💡 Simple Light Theme

July 4, 2026 · View on GitHub

Inspired by

Goal

Don't expect any fancy colors.

More colors equal more distraction; we don't want to waste cognitive capacity on that. The goal of this theme is to have the minimum meaningful colors.

Install

VS Code

Available on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX Registry.

code --install-extension xseman.simple-light

Search for Simple light in the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X), or set it in your settings.json:

{
	"workbench.colorTheme": "Simple light"
}

VSCodium / Open VSX

Search for Simple light in the Extensions view, or install via the CLI:

codium --install-extension xseman.simple-light

Zed

Available on the Zed extension marketplace.

Search for Simple Light in Zed's extension marketplace (zed: extensions), or set it in your ~/.config/zed/settings.json:

{
	"theme": "Simple Light"
}

Structure

This is a monorepo publishing the theme to multiple editor marketplaces from a single source.

simple-light/
├── zed/                     # Zed extension artifact
│   ├── themes/
│   │   └── simple-light.json #  theme definition (Zed format)
│   └── extension.toml       #   extension manifest
├── extensions.toml          # Points Zed at the nested zed/ extension
│
├── vscode/                  # VS Code / Open VSX extension artifact
│   ├── themes/
│   │   └── light.json       #   theme definition (VS Code format)
│   └── package.json         #   extension manifest
│
├── docs/                    # Preview screenshots and sample code
└── version.txt              # Single source of truth for the version

The color definitions live in each IDE's own format (zed/themes/ for Zed, vscode/themes/ for VS Code). Versioning is coordinated by release-please, which bumps version.txt, vscode/package.json, and zed/extension.toml together on every release.