visual-studio-code
An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Visual Studio Code theme. (by nordtheme)
catppuccin
😸 Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited! (by catppuccin)
| visual-studio-code | catppuccin | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 68 | |
| 1,123 | 19,288 | |
| -0.3% | 1.3% | |
| 0.0 | 8.6 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
visual-studio-code
Posts with mentions or reviews of visual-studio-code.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
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Solarized dark for me.
Nord by arcticicestudio
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KDE/Plasma Nordish
VS Code - Nord
catppuccin
Posts with mentions or reviews of catppuccin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-02.
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Introducing LlamaStash: a zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher
Five themes plus custom. Catppuccin Macchiato is the default because of course it is.
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My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine
Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato everywhere. I just love this color theme.
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The Complete Company Landing Page - Holistic Webdev Challenge
Catppuccin color palette
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From iTerm To WezTerm
Next, I want to change the theme and set it to follow the current system theme automatically. For the past year, I have been using Catppuccin themes, and I am very happy with them. They rarely have issues where some text colors blend with the background. To make the theme switch automatically based on the current system theme, we need to write a small Lua function (I copied it from the documentation):
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The Monokai Color Scheme
The only other scheme I like is Catppuccin (I use Catpuccin Frappé in dark mode, as it's the lightest of the dark variants.) A colleague recommended it and I was a quick convert.
See https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin or https://catppuccin.com/ . I wish they included screenshots, it's really hard to say 'check out this theme' without being able to link one. And I can't screenshot the code I have available in VSCode ;)
- Terminal Colours Are Tricky
- Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby
- Dracula Theme for Hacker News
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My Gnome 45 Endgame Setup w/ Catppuccin!
Made possible by the Catppuccin Theme, you can find it here. I personally use the Mocha variant with the Flamingo accent.
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Jumped on Debian bandwagon to finally have ONE thing stable in life, couldn't be happier.
Didn't get your question sorry. This is Debian 12 with KDE Plasma desktop with Catppuccin color-scheme.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing visual-studio-code and catppuccin you can also consider the following projects:
vscode-vibrancy-continued - Enable Acrylic/Glass effect for your VS Code.
dracula-theme - 🧛🏻♂️ One theme. All platforms.
vscode-adwaita - VS Code theme for the GNOME desktop
gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim
Monocraft - A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface
nord - An arctic, north-bluish color palette.