Programmers are creatures of habit.

Visual Studio Themes Gallery
Visual Studio Themes Mac

For me personally, one of those things that I am very particular about is getting the colors on my IDE just right. It’s really that important to me, so I am willing to go that extra mile to ensure that this is the case.

This roadmap describes our vision for major work in Visual Studio 2022 for the calendar year 2021. Visual Studio 2022 has three key themes: Personal and Team productivity: we want to empower developers and teams with incredible scale and performance, a trusted and secure toolchain, and a more accessible, personalized environment. The default color theme for Visual Studio's user interface is called Blue. Let's change it to Dark. On the menu bar, which is the row of menus such as File and Edit, choose Tools Options. On the Environment General options page, change the Color theme selection to Dark, and then choose OK. Dark (21-30) Light (31-40) Colorful (41-50) Bonus: Icons (51-56) To install a theme in VS Code, simply visit the marketplace and select the theme you would like to download. To switch between installed themes, open the command palette with CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + P and type Preferences: Color Theme. You can then browse through your themes in the menu. This theme was inspired by the themes Visual Studio Dark+, Monokai, and Dustin Sander’s theme for “An Old Hope”. Custom CSS inspired by Wes Bos. Blue background for the Dark theme was inspired by Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl theme.

I’ve been using Son of Obsidian since VS 2013, and I really like it. .

Take a look at the sample screenshot below:

I find the muted autumnal colors extremely calming. So, it goes it without saying that I would make sure that it’s set up in Visual Studio 2019 before migrating. It had previously been challenging to get it on Visual Studio 2017, as there were breaking changes in the way the colors were organized.

Unfortunately, I do not have the reference I used to successfully access it on Visual Studio 2017. Luckily, it’s now possible to get it to Visual Studio 2019 pretty easily. I’d like to share it with other programmers out there in the hopes that someone might find it helpful.

Here’s how to do it:

You need to install the following Color Theme Editor in your studio
Once you have that installed, simply download the theme
Go to tools -> customize colors
Go to import theme and import the downloaded theme

Congratulations! Your Visual Studio should now be using the Son Of Obsidian coloring.

-->

In this how-to article, we'll customize the Visual Studio color theme from the default blue theme to the dark theme. Then, we'll customize the colors for two different types of text in the code editor. Best ppsspp settings for star ocean.

If you haven't already installed Visual Studio, go to the Visual Studio downloads page to install it for free.

If you haven't already installed Visual Studio, go to the Visual Studio downloads page to install it for free.

Set the color theme for the IDE

The default color theme for Visual Studio's user interface is called Blue. Let's change it to Dark.

On the menu bar, which is the row of menus such as File and Edit, choose Tools > Options.
On the Environment > General options page, change the Color theme selection to Dark, and then choose OK.
The color theme for the entire Visual Studio development environment (IDE) changes to Dark.

Tip

You can install additional predefined themes by installing the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor from the Visual Studio Marketplace. After you install this tool, additional color themes appear in the Color theme drop-down list.

Tip

You can create your own themes by installing the Visual Studio Color Theme Designer from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Change text colors in the editor

Now we'll customize some text colors for the editor. First, let's create a new XML file to see the default colors.

Visual Studio Themes Gallery

From the menu bar, choose File > New > File.
In the New File dialog box, under the General category, choose XML File, and then choose Open.
Paste the following XML below the line that contains <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>.
Notice that the line numbers are a turquoise-blue color, and the XML attributes (such as id='bk101') are a light blue color. We're going to change the text color for these items.
To open the Options dialog box, choose Tools > Options from the menu bar.
Under Environment, choose the Fonts and Colors category.
Notice that the text under Show settings for says Text Editor—this is what we want. Expand the drop-down list just to see the extensive list of places where you can customize fonts and text color.
To change the color of the line numbers text, in the Display items list, choose Line Number. In the Item foreground box, choose Olive.
Some languages have their own specific fonts and colors settings. If you are a C++ developer and you want to change the color used for functions, for example, you can look for C++ Functions in the Display items list.
Before we exit out of the dialog box, let's also change the color of XML attributes. In the Display items list, scroll down to XML Attribute and select it. In the Item foreground box, choose Lime. Choose OK to save our selections and close the dialog box.
The line numbers are now an olive color, and the XML attributes are a bright, lime green. If you open another file type, such as a C++ or C# code file, you'll see that the line numbers also appear in the olive color.

We explored just a couple ways of customizing the colors in Visual Studio. We hope that you'll explore the other customization options in the Options dialog box, to truly make Visual Studio your own.

Visual Studio Themes Mac

See also