athahersirnaik/vsc-material-theme

Material Theme, the most epic theme for Visual Studio Code

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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 vsc-material-theme

Packaged VSIX Extension

Download the latest .vsix release file from the GitHub repository and install it from the command line

code --install-extension vsc-material-theme-*.*.*.vsix

or from within VS Code by launching Quick Open and running the Install from VSIX... command.

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/equinusocio/vsc-material-theme.git Equinusocio.vsc-material-theme

Activate theme

Launch Quick Open,

• Linux Ctrl+P
• macOS Shift+⌘+P
• Windows Ctrl+P

Type theme and choose Preferences: Color Theme, then select Material Theme from the list.

This theme provides different color variants, to change the active theme variant type Material Theme and choose Material Theme: Settings, then select Change color variant and pick one theme from the list.

Activate File Icons

Launch Quick Open,

• Linux Ctrl+P
• macOS Shift+⌘+P
• Windows Ctrl+P

type icon theme and select Material Theme Icons from the drop-down menu.

Set the accent color

Launch Quick Open,

• Linux Ctrl+P
• macOS Shift+⌘+P
• Windows Ctrl+P

Type Material Theme and choose Material Theme: Settings, then select Change accent color and pick one color from the list.

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,

Other resources

• AppIcon: Download the official Material Theme app icon for Visual Studio code

Acknowledgements

• @OctoD for the typescript theme builder.

Copyright © 2017 Mattia Astorino and Paolo Roth