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Bold New VSCode Theme โ€” Shades of Purple ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฆ„โš›

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Shades of Purple Theme for VS Code

๐Ÿ’œ I'm super excited to launch my new purple Visual Studio Code theme called โ†’ Shades of Purple (SOP) โ€” it includes hand-picked & bold shades of purple ๐Ÿฆ„ coz purple can be genius.

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Stats in One Week:

๐Ÿ‘‰ Download Shades of Purple
๐ŸŽฉ Used by ~500+ developers (launched 2 days ago)
๐ŸŒŸ 18+ five-star ratings
๐Ÿ’ฅ VSCode Tip: http://VSCode.pro/tip/1
โœ… Also available for Slack / #iTerm2 / #Hyper / Konsole / AlfredApp

Shades of Purple (SOP)
A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple ๐Ÿ’œ to go along with your VS Code. A custom VS Code theme with style. I am also launching a course on VSCode to help you become a Visual Studio Code Power User โ†’
A FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) project developed by Ahmad Awais.
Follow Ahmad's #FOSS work on GitHub @AhmadAwais โ€” Say ๐Ÿ‘‹ on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais
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Install

Easy Installation

  1. Open the extensions sidebar on Visual Studio Code
  2. Search for Shades of Purple Theme
  3. Click Install to install it.
  4. Click Reload to reload your editor.
  5. Code/File ๏ผž Preferences ๏ผž Color Theme ๏ผž Shades of Purple.

alternate installation

Alternate Installation

  1. Launch Quick Open using Cmd+P โ€” or โ€” Ctrl+P.
  2. Paste the command ext install shades-of-purple
  3. Click Install to install it.
  4. Click Reload to reload the your editor.
  5. Code/File ๏ผž Preferences ๏ผž Color Theme ๏ผž Shades of Purple.

Tips

Best Custom Settings!

This theme works best with the following settings. Especially if you have the Operator mono font. Add it to your user settings JSON object.

You can also use a custom VSCode Shades-of-Purple icon that I created based on the work of amazing designer Dhanish called VSCode Icons.


// Theme Setup.
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Shades of Purple",
  "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
  "editor.fontFamily": "Operator Mono, Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace",
  "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'Operator Mono', 'Inconsolata for Powerline', monospace",
  "editor.fontSize": 17,
  "editor.lineHeight": 24.65,
  "editor.letterSpacing": 0.5,
  "editor.fontWeight": "400",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.cursorStyle": "line",
  "editor.cursorWidth": 5,
  "editor.cursorBlinking": "solid",
  "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
  "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",
  "workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",
  "editor.glyphMargin": true,
  "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
  "explorer.confirmDragAndDrop": false,
  "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
  "files.trimFinalNewlines": true,
  // Formatting Optional.
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "prettier.eslintIntegration": true,
  "eslint.run": "onType",
  "eslint.autoFixOnSave": true,
  // MacOS Only Settings.
  "workbench.fontAliasing": "auto",
  "terminal.integrated.macOptionIsMeta": true,
  "workbench.statusBar.feedback.visible": false,

๐Ÿ’œ I'll be teaching more about configuring this theme and your Visual Studio Code editor at VSCode.pro. Interested?! Sign up to become a VSCode Power User โ†’

Shades of purple for other software

Put Shades of Purple In Other Places!

I have built other Shades of Purple themes for different software. Here's a list.

Hello

Hello, we're the WordPress Couple!

I (Ahmad Awais) am a Full Stack Web Developer and a regular core contributor at WordPress. My significant other (Maedah Batool) is a Technical Project Manager, and she's also a WordPress Core Contributor. Together with our team, we run the WPCouple.com.

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Support our Open Source Projects! ๐ŸŽฉ

If you'd like us to keep producing professional free and open source software (FOSS). Consider paying for an hour of my dev-time. We'll spend two hours on open source for each contribution. Yeah, that's right, you pay for one hour and get both of us to spend an hour as a thank you.

Thanks

License & Attribution

Licensed as MIT โ“’ Ahmad Awais.

Thanks to VSCode team at Microsoft for creating such an awesome code editor. Also to the creator of other high contrast themes that served as an inspiration. This theme takes inspiration from many VSCode themes including but not limited to Cobalt themes by Roberto Achar, Ayu, Palenight themes, Dracula themes, etc. Thanks, Dhanish for awesome VSCode icons. And Icons8 for the icons in this readme.

Say ๐Ÿ‘‹ on Twitter โ†’ @MrAhmadAwais

Top comments (2)

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Angelica Gonzalez

LOVE THIS!!!

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Ahmad Awais โšก๏ธ

So, glad you liked it. Care to write a five-star review at ahmda.ws/VSCSOPR that will help more people find the theme. ๐Ÿ’ฏ