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Material Light Theme

Material Light Theme

Rafael-Avalos

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A vibrant Material Design-inspired light theme with cheerful colors, broad language support, and a polished coding experience.
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Material Light Theme

Code with the elegance and freshness of Material Design
Codifica con la elegancia y frescura de Material Design

A vibrant, Material Design-inspired light theme with cheerful colors, broad language support, and a polished coding experience.


Preview

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Color Palette


Installation

Via VS Code Marketplace

  1. Open Extensions (Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X)
  2. Search for "Material Light Theme"
  3. Click Install
  4. Open Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) and select Preferences: Color Theme → Material Light Theme

Via VSIX

  1. Download the .vsix from Releases
  2. Open Command Palette → Extensions: Install from VSIX...
  3. Select the downloaded file

Color Palette

Role Color Hex
Background #fafbfc #fafbfc Editor, panels
Foreground #464646 #464646 Main text
Primary Accent #ff006a #ff006a Selection, status bar, active borders
Secondary Accent #55c1ff #55c1ff Badges, focus, functions
Strings #ffb400 #ffb400 Strings, markup links
Keywords #f767bb #f767bb Keywords, selectors
Types #ff006a #ff006a Type annotations, constants
Classes #3dccc7 #3dccc7 Classes, regexp
Functions #55c1ff #55c1ff Function calls
Variables #7fb800 #7fb800 Variables (italic)
Numbers #ff5c57 #ff5c57 Numeric constants
Comments #adb1c2 #adb1c2 Comments (italic)
Errors #ff5c56 #ff5c56 Errors, exceptions
Diff Added #ff006a #ff006a Git additions
Diff Deleted #ff5c57 #ff5c57 Git deletions

Supported Languages

JavaScript / TypeScript / JSX / TSX · HTML / CSS / SCSS / Less / Stylus · PHP · Python · Go · Rust · C / C++ · C# · Java · Swift · Kotlin · Scala · Dart · Ruby · Elixir · Elm · Erlang · Haskell · OCaml · Clojure · R · Lua · CoffeeScript · Reason · Objective-C · SQL · YAML · TOML · Markdown · Dockerfile · Shell · Twig · Django · Haml · Handlebars · Pug · WebAssembly · and more


Recommended Settings

For the best experience, pair this theme with:

{
  "editor.fontFamily": "'Cascadia Code', 'Fira Code', 'JetBrains Mono', 'SF Mono', monospace",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.fontSize": 14,
  "editor.lineHeight": 24,
  "editor.smoothScrolling": true,
  "editor.cursorBlinking": "phase",
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Material Light Theme",
  "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme"
}

Related

Check out the companion dark theme: Dark Colors Theme


License

MIT

Enjoy coding with Material Light Theme! ✨

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