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23 Best VS Code Themes in 2024

Luca Restagno on March 06, 2024

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It has been my favorite code editor since 2018, while previousl...
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Pranjal Kumar

Try this Minimal Kiwi Theme, you will love it. BTW I created this theme and my colleagues loved it.

Minimal Kiwi | Official VS Code Theme

Minimal Kiwi

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Jehoshua

I am very sorry: This unqualified list is a real shame.

  • If the selection criteria for the color schemes were applied to cars and houses, they would be nice to look at - but completely useless. Therefore, ratings like “I like the viollett color” are just embarrassing.
  • Just like the concept of ”Form follows function” is ingenious (you can also turn it around: a form should support a function), the same must apply to a color scheme: ‘Color follows function’.

  • NONE(!) of these color schemes support the developer in his work, because they only distribute more or less random pretty colors to different objects.

  • While writing code, a good, useful color scheme must draw the eye to the important code elements.

  • But these color schemes almost invariably draw the eye to unimportant things like the “#Import” statement instead of the element that is actually being imported.

  • Or the color highlights the type of a variable, while the eye has to laboriously search for the variable in the code.

The really bad thing about this "Best VS Code Themes" list is that terrible color schemes that only offer a pretty look but ZERO function are rewarded.

Kind regards,
Thomas

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Cedric Megnie

Hi @jehoshua I like your comment, and I agree with you
I created this theme a while back, and tried to apply these concept
G Dark-Themes
I am still making changes when I have time, and planning a major update as soon as I enough free time, mostly to organized, and reduce color noises with only 2 to 3 shade/tint of a foreground, background, etc.

I you have time, please leave a comment or any suggestion on the git repository.
Thanks

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sabbir2609 • Edited

My favourite one is Hackthebox

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Juan J. López Lira

Thanks @pranjal-barnwal awesome theme!

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TK

Try Zen Garden.