Allows users to create and edit Visual Studio themes. Themes can customize colors used for menus, toolbars, tabs, titlebars, the text editor, and other environment colors.
Allows users to customize the Visual Studio 2019 color palette.
To download and install just the extended themes without the editor, check out the Color Themes Github Project.
This Channel 9 video gives an in-depth description of how to use the Editor.
Features & Benefits
Import and upgrade themes from Visual Studio 2017
Easily rename custom themes
Preview text color and background combinations in the theme editor before applying the theme
Choose from several prebuilt themes including a Light theme with a dark editor, a Dark theme with a light editor, two themes based on Ethan Schoonover's Solarized color palette, and four additional colored themes (Red, Green, Tan, Purple)
Ability to copy/paste, undo/redo, and multi-select edit color values
A new and improved color picker to easily change your theme’s colors
More Visual Studio UI that can be modified including most tool window backgrounds and selection colors
Customize your editor colors from the theme editor UI
Copy colors from existing themes to easily create variations on the prebuilt themes
Import and export themes to share themes across multiple machines or with friends
