Shades of Purple Theme for VS Code

🦄 Shades of Purple (SOP) A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple for your VS Code editor and terminal. One of the excellent most downloaded and top rated VSCode Themes on the marketplace. Become a Visual Studio Code Power User →
A FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) project developed by Ahmad Awais.
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Video Demo & Installation

Watch the following video on YouTube to find out more about Shades of Purple theme. Learn how to install it and a little bit about it's features like markdown editing — which's quite pretty awesome with SOP. Shhh this video is part of VSCode.pro course →

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Easy Installation

1. Open the extensions sidebar on Visual Studio Code
2. Search for Shades of Purple Theme
3. Click Install to install it.
4. Click Reload to reload your editor.
5. Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Shades of Purple.
6. 🌟 Rate five-stars like 110+ awesome devs to appreciate the effort behind this theme.

Alternate Installation

1. Launch Quick Open using Cmd+P — or — Ctrl+P.
2. Paste the command ext install shades-of-purple
3. Click Install to install it.
4. Click Reload to reload the your editor.
5. Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Shades of Purple.
6. 🌟 Rate five-stars like 110+ awesome devs to appreciate the effort on this theme.

Best Custom Settings

This theme works best with the following settings. Especially if you have the Operator mono font. Add it to your user settings JSON object.

You can also use a custom VSCode Shades-of-Purple icon that I created based on the work of VSCode Icons.

// Theme Setup.
"workbench.colorTheme": "Shades of Purple",
"workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
"editor.fontFamily": "Operator Mono, Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace",
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'Operator Mono', 'Inconsolata for Powerline', monospace",
"editor.fontSize": 17,
"editor.lineHeight": 24.65,
"editor.letterSpacing": 0.5,
"editor.fontWeight": "400",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.cursorStyle": "line",
"editor.cursorWidth": 5,
"editor.cursorBlinking": "solid",
"editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
"editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",
"workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",
"editor.glyphMargin": true,
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
"explorer.confirmDragAndDrop": false,
"files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
"files.trimFinalNewlines": true,
// Formatting Optional.
"editor.formatOnSave": true,
"prettier.eslintIntegration": true,
"eslint.run": "onType",
"eslint.autoFixOnSave": true,
// MacOS Only Settings.
"workbench.fontAliasing": "auto",
"terminal.integrated.macOptionIsMeta": true,
"workbench.statusBar.feedback.visible": false,
// The default syntax (TextMate) highlighter classifies many tokens as variables and these are now (since VSCode 1.43) resolved into namespaces, classes, parameters, and so on. This is called Semantic highlighting support for TypeScript and JavaScript. But many themes and language extensions seem broken with single-colored syntax. This came as a surprise to me. It's set `true` by default. I recommend disabling this for now.
"editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": false,
// SOP's highlight matching tag setting.
"highlight-matching-tag.styles": {
    "opening": {
        "full": {
            "highlight": "rgba(165, 153, 233, 0.3)"
        }
    }
},
// SOP's Import Cost Extension Settings.
"importCost.largePackageColor": "#EC3A37F5",
"importCost.mediumPackageColor": "#B362FF",
"importCost.smallPackageColor": "#B362FF"

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Frequently Asked Questions

• 👌 Shades of Purple VSCode Theme With No Italics
• 👌 Matching styles for the “Highlight Matching Tag” extension?
• 👌 Matching styles for the “Indent Rainbow” extension?
• 👌 Can you share your VSCode Power User Setup?

Screenshots: Shades of Purple Theme

Put Shades of Purple In Other Places

I have built other Shades of Purple themes for different software. Here's a list.

• 🦄 VSCode theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 iTerm2 theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Hyper™ theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Chrome theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 HighlightJS theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Konsole theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Slack theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Alfred theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Cygwin theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Alacritty theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 WordPress theme — Shades of Purple
• 🦄 Prism JS + Prism CSS + Code-Surfer theme — Shades of Purple

SOP's Syntax Colors

Shades of purple theme is built with several shades of purple and a few contrast colors to make things pop. This also makes SOP a very good theme for teaching, presenting, and using on your site via Prisma or HighlightJS. A rough collection of important colors in SOP theme is listed below.

USAGE	HEX CODES
Background	#2D2B55
Background Dark	#1E1E3F
Foreground	#A599E9
Hover Background	#4D21FC
Contrast	#FAD000
Contrast Lite	#FFEE80
Contrast Lite II	#FAEFA5
Highlight	#FF7200
Comment	#B362FF
Constants	#FF628C
Keywords	#FF9D00
Other	#9EFFFF
Strings	#A5FF90
Templates	#3AD900
Definitions	#FB94FF
Invalid	#EC3A37F5
Diff Added	#00FF009A
Diff Removed	#FF000D81

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License & Attribution

Licensed as MIT ⓒ Ahmad Awais.

Thanks to VSCode team at Microsoft for creating such an awesome code editor. Also to the creator of other high contrast themes that served as an inspiration. This theme takes inspiration from many VSCode themes including but not limited to Cobalt themes by Roberto Achar, Ayu, Palenight themes, Dracula themes, etc. VSCode and Icons8 for the icons in this readme.

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