Ways To Select The Theme Color In Visual Studio Code

Shweta Lodha
2 min readJun 24, 2022

If you are using Visual Studio Code, then you might have heard about themes. Basically there are two types of themes — Dark color theme and Light color theme.

In this article, I’ll show you multiple ways to select theme of your choice.

Using Settings

One way to open Color Theme, is by clicking on Settings icon shown on bottom left corner:

Using Command Palette..

Second option is to select Preferences: Color Theme from Command Palette…

From here, you can select any theme and in fact before selecting any theme, you can use mouse up-down arrow keys to see the preview as shown below:

If you are still looking for some other themes, then you can click on ‘Browse Additional Color Themes…’ from above screen shot and it will open a huge list of themes.

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