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heme</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="4b76">3. Dracula</h1><p id="30c7">Dracula is a beautiful dark theme for Visual Studio Code. Also, the Dracula theme has an interesting origin story, <a href="https://draculatheme.com/about">read it here</a>.</p><figure id="b9f5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*szgvClps21mbCgTwk6k0Yw.png"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dracula-theme.theme-dracula">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dracula-theme.theme-dracula</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="8b40">4. Shades of Purple</h1><p id="83c2">Shades of Purple is a professional theme with hand-picked and bold shades of purple for your VS Code editor and terminal. One of the excellent, most-downloaded and top-rated VS Code themes on the marketplace.</p><figure id="e7a2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*u1D0ul7jHUKb3tcgohLh0w.gif"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="5115">5. Winter Is Coming</h1><p id="e69c">This theme was inspired by the themes Visual Studio Dark+, Monokai, and <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dustinsanders.an-old-hope-theme-vscode">Dustin Sander’s theme for “An Old Hope”</a>. Custom CSS inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/wesbos">Wes Bos</a>.</p><p id="6385">Blue background for the Dark theme was inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/sarah_edo">Sarah Drasner</a>’s <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sdras.night-owl">Night Owl theme</a>.</p><figure id="92c1"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*iTiMubyCRO8NylWDNzJKag.png"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winteriscoming">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winteriscoming</a></figcaption></figure><h2 id="ad2e">Winter Is Coming Light</h2><figure id="ecae"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*uMLIf5qo1fjA4OtU5LfJfQ.png"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winteriscoming">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winter

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iscoming</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="382f">6. Ayu</h1><p id="7521">Ayu is a simple theme with bright colors and comes in three versions — <i>dark</i>, <i>light,</i> and <i>mirage</i> for all-day-long comfortable work.</p><figure id="3129"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*_FE6j1FEfWegpMkZoiodeA.png"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=teabyii.ayu">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=teabyii.ayu</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="b959">7. Night Owl</h1><p id="12a3">Night Owl is a Visual Studio Code theme for the night owls out there. Fine-tuned for those of us who like to code late into the night.</p><p id="fdcf">Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with colorblindness and in low-light circumstances. Decisions were also based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle-dazzle.</p><figure id="8bfe"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Tj_1Q2uFMJ87SsKJUHerZQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sdras.night-owl">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sdras.night-owl</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="ce7a">8. Palenight</h1><p id="e7b3">Palenight is an elegant and juicy material-like theme for Visual Studio Code.</p><figure id="8850"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*UOM0tBb0EiTUKQqADJpwpA.png"><figcaption>Download here: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=whizkydee.material-palenight-theme">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=whizkydee.material-palenight-theme</a></figcaption></figure><h1 id="8c5a">Conclusion</h1><p id="3113">Thanks for reading, I hope you found at least one theme you like and can start using today. Coding editors don’t have to be ugly, so tweak them as you like and make them great.</p><p id="1a4b">The best way to keep up to date with my content is through my <a href="https://wholesomedev.substack.com/welcome">newsletter</a>. Be the first one to get notified.</p><figure id="1b65"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*dds734n3RiKUVOqyHK0Aqw.png"><figcaption>my <a href="https://wholesomedev.substack.com/welcome">newsletter</a>. Be the first one to get notified.</figcaption></figure></article></body>

8 Awesome Themes for Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio Code is a code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control and GitHub, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring

Visual Studio Code is by far one of the most popular code editors for web, mobile, and hardware developers. VSC is flexible, you can rearrange everything just the way you like it.

You can install extensions and themes to improve developer experience and productivity. As a bonus, here’s a list of useful extensions you can start using today.

Without further ado, here are eight awesome VSC themes you can start using today.

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1. SynthWave ‘84

This color scheme is influenced by the music and the cover artwork of modern Synthwave bands like FM-84, Timecop 1983, and The Midnight.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen.synthwave-vscode

2. One Dark Pro

Atom’s iconic One Dark theme, and one of the most installed themes for VS Code.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zhuangtongfa.Material-theme

3. Dracula

Dracula is a beautiful dark theme for Visual Studio Code. Also, the Dracula theme has an interesting origin story, read it here.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dracula-theme.theme-dracula

4. Shades of Purple

Shades of Purple is a professional theme with hand-picked and bold shades of purple for your VS Code editor and terminal. One of the excellent, most-downloaded and top-rated VS Code themes on the marketplace.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ahmadawais.shades-of-purple

5. Winter Is Coming

This theme was inspired by the themes Visual Studio Dark+, Monokai, and Dustin Sander’s theme for “An Old Hope”. Custom CSS inspired by Wes Bos.

Blue background for the Dark theme was inspired by Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl theme.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.winteriscoming

Winter Is Coming Light

6. Ayu

Ayu is a simple theme with bright colors and comes in three versions — dark, light, and mirage for all-day-long comfortable work.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=teabyii.ayu

7. Night Owl

Night Owl is a Visual Studio Code theme for the night owls out there. Fine-tuned for those of us who like to code late into the night.

Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with colorblindness and in low-light circumstances. Decisions were also based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle-dazzle.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sdras.night-owl

8. Palenight

Palenight is an elegant and juicy material-like theme for Visual Studio Code.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=whizkydee.material-palenight-theme

Conclusion

Thanks for reading, I hope you found at least one theme you like and can start using today. Coding editors don’t have to be ugly, so tweak them as you like and make them great.

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