The Best VSCode Theme, Tokyo Night

The best theme for VSCode is the Tokyo Night theme as it is easy to use, often updated, and contains no temporary hacks. Let me quickly go over how to use it.

The Tokyo Night Theme Plugin

The Tokyo Night Theme plugin can be found on the VSCode marketplace:

Tokyo Night - Visual Studio Marketplace

And the theme is normally set via the menu sequence of:

File->Preferences->Theme->ColorTheme

The menu sequence choosing the Tokyo Night theme sets the defaults. To override for customization, we have two settings blocks to play with. The first part is the editor token customizations:

Notice that we have to set the workbench color theme first. And this block disables italics. And the color customizations block of the workbench comes in two parts. The first part is…