (source of truth, ported from Audio-Haxor + the canonical docs/hud-theme.js HUD catalog).
scripts/generate.mjs — emits every theme file + both manifests from the palette.
vscode/ — VS Code theme extension (contributes.themes + 16 generated color themes).
jetbrains/ — JetBrains theme plugin (plugin.xml + 16 generated *.theme.json UI themes + editor color scheme XMLs) plus the dependency-free packaging script.
PALETTE.md — the role mapping shared by both editions.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

[CYBERPUNK HUD COLOR THEMES // EIGHT SCHEMES, EVERY EDITOR]

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