LiveRider Color Theme 🚀

LiveRider Color Theme is Rider-Insipired Color Theme from Jetbrains.

Installation

1. Install Visual Studio Code
2. Launch Visual Studio Code
3. Choose Extensions from menu
4. Search for d-exclaimation.liverider-color-theme
5. Click Install to install it
6. Click Reload to reload the Code
7. From the menu bar click: Code > Preferences > Color Theme > Pick LiveRider

Features

LiveRider provide a better more colorful yet controlled/tamed color scheme with a theme of blue, green and pink inspired by Jetbrains Rider to help you focus on the code and not get distraced by flashy color differences.

• Rich in color (I think)
• Tokens are colored so that it is as easy to differentiate as I can make it to be
• Less usage of white if possible i.e. operators.
• Does not change the default VSCode background color
• Does not hurt your eyes (Not too bright, not too high of constrast)
• Works for languages such as Typescript, Javascript, Elixir, Go and Python

Language support

• Typescript
• Javascript
• JSX
• Elixir
• Go
• Python
• Swift (This just happen to work)

... more coming soon, maybe.

Why this exist?

TLDR:

• A lot of color schemes are way too bright
• A lot of color schemes use very high contrast, too much for me
• The color choice is a bit distracting
• Rider Color Theme is awesome
• A lot of color schemes do not work so well with Go, Elixir, React

I like color schemes that isn't too high contrast, while still is colorful. I personally find a lot of color choices to be too distracting or to plain, and sometimes even both all at the same time. Changing the background theme is fine, but I like it as it is.

I also notice that for languages I often use does not look well with most color schemes, usually due to the way tokens are group together or just because it's not aimed at that language. All of this give me some reason to create my own and also at the time, I think why not, lol. I tried my best to make tokens easy to visibly differentiate, not by adding colors, but to alternate between ones that already look great.

There is a Rider Theme already, but it have a different set of languages supported, so I think I can offer something different. I still recommend using/checking that one for languages not supported by this extensions i.e. C#, C++, etc.

Obviously, this will never even exised if Jetbrains never created the Rider theme, so credit where credit is due. Thanks Jetbrains and Thanks VSCode for allowing me to publish this extension.

Licensed under Apache License Version 2.0