Glowing Dracula for VS Code

A vibrant, dark theme for Visual Studio Code — meticulously crafted to bring the beloved Glowing Dracula experience from JetBrains IDEs (like Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA) to your editor.

This theme combines a deep, dark background with vivid, carefully selected colors, leveraging full semantic highlighting for rich, meaningful colorization. The result?
✨ Improved readability
✨ Reduced eye strain
✨ A perfect companion for long coding sessions

Glowing Dracula in action :

🚀 Installation

1. Launch Visual Studio Code
2. Open the Extensions view → Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+X (Mac)
3. Search for Glowing Dracula
4. Click Install
5. Go to File → Preferences → Color Theme and select Glowing Dracula

🔧 Recommended Settings (for the best experience)

To get the full JetBrains-like experience, I recommend using JetBrains Mono and enabling a few extra tweaks.

Open your settings.json:
Ctrl+Shift+P → Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)

{
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Glowing Dracula",
    "editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",

    // File icons for a polished look
    "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",

    // Recommended Dart & Flutter settings
    "[dart]": {
        "editor.fontFamily": "JetBrains Mono",
        "editor.fontSize": 12,
        "editor.lineHeight": 22,
        "editor.formatOnSave": true,
        "editor.formatOnType": true,
        "editor.rulers": [80],
        "editor.selectionHighlight": false,
        "editor.tabCompletion": "onlySnippets",
        "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": "off"
    },
    "dart.previewFlutterUiGuides": true,
    "dart.previewFlutterUiGuidesCustomTracking": true,

    // Optional UI enhancements
    "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": "on",
    "tabnine.experimentalAutoImports": true
}

💬 Feedback & Contributions

🙌 I’d love to hear your thoughts!

💡 Found a bug or have a suggestion? → Open an Issue

📧 Contact: mymix20@gmail.com

🤝 Contributions are welcome via Pull Requests

❤️ Acknowledgements

This theme is heavily inspired by the original Glowing Dracula theme for JetBrains IDEs. All credit for the color palette and aesthetic goes to its original creators.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License