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50 VS Code themes for 2020

Geoff Stevens on January 06, 2020

If you're looking for a new theme to change up your code editor in the new year, I'm here to help! Check out a variety of stylish themes with uniqu...
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Cristopher

Time to spend another 2+ hours for choosing themes!

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Davy CHHOUK

hahhaha, that's time for happiness.

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Hanan Hamza

I can relate.

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lucasprag

At least you didn't fall in the trap of building your own yet haha

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Edwing123

This happens to me, I will not feel good until I find the one I (kinda) like.

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rtxa

Some great procrastination right there hehe!

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cambellajoe

I totally relate, this is me everytime 😅. It's unending quest.

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Jordan Schroter

Great list! I think I must have used half of the dark ones at one point or another. If you like browsing the latest vscode themes you might like a site I've been working on: vscodethemes.com.

As you've found out, browsing themes from the marketplace is a bit of a pain. You need to click into each theme and hope the author provided a decent screenshot.

I wanted a more consistent way to browse, hope others enjoy it too :)

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Prathamesh Mali

Your site looks beautiful and its functional. great work

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Dio Ilham D

Cool! Thanks for make this site happens.

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CSSKing

Thanx for your work!

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Arpit Agarwal || Full Stack Developer ||

The site is very helpful Jordan. Thanks for sharing.

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Victor Litvinenko

I've been looking for a dark low-contrast vscode theme, something not too harsh on my eyes yet beautiful.
Finally I published my own theme called Soft Colors:
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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BobSsponja

Cara, Adorei o seu Tema estava mesmo Stagnado utilizando apenas os Temas Padroes do vsc, ate me deparar com o seu! muito bom, Obrigado. :)

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Victor Litvinenko

Muito Obrigado! Que bom que você gostou do meu tema.

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Fat-Tony

I've tried thousands since I suck at development so I waste my time changing themes and my current is MOONLIGHT II but ROSE PINE is awesome too and more importantly super easy on the eyes.

MOONLIGHT

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

Rose Pine

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Gulajava Ministudio • Edited

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For theme and font, i'm using Mayukai Theme and Iosevka Mayukai Font . You can try that too.

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Mohamed I. • Edited

Love'em !

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Gulajava Ministudio

Thanks, glad you like it :)

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Danylo

Bruh, thank you. I already used Iosevka but this variant that you recommend it is so cool!

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Robert

Does anyone know what the name of this theme is? Thanks a lots.
dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...

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rediffusion • Edited

Hi! I looked at these themes, cheers! 😉

Light:

Atom One Light Theme
Bluloco Light
Brackets Light Pro
NetBeans Light Theme
Quiet Light for VSC
Hop Light
NotepadPlusPlus Remixed Theme
GitHub Light

Dark:
GitHub Plus Theme

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Vinicios de Lima Clarindo

jfiddle pro light

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Shreenanda

I am planning to shift to light theme :{
Because I don't like to keep the brightness of my computer high and without keeping the brightness high, it's not that much comfortable to work in dark theme.
Whenever I want to use browser, I have to reduce the brighness again..
It's very annoying...
If you guys have any solution, please let me know.
I don't really want to work with light theme :"{

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Hassuunna

Dark Reader turns your broswer into dark as well

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Shades of Purple generously smothers your workspace with only the most extravagant shades of purple, deftly balancing purple with purple on purple.

Wow, this is an amazing way to put it. Thank you for the kind words on my theme/work. I'm gonna steal that and make it the official description everywhere. Woohoo! 🥳🥳🥳

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Geoffrey Donahue

Some want their editor to be light and vibrant, while others can prefer dark as their eyes are hurt by bright colors. But I received good information for the most common and downloaded themes for VS Code here.

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Douglas Fugazi

Zeonica looks awesome. Thanks for sharing Geoff.

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Thanks for sharing but I can't find any reason to replace Night Owl with anything else...it's the best!

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Cedric Megnie

Hi, check out my theme G Dark Theme

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mfauzanf

What is that font used it Horizon Theme? It looks great btw

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Hans

thank you! went for aurora X.

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Révaz

love this. I finally opted for Horizon theme.

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Hassuunna

Can someone please help me know which theme is in here?
youtu.be/vYFZDRraMnw

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GNVageesh

Checkout the new theme... Codel that i made...marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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suraj-singh12

Great Help

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Uwenayo Alain Pacifique

cool ones.

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Liam Davis

Dude the helium icon theme is so good. Thank you.

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Israel Moreno 💀 • Edited

Thnks ! I like a lot adromeda theme, I dind't it know him.

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Vijay Rana

Finally, after one and half hours of testing, I finally settled with Color Theme: Atom One Dark AND File Icon Theme: Material Theme Icons Light

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Javier Riveros

Great article, Andromeda is the one I liked the most

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Minhazur Rahman Ratul

I love One dark pro

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saithan phothong

What is this theme and font?

dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...

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Ridho Putra

I'm using RBE Matrix Skin Theme + Chalice and may not be good for you

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Alex Patterson

I am such a visual person I am afraid to switch themes. I did about 3 months ago and it took me 1 month the remember what the new icons meant...lol

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David Koczka

I've been using Cobalt2 for a year or so. Pretty easy on the eyes, with great contrast and colouring.

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Theofanis Despoudis

It's theme night!

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Adam Wojnicki

My favorite one is Material theme with icons. I use it almost since I got into VS Code.

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Arthur Zhuk

VSCode default color scheme or bust.

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charles hollins

Amazing themes you shared. All the themes are good to use. Thanks.

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Marcos Vidolin
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Christian Gouw

u should try mayukai

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zplusfour

but how to activate the SynthWave wave?

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Sandeep194920 • Edited

What is the vscode theme used in this site ?
I found the theme interesting when going through dev.to/alexandrudanpop/correctly-h...

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ewertonASM

very good, a new one that I really like to use is Arkhan Theme

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Ziyad
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yuweitek2023

Thanks to the author for sharing, I like thisdash cam.

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Fernando

As a big fan of themes, thank you🙂