vscode — minimal, clean, beautiful

Vitesse Dark (antfu.theme-vitesse:1.0.1) + JetBrains Mono — warm ink, quiet chrome, airy type.

Minimal = no noise. Clean = everything aligns. Beautiful = warm, not stark.

Palette

• Theme: Vitesse Dark — #121212 ink, muted sage/moss accents, low-contrast chrome
• Icons: vs-minimal (outline only, no color noise)
• Font: JetBrains Mono + CaskaydiaMono Nerd Font, ligatures, 13px / 22px line height, 0.3 letter spacing

Layout (what you see)

• Activity bar → top (horizontal, like a tab bar)
• Title bar → custom, command center off, layout controls off
• Sidebar → 16px indent, no indent guides, singleClick to open
• Editor → no minimap, gutter-only highlight, boundary whitespace, 6px minimal scrollbars
• Tabs → shrink + wrap, no preview mode (keeps working set stable)
• Chrome off → no breadcrumbs, no sticky scroll, no folding controls, no glyph margin, no lightbulb

Behavior (what you feel)

• Smooth caret (phase + smoothCaretAnimation), smooth scrolling (editor + list + terminal)
• Bracket colorization on but guides only on active pair — calm
• Inlay hints → offUnlessPressed (hold Ctrl+Alt), occurrences/selection highlight off
• File nesting (.ts → .js, package.json → lockfiles) + compactFolders: false for clear hierarchy
• Auto-save afterDelay 800ms, trimTrailingWhitespace, insertFinalNewline
• Format on save + fixAll.eslint via Prettier/ESLint

Stack

Error Lens · Prettier · ESLint · GitLens · Git Graph · Path Intellisense · Auto Rename Tag · Color Highlight · Indent Rainbow

Install

git clone git@github.com:0124212/vscode.git $env:USERPROFILE\vscode
Copy-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\vscode\settings.json" "$env:APPDATA\Code\User\settings.json" -Force
Copy-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\vscode\keybindings.json" "$env:APPDATA\Code\User\keybindings.json" -Force
code --install-extension antfu.theme-vitesse --force
.\vscode\install.ps1  # installs full functional pack

Reload window after install: Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window

Switch variants

Vitesse ships Light/Dark/Soft — swap workbench.colorTheme:

Vitesse Dark
Vitesse Dark Soft — softer contrast, even warmer
Vitesse Light

Tweaks

All tuning lives in settings.json (127 lines, commented sections):

• Typography: editor.fontSize / lineHeight / letterSpacing
• Quiet chrome: renderLineHighlight: gutter, renderWhitespace: boundary, showFoldingControls: never
• Motion: cursorSmoothCaretAnimation, smoothScrolling
• Explorer: fileNesting.patterns, compactFolders, openEditors.visible: 0

Edit → copy to %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json → reload.

Preview

Minimal means borders are #191919 on #121212 — almost invisible. Foreground #dbd7caee at 13px/22px breathes. No minimap, no breadcrumbs, no command center = content fills space.