NightOwlA refined Night Owl-inspired dark theme for Visual Studio 2022 and 2026, with carefully tuned editor colors and modern Visual Studio 2026 Fluent shell support. |
NightOwl A refined Night Owl-inspired dark theme for Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2026. NightOwl brings a comfortable deep-navy coding environment to Visual Studio with vivid but balanced syntax colors, strong readability, and full shell integration for the modern Visual Studio 2026 UI. Highlights Visual Studio 2022 + 2026 — one package for both generations. Modern VS 2026 shell support — includes semantic Shell and ShellInternal Fluent theme colors. Comfortable editor contrast — designed around a deep navy background with clear syntax separation. Broad editor coverage — tuned colors for C#, JSON, XML, Razor, HTML/CSS, C/C++, Python, and more. amd64 + arm64 — supports both Visual Studio architectures. No telemetry — the extension does not collect data. No network access — the theme runs entirely locally. Install and enable After installing the extension, open: Tools > Options > Environment > Visual Experience Then select: Color theme: NightOwl For Visual Studio 2026, also use: Editor appearance: Match Theme Compatibility Visual Studio 2022 (17.x) Visual Studio 2026 (18.x) Community Professional Enterprise amd64 arm64 Support Issues: https://github.com/MeisamSalehi/NightOwl/issues Email: mey3amsalehi@gmail.com Credits and license NightOwl for Visual Studio is based on the original Night Owl theme by Sarah Drasner and incorporates Visual Studio porting work by Mateusz Kalina / God0nlyKnows. The project is distributed under the MIT License, with upstream license notices preserved in the package. |