The Best Visual Studio Code Dark and Light Themes (Updated August 2019)
3 min readJul 11, 2018
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The Best Dark Theme: Night Owl
Updated April 2019: Night Owl now includes a Light variant:
A great Light theme: bluloco-light
Updated (Oct 1, 2018): Awesome Dark Theme I didn’t know: Shades of Purple
- Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple
- GitHub: https://github.com/ahmadawais/shades-of-purple-vscode
Update (Oct 18, 2018): Min
This one came out recently. Miguel is a designer at Microsoft.
- Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=miguelsolorio.min-theme
- GitHub: https://github.com/misolori/min-theme
Update (Oct 20, 2018): Noctis
My new favorite theme.
- Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liviuschera.noctis
- GitHub: https://github.com/liviuschera/noctis
Update (Feb 2019): Yi Dark & Yi Light
A great port of One Dark & One Light from Atom.
- Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wangweixuan.yithemes
- GitHub: https://github.com/wangweixuan/yithemes
This works great with OneHalf terminal theme.
Update (Aug 2019): New England
Kind of like solarized light but better for your eyes.
New England has a comfortable and legible contrast that will handle long hours at the screen, variable display brightness, and late-night redshifting by f.lux or Night Shift.
- Download: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dustypomerleau.new-england
- GitHub: https://github.com/dustypomerleau/new-england
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