10 warm golden themes + a bear that lives in your status bar. Feed it. Watch it grow. Prestige.
Available on VS Code · Cursor · Kiro · VSCodium · Gitpod · Theia
Every variant keeps amber as the keyword color — the Butter Bear thread. Darcula-calibrated for all-day comfort.
Five stages, then prestige. The cycle never ends.
Hit Legend and keep coding. At 8700 XP total your bear resets to Cub — with a 🌟 star. Hit legend again → 🌟🌟. Then 🌟🌟🌟. The cycle never ends.
In VS Code, honey is earned by coding. Here, you can just click.
Everything you do earns XP and honey. The bear never judges idle time.
Every 50 keystrokes earns 1 honey. XP accrues per character typed.
Each save earns 1 honey + 10 XP. Clean saves with zero errors trigger a celebration.
Each error fixed earns 2 honey + 25 XP. The bear appreciates good debugging.
Spend honey for XP. 3× multiplier when starving. Keeps hunger up so the bear stays happy.
Every Butter theme follows four principles from JetBrains' Darcula — the most-loved dark theme in professional IDEs.
Warm-tinted medium-dark backgrounds reduce eye strain. Pure black causes "halation" — text appears to glow on dark backgrounds.
Cream/muted foreground at ~5.5:1 contrast. Passes WCAG AA without burning your eyes on late nights.
Each token type gets its own color family. Your brain learns the pattern — reading speed increases over time.
Desaturated backgrounds let amber syntax pop without neon glare. AMOLED and HC are intentional exceptions.
Pick your editor — Butter Bear works everywhere.
Also available on Gitpod · Eclipse Theia · Coder · OpenShift Dev Spaces — any editor using the Open VSX Registry