Bold New VSCode Theme — Shades of Purple 💜🦄⚛

Shades of Purple Theme for VS Code

💜 I'm super excited to launch my new purple Visual Studio Code theme called → Shades of Purple (SOP) — it includes hand-picked & bold shades of purple 🦄 coz purple can be genius.

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Stats in One Week:

👉 Download Shades of Purple
🎩 Used by ~500+ developers (launched 2 days ago)
🌟 18+ five-star ratings
💥 VSCode Tip: http://VSCode.pro/tip/1
✅ Also available for Slack / #iTerm2 / #Hyper / Konsole / AlfredApp

Easy Installation

1. Open the extensions sidebar on Visual Studio Code
2. Search for Shades of Purple Theme
3. Click Install to install it.
4. Click Reload to reload your editor.
5. Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Shades of Purple.

Alternate Installation

1. Launch Quick Open using Cmd+P — or — Ctrl+P.
2. Paste the command ext install shades-of-purple
3. Click Install to install it.
4. Click Reload to reload the your editor.
5. Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Shades of Purple.

Best Custom Settings!

This theme works best with the following settings. Especially if you have the Operator mono font. Add it to your user settings JSON object.

You can also use a custom VSCode Shades-of-Purple icon that I created based on the work of amazing designer Dhanish called VSCode Icons.

// Theme Setup.
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Shades of Purple",
  "workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
  "editor.fontFamily": "Operator Mono, Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace",
  "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'Operator Mono', 'Inconsolata for Powerline', monospace",
  "editor.fontSize": 17,
  "editor.lineHeight": 24.65,
  "editor.letterSpacing": 0.5,
  "editor.fontWeight": "400",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.cursorStyle": "line",
  "editor.cursorWidth": 5,
  "editor.cursorBlinking": "solid",
  "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
  "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",
  "workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",
  "editor.glyphMargin": true,
  "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
  "explorer.confirmDragAndDrop": false,
  "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
  "files.trimFinalNewlines": true,
  // Formatting Optional.
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "prettier.eslintIntegration": true,
  "eslint.run": "onType",
  "eslint.autoFixOnSave": true,
  // MacOS Only Settings.
  "workbench.fontAliasing": "auto",
  "terminal.integrated.macOptionIsMeta": true,
  "workbench.statusBar.feedback.visible": false,

💜 I'll be teaching more about configuring this theme and your Visual Studio Code editor at VSCode.pro. Interested?! Sign up to become a VSCode Power User →

Put Shades of Purple In Other Places!

I have built other Shades of Purple themes for different software. Here's a list.

• 💜 VSCode theme — Shades of Purple
• 💜 iTerm2 theme — Shades of Purple
• 💜 Hyper™ theme — Shades of Purple
• 💜 Konsole theme — Shades of Purple
• 💜 Slack theme — Shades of Purple
• 💜 Alfred theme — Shades of Purple

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License & Attribution

Licensed as MIT ⓒ Ahmad Awais.

Thanks to VSCode team at Microsoft for creating such an awesome code editor. Also to the creator of other high contrast themes that served as an inspiration. This theme takes inspiration from many VSCode themes including but not limited to Cobalt themes by Roberto Achar, Ayu, Palenight themes, Dracula themes, etc. Thanks, Dhanish for awesome VSCode icons. And Icons8 for the icons in this readme.

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