An other theme for VS Code?

Andreas Huth — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:17:50 +0000

Switching from IntelliJ to VS Code? Your eyes will notice first. 👀

After my IntelliJ navigation plugin, I kept running into the next thing that felt "off": the colors. JetBrains-like themes for VS Code usually pick a handful of colors by eye – method calls end up blue and italic, class names get colored, static members look like everything else.

So I took a different route: the Islands Theme is generated straight from the JetBrains color schemes. Every color is resolved the way IntelliJ resolves it – own value, fallback, parent scheme.

🌗 Islands Dark & Islands Light, including the window, sidebar, tabs, popups, git, diff and terminal colors
☕ Java & Kotlin exactly like IntelliJ – declarations blue, calls plain, fields purple, static italic, Javadoc green
🧩 Python like PyCharm, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML & CSS like WebStorm, Go like GoLand, Rust like RustRover – plus PHP and C/C++
🧠 Semantic highlighting for the JetBrains Java/Kotlin server, Pylance, rust-analyzer, gopls, clangd and VS Code's TypeScript support
🏝️ With VS Code's new floating layout it even looks like the islands

Free and open source – try it together with "IntelliJ Java/Kotlin Navigation" and VS Code feels a lot more like home.

👉 VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=andreashuthe.intellij-islands-theme
👉 Open VSX (Cursor, VSCodium, Windsurf): https://open-vsx.org/extension/andreashuthe/intellij-islands-theme
👉 GitHub: https://github.com/andreashuthe/intellij-islands-theme

Which language should look even more like its JetBrains IDE? Feedback and ⭐ are very welcome.

(Not affiliated with JetBrains – just a fan of their color schemes.)

DEV Community: Andreas Huth

An other theme for VS Code?