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Top 10 VS Code Themes

Working in a nice place makes you feel more productive, if you enjoy the look of your code, then you also enjoy writing it, editing it, and painstakingly debugging it. If visuals are important to you, then you’ve come to the right place. Want to make VS Code look a lot better? There are several ways to customize Visual Studio Code, but you should start first with a great theme! If you're looking for a new theme to change up your code editor in the new year, I'm here to help! Check out a variety of stylish themes with unique color palettes—from sleek to snazzy to vibrant and everything in between—to see what works best for you. Learn more about them in this article!

How to change your Visual Studio Code theme

For MAC Users: ⌘K and then ⌘T to display the picker.

Or you can go to the Code > Preferences > Color Theme

For Windows Users: Ctrl + Shift + P

Or you can go to the File Icon >Theme Picker with File >Preferences >File Icon Theme

Here’s the list, choose whatever makes you productive.

1) Dracula Official:

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2) Shades of Purple:

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3) Winter is coming:

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Winter is Coming Dark Blue Theme

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Winter is Coming Dark Black Theme

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Winter is Coming Light Theme

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4) Night Owl

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Night Owl

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Light Owl

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5) LaserWave:

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6) Firefox Theme

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Firefox Dark

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Firefox Light

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7) One Dark Pro

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8) Cobalt 2

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9) PaleNight

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10) OutRun

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OutRun Night

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OutRun Electric

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Additional Bonus Theme

GitHub Theme:

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GitHub Theme for classic GitHub is available in light, dark, light default, dark default, and dark dimmed versions. There are many developers who prefer GitHub's classic themes to these themes, which are similar to official GitHub.com themes.

GitHub Theme

There you have it! Those are some of my favorite themes available for VS Code, do you use any of these themes as well? What's your favorite VS-Code theme? Let me know in the comments 👇 😊

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Andrei Boika • Edited

My favorite one is Son of Obsidian theme.
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Allen

Hey Devs! Check out Tokyo Night by enkia. I love it!

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Linh Truong Cong Hong

Gruvbox is also a good choice. I use this theme on both VSCode and Vim editors.

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Esteban

Im currently using LubnaDev-Theme is really cool :)

Id: lubnadev.lubnadev-theme
Description: Bright and colourful dark theme.
Version: 1.0.0
Publisher: LubnaDev
VS Marketplace Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Will G

I've been using Aperture for the last few months. The dark theme is great but the light theme is my favourite of all the light themes I've tried. github.com/pveyes/aperture

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Gulajava Ministudio

Wow thank you for the list.
You can try our VS Code Themes too, it named "Mayukai Theme" . This theme can be installed via VS Code Marketplace
Mayukai Theme

And here some demo about Mayukai Theme, hope you like it.
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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Looks great. Thank you for sharing

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Abdur Rehman Khalid

I have tried many themes and my all time favourite theme to work with in the VS Code is Shades of Purple because it was suggested by my supervisor and till now I am using the same one.

So in my case it is the Shades of the Purple on the Top <3

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ThaHobbyist

To be honest I liked the github theme more than the 10 mentioned...

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qq449245884

Dear Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam,may I translate your article into Chinese?I would like to share it with more developers in China. I will give the original author and original source.

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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Sure do it once done share me the articles

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myleftshoe

Shades of Purple, yeah! Beautiful and vibrant.

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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Great List

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Pawel

Checkout "JellyFish Theme" you'll gonna love it.

Here's the link: mycd.ml/jellyfish

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Peace

Thank you for sharing

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Conner Ow

You forgot the two best ones:

  1. Canvas
  2. Blueberry

Those are the best.

canvas

Blueberry