LunarNewYearSmith Themes — Lunar New Year Night and Lunar New Year Light

Two Lunar New Year color themes for Visual Studio, for the whole IDE and the code editor. Lunar New Year Night is red lacquer in lantern light; Lunar New Year Light is rice paper with vermilion and jade. Gold, red and jade — 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

Lunar New Year Night

Keywords are gold, types jade, strings coral lanterns, numbers the night sky, methods peony; comments are warm smoke. The window frame is deep lacquer red, the status bar imperial red — jade while you debug.

Lunar New Year Light

Vermilion keywords, jade types, gold-ink strings, peony methods and brown-ink comments on rice paper.

Made for coding

• The main syntax colors have a contrast of at least 4.8:1 with the background.
• Red is everywhere in this festival, so the error squiggle is a brighter, colder red than anything in the code; warnings stay amber, messages blue.
• 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 › Lunar New Year Night (or Lunar New Year 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/lunarnewyearsmith.