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By Ed Heltzel · VS Code Marketplace · Themes

A Better Solarized theme for Visual Studio Code include light and dark versions

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 20, 2026

Better Solarized has 157,516 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #1801 of 2,501 tracked listings.

Installs
157,516
Official API · Oct 20, 2026
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Rank
#1801
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.84 / 5 from 19 ratings

About Better Solarized

<div align="center"> <img src="https://raw.github.com/ginfuru/vscode-better-solarized-dark/master/images/better-solarized-theme-poster.jpg" alt="better solarized poster"> </div> <br><br>

Better Solarized + Selenized release

This is an improvement to the built-in/original Solarized theme that comes with Visual Studio Code. It leverages Boxy Solarized Theme, with several modifications, tweaks, and customizations. Better Solarized will always draw inspiration from the original Solarized project and now includes the Selenized color palette.

Five(5) variants:

  1. Solarized Dark
  2. Solarized Light
  3. Solarized Dark with Italics
  4. Selenized Dark
  5. Selenized Light
Featured on:
  • vscode.email newsletter.
  • located on several VSCode Theme Lists.

Additional Customization and other Tweaks

See something that you'd rather change?

No problem, feel free to edit and customize by using the workbench.colorCustomizations setting. Check out the Theme Color Reference for additional options.

Open up your settings.json and hack way.

"workbench.colorCustomizations":{
  "peekView.border": "#E50A69AB",
  "peekViewTitle.background": "#002b36",
  "peekViewResult.background": "#00212b",
  "peekViewEditor.background": "#002b36",
  "peekViewEditor.matchHighlightBackground": "#00212bAB",
  "editorBracketHighlight.foreground1": "#cdcdcdff",
  "editorBracketHighlight.foreground2": "#b58900ff",
  "editorBracketHighlight.foreground3": "#d33682ff",
},
  "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "[Better Solarized Dark]": {
      "textMateRules": [
        {
          "scope": "support.type.property-name.table.toml",
          "settings": {
            "foreground": "#FDF6E3",
            "fontStyle": "bold"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  },

This is just an example, you can customize any color you want)

ScreenShots

Better SolarizedBetter Selenized
solarized Darkselenized Dark
solarized Lightselenized Light
solarized Dark Peekselenized Dark Peek
solarized Light Peekselenized Light Peek
solarized Dark Terminalselenized Dark Terminal
solarized Light Terminalselenized Light Terminal

Development

So theme development is a little unique, in the fact that I've chosen to use Eleventy to generate the JSON files using Nunjucks for templates. Eleventy is very versatile without an opinionated structure, which is why I use it.

Each theme is generated from the ./src/data/themes.js file and has a companion Nunjucks template in ./src which is then compiled into the ./themes directory.

Getting Started
  1. Clone the repository gh repo clone edheltzel/vscode-better-solarized && cd vscode-better-solarized
  2. Run pnpm install
  3. Execute the run without debugging: Run > Run without debugging OR ctrl + F5 (see: VSCode Debugging) to start development.
  4. Either open the terminal and run pnpm run serve or run a task with the command prompt Tasks: Run Task and select npm: serve (Either option works - I personally run the task inside of the terminal).
  5. To edit the theme colors open the ./src/data/themes.js file and edit the colors as needed and/or edit any of the Nunjucks files in the ./src directory.
NPM Scripts
Lifecycle scripts:
  publish
    vsce publish
  release
    gh release create v%npm_package_version% --generate-notes --latest

Commands available via "pnpm run":
  build
    pnpm dlx @11ty/eleventy
  serve
    pnpm dlx @11ty/eleventy --watch
```…

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • atom
  • color-theme
  • selenized
  • selenized dark
  • selenized light
  • solarized
  • solarized dark
  • solarized light
  • sublime
  • theme

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Adoption over time

Better Solarized installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 157,516 installs as of Oct 20, 2026.Better SolarizedInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days157,516installs157.4K157.4K157.4K157.5K157.5K157.5K157.5KJul 22Aug 6Aug 21Sep 5Sep 20Oct 5Oct 20installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026 · 5 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Better Solarized installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 157,516 installs as of Oct 20, 2026.

7/30/90-day growth

Better Solarized installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Better SolarizedInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace157,516installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 20, 2026pluginstats.com
Better Solarized installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.

Ranking history

Better Solarized VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1801 (by installs).Better SolarizedVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#1801current rank#1798#1799#1800#1801#1802#1803Jul 22Aug 6Aug 21Sep 5Sep 20Oct 5Oct 20rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026 · 5 observations · Updated Oct 20, 2026pluginstats.com
Better Solarized VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1801 (by installs).

Ratings over time

Better Solarized ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 19 ratings as of Oct 20, 2026.Better SolarizedRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days19ratings1718192021Jul 22Aug 6Aug 21Sep 5Sep 20Oct 5Oct 20ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026 · 5 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Better Solarized ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 19 ratings as of Oct 20, 2026.

Listing placement

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · 1,251 shown · page 91, #1 (overall #1,801)
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Listing placement

Themes266 listings · 14 pages · page 9, #15 (overall #175)
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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=ginfuru.ginfuru-better-solarized-dark-theme. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.