Developers spend so much time in their IDE of choice that it has to feel like a second home: it is not uncommon for devs to spend time to customize, often in minute details, the look and feel of their code editor to maximize their productivity.
My favorite editor by far is Visual Studio Code, the Marketplace has a growing number of extensions and Color Themes are a popular category, there are plenty of themes, colors, icons to choose from. But despite all this abundance I could not find a theme that reminded me of my other favorite environment (and book series): Harry Potter and Hogwarts š¤
So I decided to create my own, trying to stay as close as possible to the colors seen in the movie series and described by J.K.Rowling on Pottermore:
- Colours
- Red, green and shocking pink: the importance of wizarding world colours
- How do you colour coordinate the wizarding world?
- Colours or Pottermore
- damngoodshindig.comĀ for the Hogwarts and House crests
On the technical side, creating a color theme for VSCode is not complicated, the documentation has what’s needed to get started and follow along some samples:
- Theming (under extensibility reference)
- Color Theme
- Theme color reference
Maybe I’ll write a more detailed post about how to create a color theme in the near future, for now here the Hogwarts colors theme I came up with, give it a try and let me know what you think, open issues or add comments on Github or even submit pull requests if you want to help improve the theme š
- Visual Studio Marketplace: Hogwarts colors for VSCode
- Github repo: https://github.com/carlocardella/hogwarts-colors-for-vscode
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