Top VSCode Themes and Icons

Filipe Pires
Nerd For Tech
Published in
4 min readMar 12, 2023

As a developer, it’s important to create a visually pleasant and comfortable workspace. I have curated a selection of themes and icons to help personalize your coding environment and add some graphical delight.

Take a look and find the perfect one for you!

Instructions for Installation: I didn’t include the marketplace URL in the list items, if you want to install anything from list, only type the name and check the author’s name in the Extensions Tab in VSCode (Ctrl|Cmd-Shift-X)

note: I also have an article on my Top VSCode Extensions, you can read it where.

My Recommend themes list :

  • Andromeda — by Eliver Lara
  • Ariake Dark — by wart
  • Ayu — by teabyii
  • Celestial — by Varun A P
  • Cobalt 2 Theme Official — by Wes Bos
  • codeSTACKr Theme — by codestackr
  • Dracula Official — by Dracula Theme
  • FireFly Pro — by Ankit Mishra
  • Horizon Theme — by Alexander Nanberg
  • Midnight City — by Dillon Chanis
  • Midnight Synth — by Eric Kelley
  • Natty — by this-fifo
    (I’m currently using this with Vibrancy Continued Extension)
  • Night Owl — by sara.drasner
  • Noctis — by Liviu Schera
  • JellyFish Theme— by Pawel Borkar
  • One Dark Pro — by binaryfy
  • Outrun — by samrapdev
  • Palenight Theme — by Olaolu Olawuyi
  • Pink-Cat-Boo Theme — by Fiona Fan
  • SynthWave ’84 — by Robb Owen ( this is my current theme — with glow effect enabled, of course, because I’m a geek)
  • Tokyo Night — by enkia

Icons List, because they are cool :

  • Fluent Icons — by Miguel Solorio
    note: this only changes the side bar icons for clear meaning.
  • Material Icon Theme — by Philip Kief
  • Monokai Pro — by monokai

If I come across any more lovely themes or icons, I will undoubtedly update this article with new information. I hope you find some cool theming for your workspace here, and if you do, please 👏 clap.

Please also read my article for Top VSCode Extensions, which you can find here.

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Filipe Pires
Nerd For Tech

Dad, Senior Software Engineer, Game Dev & Collector, Electronic Prototyping & much more. Passionate about building the future with code.