win95 is a free, light color theme for Visual Studio Code, Cursor and VSCodium that recreates the look of Windows 95: a silver-gray #C0C0C0 editor, a navy #00007F activity bar and a teal #018283 status bar, with syntax colors tuned for readability. Extension ID: asilva.win95.
| Extension ID | asilva.win95 |
| Theme type | Light |
| Works in | VS Code, Cursor, VSCodium, Windsurf and other VS Code-based editors |
| Price | Free |
| License | MIT |
| Get it from | VS Code Marketplace · Open VSX |
- Extensions view: press
Ctrl+Shift+X(Cmd+Shift+Xon macOS), search forwin95and click Install. - Quick Open: press
Ctrl+P(Cmd+Pon macOS) and runext install asilva.win95. - Command line:
code --install-extension asilva.win95 - Cursor, VSCodium, Windsurf: search for
win95in the Extensions view. These editors install from Open VSX.
- Press
Ctrl+K Ctrl+T(Cmd+K Cmd+Ton macOS), or run Preferences: Color Theme from the Command Palette. - Select win95.
Or set it in settings.json:
"workbench.colorTheme": "win95"| Element | Color |
|---|---|
| Editor background | #C0C0C0 silver gray |
| Editor text | #303030 |
| Activity bar | #00007F navy |
| Status bar | #018283 teal |
| Tab bar | #E5E6BE khaki |
| Inactive tabs, gutter | #D3D3D3 |
| Selection | #ADD8E6 light blue |
| Current line | #EFEFEF |
| Line numbers | #808080 |
| Errors / warnings / info | #FF0000 / #FFA500 / #008000 |
| Token | Color |
|---|---|
| Comments | #008000 green |
| Keywords | #4B83CD blue |
| Strings | #448C27 green |
Numbers and constants (true, nil) |
#AB6526 orange |
| Function names | #AA3731 red, bold |
| Types and classes | #7A3E9D purple, bold |
| Operators | #000000 black |
| Punctuation | #777777 gray |
- Windows 95 interface colors: silver-gray editor, navy activity bar, teal status bar and khaki tab bar.
- Readable syntax highlighting: distinct colors for keywords, strings, numbers, functions and types on the gray background.
- Classic light-blue selection and a light current-line highlight.
- Color-coded diagnostics: red errors, orange warnings and green info messages.
- Works with any language that VS Code highlights, including Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, HTML, CSS, JSON and Markdown.
Yes. win95 is free and open source under the MIT License.
Yes. The theme is published to the VS Code Marketplace and to Open VSX, so it installs in VS Code and in editors based on it, such as Cursor, VSCodium and Windsurf.
No. win95 is a light theme only, like the original Windows 95 interface.
Override it for this theme only in settings.json:
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"[win95]": {
"editor.background": "#BFBFBF"
}
},
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[win95]": {
"comments": "#006400"
}
}Press Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (Cmd+K Cmd+T on macOS) and pick another theme. To remove win95 completely, uninstall it from the Extensions view.
See CHANGELOG.md.
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please submit an issue or create a pull request on the GitHub repository.
This theme is licensed under the MIT License.