HalloweenSmith Themes — Halloween Night and Halloween Light

Two Halloween color themes for Visual Studio, for the whole IDE and the code editor. Halloween Night is a plum-black night with pumpkin keywords; Halloween Light is an old parchment by candlelight. Seasonal — 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

Halloween Night

Keywords glow like a carved pumpkin, types are slime green, strings potion purple, numbers ghost cyan, methods candle gold; comments drift by in grey mist. The status bar is a witch's purple — and turns pumpkin while you debug.

Halloween Light

Burnt-pumpkin keywords, moss-green types, plum-ink strings, wax-amber methods and sepia comments on warm parchment.

Made for coding

• The main syntax colors have a contrast of at least 4.5:1 with the background.
• Errors are blood red, warnings amber, messages blue — they never blend with the orange keywords.
• 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 › Halloween Night (or Halloween 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/halloweensmith.