diff --git a/editors/code/src/color_theme.ts b/editors/code/src/color_theme.ts
index a6957a76ef3..2f2a39877e9 100644
--- a/editors/code/src/color_theme.ts
+++ b/editors/code/src/color_theme.ts
@@ -83,8 +83,12 @@ function loadThemeNamed(themeName: string): ColorTheme {
         res.mergeFrom(loadThemeFile(themePath));
     }
 
-    const customizations: any = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('editor').get('tokenColorCustomizations');
-    res.mergeFrom(ColorTheme.fromRules(customizations?.textMateRules ?? []));
+    const global_customizations: any = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('editor').get('tokenColorCustomizations');
+    res.mergeFrom(ColorTheme.fromRules(global_customizations?.textMateRules ?? []));
+
+    const theme_customizations: any = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('editor.tokenColorCustomizations').get(`[${themeName}]`);
+    res.mergeFrom(ColorTheme.fromRules(theme_customizations?.textMateRules ?? []));
+
 
     return res;
 }
diff --git a/editors/code/src/highlighting.ts b/editors/code/src/highlighting.ts
index c4d286aefe4..b34e49c173a 100644
--- a/editors/code/src/highlighting.ts
+++ b/editors/code/src/highlighting.ts
@@ -233,16 +233,16 @@ const TAG_TO_SCOPES = new Map<string, string[]>([
     ["type", ["entity.name.type"]],
     ["type.builtin", ["entity.name.type", "support.type.primitive"]],
     ["type.self", ["entity.name.type.parameter.self"]],
-    ["type.param", ["entity.name.type.parameter"]],
-    ["type.lifetime", ["entity.name.type.lifetime"]],
+    ["type.param", ["entity.name.type.parameter", "entity.name.type.param.rust"]],
+    ["type.lifetime", ["entity.name.type.lifetime", "entity.name.lifetime.rust"]],
 
     ["literal.byte", ["constant.character.byte"]],
-    ["literal.char", ["constant.character"]],
+    ["literal.char", ["constant.character.rust"]],
     ["literal.numeric", ["constant.numeric"]],
 
     ["comment", ["comment"]],
     ["string", ["string.quoted"]],
-    ["attribute", ["meta.attribute"]],
+    ["attribute", ["meta.attribute.rust"]],
 
     ["keyword", ["keyword"]],
     ["keyword.unsafe", ["keyword.other.unsafe"]],