Minimal-Mistakes Themes

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Minimal-Mistakes Syntax Highlighting Specification

1Prelude

1.1Interpreting this specification

Language syntaxes and scopes will be referred to in the following manner throughout this document:

ScopeOfInterest
(ForegroundColor,BackgroundColoropt)ItalicoptBoldopt
Note Throughout the document, broad ranges of syntax tokens will be referred to using TextMate Naming Conventions

1.2Color Palette

1.2.1Standard

Background
#282A36
Foreground
#F8F8F2
Selection
#44475A
Comment
#6272A4
Red
#FF5555
Orange
#FFB86C
Yellow
#F1FA8C
Green
#50FA7B
Purple
#BD93F9
Cyan
#8BE9FD
Pink
#FF79C6

1.2.2ANSI

AnsiBlack
#21222C
AnsiRed
#FF5555
AnsiGreen
#50FA7B
AnsiYellow
#F1FA8C
AnsiBlue
#BD93F9
AnsiMagenta
#FF79C6
AnsiCyan
#8BE9FD
AnsiWhite
#F8F8F2
AnsiBrightBlack
#6272A4
AnsiBrightRed
#FF6E6E
AnsiBrightGreen
#69FF94
AnsiBrightBlue
#D6ACFF
AnsiBrightCyan
#A4FFFF
AnsiBrightWhite
#FFFFFF

1.3Example spec-compliant theme implementation

A fully spec‐compliant theme implementation can be found by visiting the Minimal-Mistakes/visual‐studio‐code repository.

2General

2.1Diffs

2.2Markup (Markdown, RST, etc.)

Note Braces and parens should be the same color as the foreground color of the currently scoped position in the document (e.g. Purple for headings, Foreground for regular text)

3Classes

Note InstanceReservedWords refers to reserved words that the language uses to interact with the instance (e.g. this, self, super).

4Comments

Example
/**
 * @param {string} foo - Some string parameter.
// ^^^^^^ -------------------------------------- Pink
//        ^      ^ ----------------------------- Cyan
//         ^^^^^^ ------------------------------ Cyan Italic
//                 ^^^ ------------------------- Orange Italic
 */

5Constants

6Entities

7Functions/Methods

Decorators
(Green)Italic

8Keywords

9Language Built-ins

Support
(Cyan)Italic

10Punctuation

Note SeparatorsReferencesOrAccessors does not refer to simple object or class dot accessors.

11Serializable / Configuration Languages

YamlAliases
(Green)ItalicUnderline

12Storage

Types
(Cyan)Italic
Note GenericTemplatesAndMappedDeclarations refers to the declarations of generic types only. In the following example, only the T in the brackets would be Orange. function myFunc<T>(x: T): T {}
Note GenericTemplatesAndMappedDeclarations would also color P and T on the LHS and T in the declaration of the following expression.
Example
type PartialExample<T> = { // T = Orange Italic
  [P in keyof T]?: T[P];   // P and T on the LHS = Orange Italic
}

13Strings

14Variables

Destructuring Example
const x = {
    foo: 'foo',
    bar: 'bar',
    baz: 'baz',
};

// foo = Orange Italic
// myFoo = Foreground
const { foo: myFoo } = x;
Import/Export Example
export { Foo };                     // Foo = Foreground
export { Foo as myFoo };            // Foo = Orange Italic, myFoo = Foreground
import { Foo as myFoo } from 'foo'; // Foo = Orange Italic, myFoo = Foreground
import { Foo } from 'foo';          // Foo = Foreground