The most epic theme meets Visual Studio Code. You can help by reporting issues here.
- Getting started
- Activate theme
- Set the accent color
- Override theme colors
- Recommended settings for a better experience
- Official Portings
- Other resources
- Contributors
- Backers
- Sponsors
Getting started
You can install this awesome theme through the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
Installation
Launch Quick Open:
- Linux
Ctrl+P - macOS
⌘P - Windows
Ctrl+P
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-material-theme:
git clone https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme.git Equinusocio.vsc-material-theme
Activate theme
Launch Quick Open:
- Linux
Ctrl + Shift + P - macOS
⌘ + Shift + P - Windows
Ctrl + Shift + P
Type theme, choose Preferences: Color Theme, and select one of the Material Theme variants from the list. After activation, the theme will set the correct icon theme based on your active theme variant.
Set the accent color
Launch Quick Open:
- Linux
Ctrl + Shift + P - macOS
⌘ + Shift + P - Windows
Ctrl + Shift + P
Type material theme, choose Material Theme: Set accent color, and pick one color from the list.
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
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Material Theme]": {
"comments": "#229977"
}
},
Advanced example
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": [
"punctuation.definition.comment",
"comment.block",
"comment.line",
"comment.block.documentation"
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#FF0000"
}
}
]
},
},
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"[Material Theme VARIANT]": {
"sideBar.background": "#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
}
Official Portings
Thanks to the Material Theme community you can use is with other softwares, here the official portings:
- Windows Terminal (by @julianlatest)
- IntelliJ IDEA (thanks to @ChrisRM and @mallowigi).
- Vim and NeoVim (by @kaicataldo)
- Vim (thanks to @hzchirs).
- Terminal OSX (thanks to @mvaneijgen).
- iTerm2 (by @Revod) and iTerm2 Palenight (by @jonathanspeek).
- Hyper.
- ConEmu (thanks to @rajadain).
- Slack App ( #263238,#2e3a40,#80CBC4,#FFFFFF,#13191C,#ffffff,#50fa7b,#FF5555 )
- Nylas N1 (thanks to @jackiehluo)
- Base16 (by @ntpeters)
- Bear Notes (by @r3volution11)
Other resources
- AppIcon: Download the official Material Theme app icon for Visual Studio code
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. (CONTRIBUTING.md).
Backers
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