Learning About Theme Types

00:00 Now there is one important thing for me to say to manage your expectations. When I talk about VS Code themes, I mean VS Code color themes. In VS Code, there are three theme types.

00:14 There is the color theme, that’s the overall color theming of your code editor, but then there are two other themes as well. One is the file icon theme. This kind of theme defines how icons look next to your file types in the sidebar.

00:30 So here, for example, there’s a standard file icon theme with the little Python icon next to the Python files or other icons next to other files. And if you want to have them more colorful, more individual, then you can look for file icon themes.

00:47 The third theme is the product icon theme. This type of theme manages how icons in VS Code look. So not the file icons, but for example, those big icons that you can see on the left.

01:02 Some of the themes I will show in this video course also provide file icons. But again, we’ll focus on the colors for now.