Visual Studio Themes

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Download Bluloco Light Theme VS Code Themes to Rejuvenate Your Coding Experience. These are our picks for the best Visual Studio Code themes. We hope this article helps you pick a new theme and give the overall aesthetic of your coding setup a facelift. So, which of these Visual Studio Code themes do you like the most? The extension Color Themes for Visual Studio installs new themes to chose in the native options menu, The extension Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio 2019 installs a gui to chose and install themes, The marketplace that contains a category Themes but the selection is scarce compared to the VS Code themes marketplace.

  • It had previously been challenging to get it on Visual Studio 2017, as there were breaking changes in the way the colors were organized. Unfortunately, I do not have the reference I used to successfully access it on Visual Studio 2017. Luckily, it’s now possible to get it to Visual Studio 2019 pretty easily.
  • This theme was inspired by the themes Visual Studio Dark+, Monokai, and Dustin Sander’s theme for “An Old Hope”. Custom CSS inspired by Wes Bos. Blue background for the Dark theme was inspired by Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl theme.

More and more I find myself 'skinning and themeing' my Visual Studio development environment in order to stay frosty. It's surprising how changing your theme (fonts, colors, etc.) can re-energize me when I'm having trouble with some problem or motivation.

Here's a gallery of some nice Visual Studio Themes to refresh your look.

Remember to always back up your settings so you can get back to the way things were and have no fear when you're changing your settings. Note also that some of these settings files you'll find out in the wild may (mistakenly) have Keyboard Bindings included. You'll want to selectively import just the fonts and colors that you want and avoid importing over your own custom keyboard settings.

I switched to a darker scheme a while back, as have many others. I also spent a while looking for the perfect font as have others. When you stumble on a 2005 theme that you want ot use in 2008, Tomas has an XSLT to make the transition smoother.

Oren Ellenbogen's Dark Scheme

A lot of the darker schemes like Oren's don't use a True Black, but an 'off black.' His theme is very low contrast and uses muted, relaxing colors.

Mike 'Blowmage' Moore's Ruby Blue

This is a low-contrast calm schema, but operators and numbers have a little 'pop' to them.

Vibrant Borland by Mawi

This one bring backs good memories of writing Borland C++ with OWL and Turbovision, with a little Norton Commander thrown in for fun.

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One of the few light-colored themes, Jeff's also uses a custom font to make 0 and O stand out. Note that the white background is more of a paper-colored off-white.

Dave Reed's Jedi Scheme

Dave's schema uses a complete black, and a neon blue. A little intense, but much higher contrast.

Damien Guard's Humane

This earthy theme includes little details like smart fonts and italics.

Tomas Restrepo's Themes

Tomas has done a huge amount of work in this space. You can get seven of his themes here. He's even got a tool to port color schemes from Visual Studio to SQL Management Studio.

Desert Nights

This theme uses the greatest range of colors outside of the Vibrant Ink them, and approaches, but doesn't reach, a number of primary colors.

Garden of Eden

Green, Kermit-green, sea-green, they are all here in this blue-green theme.

Ragnarok

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Initially similar to many dark themes, this one uses complementary colors to provide contrast between identifiers and keywords, string literals and comments.

Nightingale

A more cheerful dark theme that includes italics for string literals and brighter neons for keywords.

Moria Alternate

This uses Deja Vu Sans Mono as it's font and uses a lot more neutrals and grays outside of the keyword space.

Brad Wilson Dark Visual Studio

A muted, low-contrast theme with blues and purples. Even the yellow is relaxed.

Martin Plante (slimCODE)

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Martin likes small text, no ClearType to take advantage of crisp LCD screens. Rather than committing to blue or black he goes for a navy-gray-blue background.

John Lam's Vibrant Ink Port

John's trying for a straight port of Textmate's famous Vibrant Ink. This is a sharp, bright, neo-classic theme. Note his use of Monaco.

Rob Conery - Textmate

This is Rob's take on Vibrant Ink, added Consolas as the font, some bolding, and lowers the contrast a smidge.

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About the theme:

This theme was made for more comfortable coding in VSCode and is experimental. This is it's very first version and the very first theme of a set.Due to upcoming exams, new family member of the set won't be released until the I finish my exams.The theme was tailored for VSCode hence not compatible with other IDEs.This is the pastel dark variant of the set.

How to install:

Method 1 - Within VSCode:

  • On your VSCode interface, click on the extension icon found at the left of the screen and the extension bar will open up

  • Next type the name of the theme on the searchbar at the top

  • When you find the theme click on the install button on either the new opened tab or from the extension bar

  • Wait for a few moments and the theme will be installed.

  • VSCode will open a command window where you can select a theme and after applying the newly installed theme

  • And done!

Method 2 - From the marketplace

  • Browse to the Marketplace

  • Type one of the keywords and press on the card

  • The extension install page will show up and click on install

  • Follow on-screen instructions to finish the install.

See these documentations for detailed instractions.

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License

MIT License see LICENSE.md