Best VSCode Theme of 2021
Shades of Purple VSCode theme is featured as a best VSCode theme of 2021.
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I have been using Sublime for over ten years, but last year, as a full-time open source developer — I got inspired by the new open source editor called VSCode or Visual Studio Code.
Fast forward one year and I am an avid power user of VSCode. I fell in love with how easy it is to improve VSCode and make it better for everyone.
VSCode community has empowered me enough to do the following things which I am super proud of:
- 👨🏫 I’m helping people become VSCode Power Users →
- ✅ I got contribution props for contributing to VSCode →
- 🔥 I’ve shared a number of pro VSCode Tips & Tricks →
- 🦄 I created an awesome Shades of Purple VSCode theme →
And yes, that’s what you’re here for. So, pardon my clickbaity title for a shameless plug — I did, however, put a lot of work into making this Shades of Purple theme perfect.
🦄 Shades of Purple VSCode Theme →
Shades of Purple is a professionally crafted VSCode theme which I built by hand-picking a bunch of shades of purple that look good and feel easy on our eyes. You’re supposed to 💜 these bold shades of purple.
Got this theme reviewed by several designers and that has led to ~70 new releases of this theme and 1,017,632+ developers are using it daily.
Video Demo & Installation
Watch the following video on YouTube to find out more about Shades of Purple theme. Learn how to install it and a little bit about its features like markdown editing — which is quite pretty awesome with SOP.
Easy Installation
- Open the extensions sidebar on Visual Studio Code
- Search for Shades of Purple Theme
- Click Install to install it.
- Click Reload to reload your editor.
- Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Shades of Purple.
Alternate Installation
- Launch Quick-Open using Cmd+P — or — Ctrl+P.
- Paste the command
ext install shades-of-purple - Click Install to install it.
- Click Reload to reload your editor.
- 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 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’m teaching more about configuring this theme and your Visual Studio Code editor at VSCode.pro. Interested?! Sign up to become a VSCode Power User →
Screenshots:
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: Markdown
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: JavaScript
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: PHP
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: HTML
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: Pug
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: Python
🦄 Shades of Purple syntax for: Go
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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I (Ahmad Awais) am a Full Stack Web Developer and a regular core contributor at WordPress. My significant other (Maedah Batool) is a Technical Project Manager, and she’s also a WordPress Core Contributor. Together with our team, we run the WPCouple.com.
Learn to become a VSCode Power User →
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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. VSCode and Icons8 for the icons in this readme.
