Vesper for Visual Studio
A minimal, dark theme built around a single warm accent — ported to Visual Studio 2026's
Fluent theming system from Vesper,
the popular VS Code theme by Rauno Freiberg.
Vesper keeps things quiet: a near-black canvas, soft white text, and one accent color —
a warm peach — doing double duty across buttons, links, tags, types, and functions. Mint
green and a muted red round out strings and errors. Nothing else competes for your
attention.
Highlights
- Full IDE coverage — not just the code editor. Shell chrome, tool windows, the
status bar, dialogs, and the Start Page all follow the same palette.
- Multi-language syntax support — tuned for C#, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML,
XML, XAML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, and Razor/
.cshtml, including ASP.NET Core tag
helpers and Blazor components.
- ReSharper-aware — if you have ReSharper installed, its own classifiers (C#, C++,
CSS, HTML, regex, and more) follow the same color rules as the native editor, so the
theme doesn't fall apart the moment ReSharper takes over highlighting.
Palette
|
Color |
Used for |
| ⬛ |
#101010 |
Editor and shell background |
| ⬜ |
#FFFFFF |
Primary text, variables |
| 🟧 |
#FFC799 |
The accent — buttons, links, tags, types, functions |
| 🟩 |
#99FFE4 |
Strings |
| 🟥 |
#FF8080 |
Errors |
| ⬜ |
#A0A0A0 |
Keywords, secondary text |
Installation
- Install this extension.
- Restart Visual Studio.
- Go to Tools → Options → Environment → General → Color theme and select Vesper.
Credits
Vesper was originally created by Rauno Freiberg for Visual
Studio Code. This extension is an unofficial, community port of the same palette to
Visual Studio's theming system and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original
author.
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