Colorful Comments installs statistics
By Parth Rastogi · VS Code Marketplace · Formatters
Improve and Enhance your code and make it attractive by adding Colorful Comments
Colorful Comments has 199,270 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #1516 of 2,502 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.27 / 5 from 11 ratings
About Colorful Comments
Colorful Comments
The Colorful Comments Extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code.
With this Extension, you will be able to categorise your cody by special colour into:
- Red (!)
- Blue (?)
- Green (*)
- Yellow (^)
- Pink (&)
- Purple (~)
- Mustard (todo)
- Grey (//)
- Commented out Code can also be Styled to make it Clear the Code shouldn't be There.
- Any Other Comment Styles you'd like can be Specified in the Settings.

Configurations
This extension can be configured in User Settings or Workspace settings.
"colorful-comments.multilineComments": true
This setting will control whether multiline comments are styled using the annotation tags.
When false, multiline comments will be presented without decoration.
"colorful-comments.highlightPlainText": false
This setting will control whether comments in a plain text file are styled using the annotation tags.
When true, the tags (defaults: ! * ? // ~ & ^) will be detected if they're the first character on a line.
colorful-comments.tags
The tags are the characters or sequences used to mark a comment for decoration.
The default 7 can be modifed to change the colors, and more can be added.
"colorful-comments.tags": [
{
"tag": "!",
"color": "#FF2D00",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "?",
"color": "#0076FF",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "//",
"color": "#474747",
"strikethrough": true,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "^",
"color": "#EAF622",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "*",
"color": "#28FF00",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "&",
"color": "#FF06A0",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "~",
"color": "#BE00FF",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
},
{
"tag": "todo",
"color": "#FF8C00",
"strikethrough": false,
"backgroundColor": "transparent",
"bold": false,
"italic": false
}
]
Supported Languages
- BrightScript
- C
- C#
- C++
- Clojure
- CSS
- Dart
- Dockerfile
- Groovy
- HTML
- Java
- Javascript
- JavaScript React
- JSON with comments
- Less
- Lua
- Markdown
- Objective-C
- Objective-C++
- PHP
- PowerShell
- Python
- Sass
- SCSS
- TypeScript
- TypeScript React
- XML
- YAML
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ParthR2031.colorful-comments. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.