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15 underrated VSCode Themes for a change in 2019 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sarthak Sharma on January 17, 2019

We all have tried some famous VSCode themes for sure but what about these that come below in the list. This year let's try them out too for a chang...
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Hunter Henrichsen

I've been using Nord as of late. It's available for VSCode here.

Nord Preview

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Anton Bodnya • Edited

I used to, but than change to Mariana Nord

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Sarthak Sharma

That's cool.

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Cleiton

I'm using the amazing Shades of Purple theme. I sure recommend it.

Shades of Purple - Javascript

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Sarthak Sharma

Nice

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Mr Kendrick ❁

Wow! nice. What's the name of the font and how did you apply it?

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Ben Lovy

Not OP but it looks a little like Dank Mono - unfortunately not a free font, that website is selling it for 40GBP.

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Ali Spittel

Fairy Floss is my favorite!

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Sarthak Sharma

Purple is new love ♥️😊

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Zoey M

I love this theme so much I ported it to VS 2017/2019!

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Thanks for that themes!

I was looking for new themes right now :)

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Sarthak Sharma

Glad to help. Also, don't forget to tell your favorite theme. 😊

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

It is the 'Field Lights Theme'!

Using it right now :)

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Sarthak Sharma

Work great with that Icon Theme they have mentioned.

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Ryan Smith

I recently put out a theme called Kaia, so it is my favorite (clearly biased). I took what I liked from Monokai and tried to make it more readable. Feel free to check it out and let me know if you like it.
Kaia

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Sarthak Sharma

That's so cool man. Will definitely check this out.

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Stephen Chiang • Edited

I have tried hundreds now and some I stick with for a few days, but I always switch back to Material Ocean High Contrast.

For me it is the best combination of visual appeal and consistency between a Retina screen and my PC.

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Austin Standing • Edited

Tetra Contrast and Tron Contrast from the Dayle Rees Contrast pack

Cold Horizon by vincentfiestada

After Dark by ssmi

Also shoutout to @jschr behind vscodethemes, discovering that today made me happier than words can describe.

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Jordan Schroter

Thanks! Glad you find it useful. Let me know if you have any features you'd like to see built at github.com/jschr/vscodethemes/issues :-)

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armaganKuyumcu • Edited

I've been using City Lights but I'm considering Field Lights Theme and Outrun right now.

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Conlin Durbin

Dank Neon

We just finished and released Dank Neon! It's completely open source and will be getting a dedicated dev.to post soon!

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Josef Aidt

I'm just gonna go ahead and plug my Rouge Theme, not sure if I can call it underrated but it is my daily driver :)

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Sarthak Sharma

Definitely an underrated theme. 👏🏼👏🏼

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Jhossymar Contreras

I have been using Cobalt2 since the first half of the past year and it's a great option.

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Sarthak Sharma

Used it, Nice theme.

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Kyle Boe

Oooooothat outrun though 👀 outrun.gif

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Sarthak Sharma

IKR !!

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Brian Breeden

Cyberpunk is a bit much for my eyes but I really like Outrun and Horizon. They are going into my collection for sure.

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Sarthak Sharma

Outrun is Getting popular 😬

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Brian Breeden

Might not be "underrated" anymore thanks to your article! :)

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Sarthak Sharma

That was the intention 😊

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Jaaki • Edited

Cool thanks.

Trying out Cyberpunk => The Scarlett Protocol
for my daytime theme :)

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Sarthak Sharma

Your comment just gave me an idea for a new open source project. thanks :)

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Hugo Torzuoli

Thanks for the share !

I would recommend Noctis Lux for light themes lover.

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Sarthak Sharma • Edited

It's in the poster btw.

😃

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Hugo Torzuoli

Haha right!

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10F

So I made this theme for personal use about a year ago or so.

Couple of weeks ago I decided to put it on the market for other people to enjoy.

It's called Laetus and you can download it here.

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Itachi Uchiha

Thanks for themes.

Cyberpunk Theme looks amazing. I'm looking for VSCode themes like Cyberpunk.

I like purple or similar colors on IDE's

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Sarthak Sharma

Try Noctics Uva also then. 😊

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Itachi Uchiha

Looks but I like more purple :P

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Sarthak Sharma

Then Cyber Punk in Awesome 😊

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Matías Olivera

I want to recommend Ayu, Dracula, and Noctis. I had already installed Horizon and Andromeda themes, both are pretty good ones. I will try some of the recommendations. Thanks for sharing! 🙌

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Sarthak Sharma

Thanks for recommendation 😊

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James

Tomorrow Night Blue or Eva Light Bold at the moment, like the look of Github Sharp and Relaxed themes though, thanks for sharing

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Fabio Russo

Used Andromeda for an year... will try CyberPunk for sure!

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Yoghaswara Nugroho

Thanks for recomendation , I use ayu dark theme in vscode.

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Sebastian

I'm surprised this theme is not mentioned more.

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Sarthak Sharma

Nice theme.

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DaLeR

Installed cyberpunk and andromeda on my VSCode :)) thanks for the post!

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Sarthak Sharma

😊

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Vaibhav • Edited

Andromeda Theme and Moonlight Theme look amazing. I would love to use those in my upcoming time.

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Sarthak Sharma

Both themes are great. 😊

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Erik Nelson

Dracula is nice for the ability to have consistency across tools.

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Tiago Marques

Really loved the 12. Outrun Theme

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Miloslav Cvetkovic

Andromeda looks amazing and works well with dank mono font! 😊

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Ricardo Costeira

I really like the Gatito theme! Been using it for a while and never looked back.

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Sarthak Sharma

Nice theme

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Molly Prior

I love Ariake Dark! It's my current go-to theme.

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Sarthak Sharma

Damn! Didn’t knew about it. 😯

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Sarthak Sharma

An Old Hope, a great theme. 😊

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Sarthak Sharma

Dracula theme.

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Mihail Malo

Cyberpunk Theme seems interesting for mornings, I'll be trying it out.
MacOS made me nose exhale.
What font do you use?

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Gustavo Santos

I'm using daily the Horizon Theme in all my computers. It's amazing

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Salun Marvin

I use the Moonlight one, then I saw this one. It's amazing.

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Jorge H Carretero

Night Owl Black is my favorite, followed by Cyberpunk...

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Lars Klopstra ⚡

How'd you get that cursive font?

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Sarthak Sharma

It’s Operator mono.

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Jarvis Addison

I know I'm late to the party, but, thanks to this post, I switched to Horizon. Looks nice.

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Vaibhav

I would try this ..for sure

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Sarthak Sharma

CyberPunk is a clear winner here.

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TheWeirdDev

Thank you! All of them are beautiful. Now i don't know how to choose one :)

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Mateus Vahl

I've been using citylights since 2017, It's beautiful and comes with a icon pack as well.

citylights.xyz/

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XYZ

Same here. Using Dracula wherever I can.