themes/ — split view

Epic and Arctic Frost, side by side.

Rendered side by side, without the toggle, so you can compare them directly. Each pane shows that theme's own workbench tokens as JSON — highlighted by the theme colouring itself.

epic.json#5454bc

{
    "activityBar.background": "#25293a",
    "sideBar.background": "#25293a",
    "editor.background": "#292d3e",
    "editorLineNumber.foreground": "#9f9f9f6e",
    "tab.activeBackground": "#3d435c",
    "tab.activeBorder": "#5454bc",
    "statusBar.background": "#292d3e",
    "button.background": "#5454bc",
    "textLink.foreground": "#8c8ccf",
    "focusBorder": "#5454bc",
    "terminal.ansiBrightMagenta": "#d670d6",
    "terminal.ansiBrightCyan": "#29b8db"
}

Purple-magenta accent over a deep indigo editor.

arctic-frost.json#4a9eff

{
    "activityBar.background": "#0a0c16",
    "sideBar.background": "#0a0c16",
    "editor.background": "#0d0f1a",
    "editorLineNumber.foreground": "#9f9f9f6e",
    "tab.activeBackground": "#32375a",
    "tab.activeBorder": "#4a9eff",
    "statusBar.background": "#0d0f1a",
    "button.background": "#4a9eff",
    "textLink.foreground": "#4a9eff",
    "focusBorder": "#4a9eff",
    "terminal.ansiBrightMagenta": "#d670d6",
    "terminal.ansiBrightCyan": "#29b8db"
}

Glacial blues over near-black navy.

Token by token

Every value below is read straight out of the extension's theme JSON at build time — the same files VS Code loads. Hover a colour for its hex.

Workbench token	Epic Theme	Arctic Frost
Accent `button.background`	`#5454bc`	`#4a9eff`
Editor background `editor.background`	`#292d3e`	`#0d0f1a`
Editor foreground `editor.foreground`	`#d9d8d8`	`#d9d8d8`
Activity bar `activityBar.background`	`#25293a`	`#0a0c16`
Sidebar `sideBar.background`	`#25293a`	`#0a0c16`
Active tab `tab.activeBackground`	`#3d435c`	`#32375a`
Tab accent rail `tab.activeBorder`	`#5454bc`	`#4a9eff`
Status bar `statusBar.background`	`#292d3e`	`#0d0f1a`
Selection `list.activeSelectionBackground`	`#393f56`	`#22264a`
Links `textLink.foreground`	`#8c8ccf`	`#4a9eff`

Install both from the Marketplace and switch with Ctrl+K Ctrl+T, or try them first inthe playground.