

Other than that, I have no input on the name of this extension. Where I live, in extreme northwest Montana, winter is always coming. Thirteen community members have contributed to the project, which has been awarded 1,236 stars and has been forked 99 times. This preview extension was released in April 2020 and was last updated in April 2021. GitHub announced the availability of dark and dimmed themes in April. It's described as "GitHub themes from VS Code." That means developers, upon clicking the Install button, are offered the choice of installing: GitHub Theme (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace). It comes from Mahmoud Ali and boasts 2,306,670 installs and a 4.8 rating from 91 reviewers, one of whom said: "When I want to use a dark theme, this is one that I choose. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing while keeping you focused."ĭon't look for a light color scheme option, though, because " Dracula can't stand the light."Īs noted, this served as the inspiration of the second-most popular theme described above, One Dark Pro. Made for terminal emulators, code editors, and syntax highlighters. There's also a Dracula Pro: "Dracula PRO is a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. Its GitHub site shows a whopping 15,976 stars and 1,537 forks. I can get it for my other apps and have exactly the same experience all the time." Also, the availability of this theme is huge!!! 150+ apps. And it is OK for bigger more or less bright displays. The contrasts are exactly as I like and can easily read. "After trying different other themes, I feel very comfortable with this one.

It sports 2,453,730 installs, and 81 reviewers have bestowed an average 4.9 rating. Dracula Official (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace). It's based on Atom's One Dark theme, which shows up on our list a bit later. Further speaking to its popularity are the 327 forks, 70 pull requests and 848 stars adorning the associated GitHub project.Ĭoming from binaryify, this is more of a traditional full-theme extension, not just icons. Developers can customize various characteristics such as folder colors and the opacity, saturation and file associations.Īlthough the extension has been around since 2016, it is continually updated - the last change was made 11 hours previous to this writing - with the help of more than 180 community contributors. Specifically, this extension focuses on Material Design icons - hundreds and hundreds of icons - for different types of files and folders. "Design and strategize how your app is built using foundations that address design from both a broad and detailed perspective." "Material Design defines the qualities that can be expressed by UI regions, surfaces, and components," Google says. Material Icon Theme (source: Visual Studio Code Marketplace).Īs the name suggests, it follows Google's Material Design scheme, eschewing Microsoft's own Fluent Design counterpart (here's a comparison between the two).
