Your final product will be a Visual Studio extension that puts your theme alongside the default themes under Tools -> Options. The new ‘Preview’ mode lets you see edits real-time before fully saving and applying your theme. For more specific customizations, the redesigned ‘Common elements’ and ‘All elements’ tabs allow you to edit all color tokens individually. We’re introducing ‘Quick start,’ a feature that lets you create a custom theme in minutes by picking three base colors. Just check out the new Themes category in the Visual Studio Marketplace to download themes that other users have published.įor theme designers, the new Color Theme Designer comes with a more familiar startup workflow and a simplified design. A new theming experienceįinding and using a new theme is now as easy as downloading any other extension. This summer, a group of interns has developed a newly released Color Theme Designer extension, and we’re hoping that making custom themes just got a whole lot simpler for beginner and advanced designers alike.

If you were brave enough to create your own theme, you had to edit elements one by one from an unorganized list of 3,000+ vaguely named color tokens. One of the only ways to import themes was to download the older Color Theme Editor extension.

Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes. Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough.

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