Stylesmith

Style VS Code your way.
Keep it secure.

A safe way to customize VS Code: your own CSS and JS, with its security policy kept on.
A retro and cyberpunk style kit: themes, icons, fonts and effects.

Install View on GitHub

VS Code with the Night City preset: a dark indigo theme with pink and cyan neon code, glowing highlights, pixel file icons, and errors shown on their lines.

Presets

A preset sets up a complete look in one step: a color theme, the pixel icons, a Nerd Font and a set of effects. Afterwards you can still change anything on its own.

Night City: dark indigo with pink and cyan neon, and glowing code.
Night City Cyberpunk neon, glowing code, sparks and a boot sequence.
Phosphor Terminal: green text on black in a pixel font, with square panels.
Phosphor Terminal A green CRT terminal with a pixel font, scanlines and a square layout.
Amber Monitor: amber text on a dark brown background, with square panels.
Amber Monitor An amber monochrome monitor with scanlines and a square layout.
Black ICE: iced white and frost cyan text on a cold blue-black background, in a narrow techno font.
Black ICE Cold white phosphor and the glowing ICE of cyberpunk, with glowing code and terminal.
Daylight: a warm light theme with dark text and subtle colored highlights.
Daylight Calm and bright, with only the subtle effects.

There's also a High Contrast preset, with nothing that moves.

Or pick and mix

Click the paint-can button at the right end of the status bar to apply a preset, turn each effect on or off, or change the font. Prefer files? You can set everything in settings.json: the README lists every setting with a short comment.

The Stylesmith menu, opened from the outlined paint-can button in the status bar: Apply a preset, then every effect with on or off.

What's in the kit

Your own CSS and JS

Add your own files to change anything in VS Code's interface. They stay in place until you turn them off, and a VS Code update doesn't make you start over: Stylesmith offers to apply them again.

Effects

A gliding caret, a neon current line, glowing code and terminal text, code blocks and selections, CRT scanlines, typing sparks, a boot sequence and a glitch on save. The loud ones are off until you turn them on, and none of them do any work while you're idle.

Problem Lens

Errors and warnings right on their line: a soft tint, a pixel icon in the gutter, the message at the end of the line, and the problem in the status bar.

Seven color themes

Dark, light and high contrast. Every theme is checked against the WCAG contrast levels and simulated for color blindness, so the colors that carry meaning stay apart.

Nerd Fonts

JetBrainsMono, BlexMono, ShureTechMono and DepartureMono, bundled and set for the editor and terminal. Your own fonts stay as fallbacks.

Classic layout

Prefer square corners and tabs that look like tabs? One switch brings back the classic look of VS Code, and puts your settings back when you turn it off.

Security comes first

Tools that change VS Code's look have to change VS Code's own files. Stylesmith does it without turning off what keeps VS Code secure:

Found a problem? Please report it privately, as described in the security policy.

Install

Get Stylesmith from the VS Code Marketplace: search for "Stylesmith" in the Extensions view, or run: 

code --install-extension 21010.stylesmith

Get it on the Marketplace

Then open the Command Palette and run Stylesmith: Enable, or click the paint-can button in the status bar and pick a preset. The README explains every setting.

Each version is also on GitHub as a .vsix file with a signed build provenance, so you can check that it was built from the public source.

Support Stylesmith

Stylesmith is free and open source, with no ads and no tracking. If it makes your editor a nicer place to work, you can support its development through GitHub Sponsors.

♡ Sponsor on GitHub