Installing Your Theme

00:00 Once you’ve got a first impression over your theme, it’s a good idea to install it in VS Code. Usually themes are very lightweight, so there is no harm in installing a theme, trying it out, and if you don’t like it, uninstall it.

00:14 If you followed the lesson before where we were at the VS Code Marketplace, there I mentioned that VS Code themes are actually extensions. So if you want to install a theme, it’s the same as if you’re installing an extension.

00:27 So once you have decided on your theme, you can go to your extension sidebar and search for the theme name. In my case, I am looking for the Dobri theme now.

00:39 So I type Dobri, and then you can see there are two extensions popping up and usually VS Code does a good job in sorting the extensions by relevance so the one on top is often the popular extension, in this case, the popular theme, and underneath you sometimes find kind of like forks of this original theme, so really make sure to not install the wrong one, but the original one.

01:05 You can also verify this by looking at the downloads, the stars, and of course, going to the Marketplace page and installing the theme from there. Either on VS Code or on the Web, you have the big Install button, and once you click the Install button, VS Code installs your theme and then pops up the theme selector that you’ve seen in a former lesson where you can then traverse through your theme collection for this new theme.

01:33 Again, themes are often containers, so there are a bunch of variations in there that you can select. So let’s click through them.

01:42 I will select Dobri Next -A08- Midnight. Once I’ve decided on it, I hit Enter, and if you go to your settings.json, then you can see that now my workbench.colorTheme is Dobri Next -A08- Midnight.