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By CoenraadS · VS Code Marketplace · Other

A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 21, 2026

[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 has 6,761,245 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #140 of 2,502 tracked listings.

Installs
6,761,245
Official API · Oct 21, 2026
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Rank
#140
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.49 / 5 from 186 ratings

About [Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2


🎄 Christmas Notice ☃️

This project started on 3 Dec 2016. Now 5 years later, it has become a native feature in VSCode.

This extension has seen wilder success then I could over ever dreamed of, with over 10M+ downloads.

I'm glad so many people found it useful, however it no longer has a purpose entering 2022 so development will no longer continue.

If you enjoyed it, a coffee donation is appreciated:

🎁 Donate 🎁

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


How to enable native bracket matching:

settings.json

{
    "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
    "editor.guides.bracketPairs":"active"
}

Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which tokens to match, and which colours to use.

Screenshot:
Screenshot


F.A.Q.
  • Differences between v1 and v2?
    • v2 Uses the same bracket parsing engine as VSCode, greatly increasing speed and accuracy. A new version was released because settings were cleaned up, breaking backwards compatibility.

Release Notes

Settings

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colors"
Define the colors used to colorize brackets. Accepts valid color names, hex codes, and rgba() values.

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colors": [
    "Gold",
    "Orchid",
    "LightSkyBlue"
]

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.forceUniqueOpeningColor"
Disabled Enabled

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.forceIterationColorCycle"
Enabled

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colorMode"
Consecutive brackets share a color pool for all bracket types
Independent brackets allow each bracket type to use its own color pool
Consecutive Independent

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.highlightActiveScope"
Should the currently scoped brackets always be highlighted?

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.activeScopeCSS"
Choose a border style to highlight the active scope. Use {color} to match the existing bracket color
It is recommended to disable the inbuilt editor.matchBrackets setting if using this feature
BorderStyle

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.activeScopeCSS": [
    "borderStyle : solid",
    "borderWidth : 1px",
    "borderColor : {color}",
    "opacity: 0.5"
]

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showBracketsInGutter"
Show active scope brackets in the gutter
Gutter

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showBracketsInRuler"
Show active scope brackets in the ruler

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.rulerPosition"
Decoration position in the ruler

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showVerticalScopeLine"
Show a vertical line between the brackets? Enabled by default
Scope Line

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showHorizontalScopeLine"
Show a horizontal line between the brackets? Enabled by default
Scope Line

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.scopeLineRelativePosition"
Disable this to show the vertical line in column 0
Scope Line

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.scopeLineCSS"
Choose a border style to highlight the active scope. Use {color} to match the existing bracket color

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.scopeLineCSS": [
    "borderStyle : solid",
    "borderWidth : 1px",
    "borderColor : {color}",
    "opacity: 0.5"
]

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.excludedLanguages"
Exclude a language from being colorized

Commands

These commands will expand/undo the cursor selection to the next scope

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.expandBracketSelection"
"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.undoBracketSelection"

Quick-start:

{
    "key": "shift+alt+right",
    "command": "bracket-pair-colorizer-2.expandBracketSelection",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
},
{
    "key": "shift+alt+left",
    "command": "bracket-pair-colorizer-2.undoBracketSelection",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
}

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • bracket
  • brackets
  • color
  • colour
  • multi-root ready
  • pair

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Charts

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Adoption over time

[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 6,761,245 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2Installs on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days6,761,245installs6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8M6.8MJul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 6,761,245 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.

7/30/90-day growth

[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2Installs growth on VS Code Marketplace6,761,245installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 21, 2026pluginstats.com
[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.

Ranking history

[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #140 (by installs).[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2VS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#140current rank#137#138#139#140#141#142Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct 21, 2026pluginstats.com
[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #140 (by installs).

Ratings over time

[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 186 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2Ratings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days186ratings165170175180185190195200205Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 186 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.

Listing placement

All VS Code Marketplace2,502 listings · 126 pages · 1,253 shown · page 7, #20 (overall #140)
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Listing placement

Other762 listings · 39 pages · page 2, #17 (overall #37)
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Recent observations

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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer-2. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.