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Helium Icon Theme installs statistics

By Helgard Richard Ferreira · VS Code Marketplace · Themes

Helium and Material Design Icons for Visual Studio Code

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 21, 2026

Helium Icon Theme has 436,375 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #917 of 2,502 tracked listings.

Installs
436,375
Official API · Oct 21, 2026
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Rank
#917
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 5.00 / 5 from 12 ratings

About Helium Icon Theme

Helium Icon Theme

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/logo.png" alt="helium file icon" width="100%">

Version

Based off of the original Material Icon Theme extension, the "Helium Icon Theme" extension provides lots of icons based on Material Design for Visual Studio Code including Mezzanine's own DSL - Helium!

File icons
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/images/fileIcons.png" alt="file icons" width="100%">
Folder icons
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/images/folderIcons.png" alt="folder icons" width="100%">
Customize folder color

You can change the color of the default folder icon using the command palette:

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/images/set-folder-color.gif" alt="custom folder colors" width="80%">

or via user settings:

"helium-icon-theme.folders.color": "#ef5350",
Folder themes

You can change the design of the folder icons using the command palette:

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/images/set-folder-theme.gif" alt="folder themes" width="80%">

or via user settings:

"helium-icon-theme.folders.theme": "specific"

Custom icon opacity

You can set a custom opacity for the icons:

"helium-icon-theme.opacity": 0.5

Custom icon saturation

If colors do not make you happy you can change the icons to have less saturation making them look grayish or completely grayscale by setting saturation to 0:

"helium-icon-theme.saturation": 0.5

Custom icon associations

You can customize the icon associations directly in the user settings.

File associations

With the *.[extension] pattern you can define custom file icon associations. For example you could define an icon for *.sample and every file that ends with .sample will have the defined icon. Use **.[extension] with two asterisks to apply the file association also for the filenames ending with that file extension.

If there's no leading * it will be automatically configured as filename and not as file extension.

"helium-icon-theme.files.associations": {
    "*.ts": "typescript",
    "fileName.ts": "angular"
}
Folder associations

The following configuration can customize the folder icons. It is also possible to overwrite existing associations and create nice combinations. For example you could change the folder theme to "classic" and define icons only for the folder names you like.

"helium-icon-theme.folders.associations": {
    "customFolderName": "src",
    "sample": "dist"
}
Language associations

With the following configuration you can customize the language icons. It is also possible to overwrite existing associations.

"helium-icon-theme.languages.associations": {
    "languageId": "iconName",
    "json": "json"
}

Available language ids:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/identifiers#_known-language-identifiers

You can see the available icon names in the overview above.

Commands

Press Ctrl-Shift-P to open the command palette and type Material Icons.

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helgardferreira/vscode-helium-icon-theme/master/images/commandPalette.png" alt="commands" width="80%">
CommandDescription
Activate Icon ThemeActivate the icon theme.
Change Folder ColorChange the color of the folder icons.
Change Folder ThemeChange the design of the folder icons.
Change OpacityChange the opacity of the icons.
Change SaturationChange the saturation value of the icons.
Configure Icon PacksSelect an icon pack that enables additional icons (e.g. for Angular, React, Ngrx).
Hide Folder ArrowsHides the arrows next to the folder icons.
Restore Default ConfigurationReset the default configurations of the icon theme.
Toggle GrayscaleSets the saturation of the icons to zero, so that they are grayscale.

Icon sources

Based off of the original Material Icon Theme

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • customization
  • helium
  • icons
  • icon-theme
  • material
  • theme

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Adoption over time

Helium Icon Theme installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 436,375 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.Helium Icon ThemeInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days436,375installs435.8K435.9K436K436.1K436.2K436.3K436.4KJul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Helium Icon Theme installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 436,375 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.

7/30/90-day growth

Helium Icon Theme installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Helium Icon ThemeInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace436,375installs 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
Helium Icon Theme installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.

Ranking history

Helium Icon Theme VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #917 (by installs).Helium Icon ThemeVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#917current rank#914#915#916#917#918#919Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct 21, 2026pluginstats.com
Helium Icon Theme VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #917 (by installs).

Ratings over time

Helium Icon Theme ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 12 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.Helium Icon ThemeRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days12ratings10.51111.51212.51313.5Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Helium Icon Theme ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 12 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.

Listing placement

All VS Code Marketplace2,502 listings · 126 pages · 1,252 shown · page 46, #17 (overall #917)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order

Listing placement

Themes266 listings · 14 pages · page 4, #14 (overall #74)
Themes: every listing in installs order

Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

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Recent observations

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Recent installs observations for Helium Icon Theme
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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=helgardrichard.helium-icon-theme. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.