The most epic theme meets Visual Studio Code. You can help by reporting issues here.

• Getting started
  • Installation
• Activate theme
• Set the accent color
• Override theme colors
  • Color Scheme override
• 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) as author.

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": [
                    "comment",
                    "comment punctuation.definition.comment"
                ],
                "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 it with other software, here are the official portings:

• Windows Terminal (by @julianlatest)
• 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)
• Mattermost (by @k1r8r0wn)
• Material Theme to GitHub
• Fluent Terminal (by @idokaraderu)

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. [Contribute].

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Sponsors

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Copyright © 2019 Mattia Astorino & Alessio Occhipinti