ChristmasSmith Themes — Christmas Night and Christmas Light

Two Christmas and New Year color themes for Visual Studio, for the whole IDE and the code editor. Christmas Night is a winter night by the tree; Christmas Light is a snowy morning. Cranberry baubles, pine branches and gold tinsel — festive, and still comfortable for a full working day.

Free. Forever. No subscriptions, no "pro" version, no data collection, no messages at startup. There is no code inside, only colors — so it never asks for anything, not even a rating.

📖 Documentation · Visual Studio 2022 and 2026 · x64 and ARM64

Christmas Night

Keywords are cranberry baubles, types pine branches, strings gold tinsel, numbers ice, methods gingerbread; comments are frosted glass. The status bar is a red bauble — gold while you debug.

Christmas Light

Snow-white background with blue-grey ink, cranberry keywords, pine-green types, gold strings and gingerbread methods.

Made for coding

• The main syntax colors have a contrast of at least 5:1 with the background.
• Keywords are cranberry, not pure red, so a bright red error squiggle still stands out; warnings are amber, messages blue.
• Types differ from keywords in brightness too, not only in red and green.
• Selection, current line, find highlight, highlighted references and brace matching all have their own clear colors.
• C# and Visual Basic get every color (methods, parameters, interfaces, type parameters); other languages use the shared ones.

Turn it on

Visual Studio 2026: Tools › Theme › Christmas Night (or Christmas Light), and keep Tools › Editor Appearance on Match Theme — otherwise the editor keeps the usual colors.

Visual Studio 2022: Tools › Options › Environment › General › Color Theme.

Colors you changed yourself in Fonts and Colors stay on top of any theme.

A color looks wrong? Use the Q & A tab on this page or the Feedback repository, ideally with a screenshot. Full documentation: lazowskianton.github.io/VSExtensions/christmassmith.