Visual Studio Code is a lightweight yet powerful free-ware source-code editor made by Microsoft. It is very popular among web, mobile, and hardware developers, and is one of the best products created by Microsoft.
It offers support for debugging, intelligent code completion, syntax highlighting, code refactoring, a rich ecosystem of extensions, and hassle-free customization. It is widely used and developers love every feature of it including IntelliSense, built-in Git controls, quick navigation, fast editing, and various vs code themes that ultimately improve developer experience and productivity.
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There are a lot of themes for visual studio code that have a significant impact on clarity, maintenance, and speed of coding. Let’s explore the best vscode themes that are popular and trending.
Why did we build Visual Studio Code?
Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a source code editor with powerful developer tooling, like IntelliSense code completion and debugging.
First and foremost, it is an editor that gets out of your way. The delightfully frictionless edit-build-debug cycle means less time fiddling with your environment, and more time executing your ideas.
One dark Pro
Atom’s iconic One Dark theme, and one of the most installed themes for VS Code!
Vsc Material Theme
Material Theme, the most epic theme for Visual Studio Code. You can install this awesome theme through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.https://material-theme.site/
Dracula Official
Dracula for Visual Studio Code
Dark theme for Visual Studio Code https://draculatheme.com/visual-studio-code
Noctis
Noctis is a collection of light & dark themes with a well-balanced blend of warm and cold colors https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
Vscode Theme Onedark
VSCode Theme based on Atom’s One Dark theme. Best rated One Dark theme port in the marketplace, features full Workbench theming.
Vscode Winteriscoming
This extension for Visual Studio Code adds themes titled “Winter is Coming”. There are dark, dark with no italics, and light themes.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winteriscoming
Shades Of Purple Vscode
Shades of Purple — A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple to go along with your VSCode. Reviewed by several designers and 75+ theme versions released to keep it updated. One of the top-rated best VSCode themes on VS Code Marketplace. Download → https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple
Vsc Community Material Theme
The community maintained version of Material Theme with ”legacy” color schemes you love!
This project is community-maintained and the source is encrypted. If you want to maintain it and ship new fixes, ask to become a maintainer so you’ll have full access to the repository.
Vscode One Monokai
A cross between Monokai and One Dark theme
Dark Plus Material
I really love the default Dark+ Theme that comes with Visual Studio Code, but also love the Material Design Palette. The thing is I didn’t find a good material theme (the coloring is always ugly for my taste). So I made this theme that implements the Material Design Palette in the Dark+ theme that comes with Visual Studio Code.
Vscode Ayu
A simple theme with bright colors and comes in three versions — dark, light, and mirage for all-day-long comfortable work.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=teabyii.ayu
Night Owl Vscode Theme
A Visual Studio Code theme for the night owls out there. Fine-tuned for those of us who like to code late into the night. Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with colorblindness and in low-light circumstances. Decisions were also based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle-dazzle. ✨
Atom One Dark Theme
VSCode Theme based on Atom’s One Dark theme. Best rated One Dark theme port in the marketplace, features full Workbench theming.
Install: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akamud.vscode-theme-onedark
Dark Plus Syntax
VS Code’s default dark theme, but just a little bit better https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dunstontc.dark-plus-syntax
Vscode Palenight Theme
Palenight Theme An elegant and juicy material-like theme for Visual Studio Code.
