Carrot Gay Theme is a VS Code color theme built around a highly recognizable visual palette: deep navy backgrounds, bright cyan accents, mint-toned strings, and a vivid pink status bar. The goal was to create an editor theme that felt distinctive at a glance without giving up day-to-day usability.

The project was developed as a customized reinterpretation of the Winter is Coming theme, with adjustments to both syntax highlighting and UI colors. Rather than aiming for a neutral or minimal look, the design intentionally leans into a bolder visual identity while still keeping code readable across a range of languages.

• deep navy editor and panel surfaces
• cyan and sky-blue emphasis colors for active states
• mint and pale green string coloring
• pink and lavender highlights across syntax and UI
• a bright status bar that makes the theme immediately recognizable

The theme was tested across several language contexts, including C++, TypeScript, Assembly, Verilog, JSON, HTML, Bash, and Python. That breadth mattered because a theme can look compelling in screenshots while still breaking down in real mixed-language workflows. The intent here was to produce something expressive enough to feel personal, but balanced enough to remain practical.

Carrot Gay Theme is a small but focused design project centered on developer experience. It shows the same product instinct as larger software work: identify a daily tool that feels unsatisfying, define a stronger point of view, and turn that into something others can install and use directly in their workflow.