Communication ⚠️
This project is community-maintained. You can find the official Material Theme here.
The most epic theme meets Visual Studio Code. You can help by reporting issues here.
Getting started
You can install this awesome theme through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
Installation
Launch Quick Open:
Paste the following command and press Enter:
ext install material theme
And pick the one by Mattia Astorino (Equinusocio) (me) as author.
GitHub Repository Clone
Change to your .vscode/extensions VS Code extensions directory.
Depending on your platform it is located in the following folders:
Linux ~/.vscode/extensions
macOs ~/.vscode/extensions
Windows %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
Clone the Material Theme repository as Equinusocio.vsc-community-material-theme:
git clone https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-community-material-theme.git Equinusocio.vsc-community-material-theme
Activate theme
Launch Quick Open:
Type theme, choose Preferences: Color Theme, and select one of the Community Material Theme variants from the list. After activation, the theme will set the correct icon theme based on your active theme variant.
Override theme colors
You can override the Material Theme UI and schemes colors by adding these theme-specific settings to your configuration. For advanced customisation please check the relative section on the VS Code documentation.
Color Scheme override
Basic example
// Overrides colors
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"[Community Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"sideBar.background": "#ff0000",
}
},
// Overrides editor syntax colors and font style
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Community Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"comments": "#229977"
}
},
Advanced example
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Community Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation.definition.comment",
"comment.block",
"comment.line",
"comment.block.documentation"
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#FF0000"
}
}
]
},
},
Recommended settings for a better experience
{
// Controls the font family.
"editor.fontFamily": "Operator Mono",
// Controls the line height. Use 0 to compute the lineHeight from the fontSize.
"editor.lineHeight": 24,
// Enables font ligatures
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
// Controls if file decorations should use badges.
"explorer.decorations.badges": false
}
Other resources
- AppIcon: Download the official Material Theme app icon for Visual Studio code