Others
- Material Icon Theme
This comes from Philipp Kief, topping the list at 8,185,205 installations and earning an average 4.9 rating (0-5 scale) from 195 developers who reviewed it.[Click on image for larger view.]Material Icon Theme (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).As the name suggests, it follows Google’s Material Design scheme, eschewing Microsoft’s own Fluent Design counterpart (here’s a comparison between the two). “Material Design defines the qualities that can be expressed by UI regions, surfaces, and components,” Google says. “Design and strategize how your app is built using foundations that address design from both a broad and detailed perspective.”Specifically, this extension focuses on Material Design icons — hundreds and hundreds of icons — for different types of files and folders. Developers can customize various characteristics such as folder colors and the opacity, saturation and file associations.Although the extension has been around since 2016, it is continually updated — the last change was made 11 hours previous to this writing — with the help of more than 180 community contributors. Further speaking to its popularity are the 327 forks, 70 pull requests and 848 stars adorning the associated GitHub project.Learn more here. - One Dark Pro
Coming from binaryify, this is more of a traditional full-theme extension, not just icons. It’s based on Atom’s One Dark theme, which shows up on our list a bit later.[Click on image for larger view.]One Dark Theme (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).As of this writing, it has been installed 3,882,244 times, earning an average 4.5 rating from 149 reviewers. “I’ve tried many themes before this one, and this one is definitely the best,” said one of those reviewers. “Colors are very well blended and easy for the eyes.”” It can also be customized, with users able to experiment with different colors. Installation instructions and other guidance is available here.Learn more here. - Dracula Official
Perhaps most appropriate around Halloween time, this dark theme does indeed pay homage to the count. The extension is maintained by Derek S, though Zeno Rocha is listed as its creator. It has also been around since 2016 and was updated just last month. “A dark theme for Atom, Alfred, Emacs, Highlight.js, Hyper, iTerm, JetBrains, Pygments, Slack, Sublime Text, TextMate, Terminal.app, Vim, Xcode, Zsh and many more.”[Click on image for larger view.]Dracula Official (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).It sports 2,453,730 installs, and 81 reviewers have bestowed an average 4.9 rating. “Excellent theme!!!” said one. “After trying different other themes, I feel very comfortable with this one. The contrasts are exactly as I like and can easily read. And it is OK for bigger more or less bright displays. Also, the availability of this theme is huge!!! 150+ apps. I can get it for my other apps and have exactly the same experience all the time.”Instructions are available here. Its GitHub site shows a whopping 15,976 stars and 1,537 forks. There’s also a Dracula Pro: “Dracula PRO is a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. Made for terminal emulators, code editors, and syntax highlighters. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing while keeping you focused.”Don’t look for a light color scheme option, though, because “Dracula can’t stand the light.”Learn more here. - Atom One Dark Theme
As noted, this served as the inspiration of the second-most popular theme described above, One Dark Pro. It comes from Mahmoud Ali and boasts 2,306,670 installs and a 4.8 rating from 91 reviewers, one of whom said: “When I want to use a dark theme, this is one that I choose. It’s perfect!!!”[Click on image for larger view.]Atom One Dark (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).It has been around since 2015 and was last updated in January. A companion Atom One Light Theme is also offered.Learn more here. - GitHub Theme
Although offered as a preview, this extension from GitHub has been installed 1,498,753 times, earning an average 4.4 rating from 90 reviewers.[Click on image for larger view.]GitHub Theme (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).It’s described as “GitHub themes from VS Code.” That means developers, upon clicking the Install button, are offered the choice of installing:- GitHub Light
- GitHub Dark
- GitHub Light Default ✨ new ✨
- GitHub Dark Default ✨ new ✨
- GitHub Dark Dimmed ✨ new ✨GitHub announced the availability of dark and dimmed themes in April.This preview extension was released in April 2020 and was last updated in April 2021. Thirteen community members have contributed to the project, which has been awarded 1,236 stars and has been forked 99 times.Learn more here.
- Winter is Coming
Where I live, in extreme northwest Montana, winter is always coming. Other than that, I have no input on the name of this extension. Its themes include dark (blue and black), dark with no italics and light themes, with creator John Papa saying he uses the dark ones mostly and the light on on some dimmer projectors when he his presenting.[Click on image for larger view.]Winter Is Coming (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).The tool was released in 2017 and last updated in March. It shows 1,251,375 installs and has earned an average 4.7 rating from 28 reviewers. The most recent review said: “I am hooked, this is one theme i use most of the times. It’s very balanced in it’s color schemes, for both day and night working conditions, personally I like no-italic version more.”
Conclusion
Perhaps you’ve heard about Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and are wondering whether it’s worth switching from IDEs like Eclipse Webstorm, NetBeans, or Notepad++. I think VSCode is the new gold standard for web development tools, and here’s why.