A VS Code port of Tonsky’s Sublime Text theme, designed for distraction-free long-form writing.
Background
Tonsky designed the original Writer theme to replicate iA Writer’s minimalist approach while leveraging a full-featured editor’s capabilities. His philosophy centers on achieving “the perfect balance between features and simplicity, design and focus.”
Features
- Monochromatic palette minimizing visual distractions
- Optimized for Markdown
- Light and dark variants
- Designed to pair with Writer font at 16px
Installation
Search for “Writer Theme” in the VS Code extension marketplace, or run:
ext install cboone.writer-theme-vscode
See also
iA Writer
The app that inspired this theme’s design philosophy. Hard to beat it.
iA Fonts
iA’s modifications of IBM Plex Mono. These fonts are gorgeous. They’re variable fonts, thus can be adjusted in every way possible. They’re fully internationalized.
iA Writer Mono is a cleaned up variant of Plex Mono. iA Writer Duo is the same, but with several characters (such as W and M) expanded to 150% of the rest. iA Writer Quattro is the same as Duo, but with some characters (such as f and t) shrunk to 75%, and some (such as i and j) shrunk to 50%. Which, in the end, makes for a proportional monospaced typeface.
Read more about them in iA’s blog post “A Typographic Christmas”.
Writer font
Tonsky’s modified IBM Plex Mono, optimized for writing, “with increased letter-spacing and tuned weights.”
Alabaster color theme
Tonsky’s minimal color scheme for coding, based on his philosophy of syntax highlighting, described in his blog post “A case against syntax highlighting”.
Available for a very wide range of tools, including my versions for terminal emulators.
Fira Code
Tonsky’s beautiful update of Fira Mono for coding, with monospaced ligatures. Pairs very well with Alabaster.
Credits
Original theme by Nikita Prokopov.