Color Folders is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows you to assign custom colors to folders and files in your workspace. Improve your project navigation, visually group related directories, and add flair to your coding environment.
🚀 Features
🌈 Assigns custom theme colors to commonly used folders like src, test, components, assets, config, and many more.
🧠 Over 80+ predefined folder color assignments for a wide variety of project structures.
💡 Enhances readability and navigation in large codebases.
🖌️ Seamlessly works with both light and dark themes.
📦 Installation
Open VS Code
Go to the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X)
Search for Color Folders
Click Install
⚙️ Usage
This extension automatically applies folder colors based on folder names when the editor starts.
No additional configuration is required, but you can override or customize colors via your settings.json:
Add/Change Custom Folder Colors
Open Settings (JSON)
Edit the colorFolders.customOverrides setting like this:
Assign color62 to experiments folder. You can create your own folder and assign custom colors this way. The supported color keys are folderColor.color1 to folderColor.color83
Demo
Built-in Folders Names
Folder Name
Folder Name
Folder Name
Folder Name
Folder Name
Folder Name
Folder Name
src
test
public
assets
components
utils
config
scripts
build
dist
notebooks
data
models
logs
venv
routes
lib
services
middleware
api
.github
.vscode
.devcontainer
chroma_db
frontend
design
docs
research
styles
themes
source
store
pages
layouts
server
env
shared
artifacts
bin
examples
types
migrations
database
schemas
client
constants
uploads
downloads
static
images
icons
media
pipeline
seeds
tmp
videos
logging
tools
templates
third_party
monitoring
analytics
experiments
jobs
train
tasks
notes
val
diagrams
backend
environments
dev
prod
staging
feature
ai
ml
nlp
backup
app
myenv
errors
key
🤝 Contribution
Feel free to open issues or pull requests on GitHub.
🧑💻 Author
Muneeb Ul Hassan |
AI Developer & Open Source Contributor.
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