Posted on May 19, 2020

When You Want A Bit More Rainbow In Your VSCode

I decided to give VSCode a chance again and decided, hey, if I'm setting up an editor from scratch, let's make it fun! I searched around and found the following extensions:

The colors they each defaulted to were... fine. But I needed ✨rainbow✨. So here are my settings:

"bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colors": [ "DeepSkyBlue", "DodgerBlue", "MediumSlateBlue", "BlueViolet", "MediumVioletRed", "DeepPink", "Red", "DarkOrange", "Gold", "GreenYellow", "LimeGreen", "LightSeaGreen", "DarkTurquoise" ], "rainbowTags.colors": [ "BlueViolet", "MediumVioletRed", "DeepPink", "Red", "DarkOrange", "Gold", "GreenYellow", "LimeGreen", "LightSeaGreen", "DarkTurquoise", "DeepSkyBlue", "DodgerBlue", "MediumSlateBlue" ], "indentRainbow.colors": [ "rgba(0,191,255,0.07)", "rgba(30,144,255,0.07)", "rgba(123,104,238,0.07)", "rgba(138,43,226,0.07)", "rgba(199,21,133,0.07)", "rgba(255,20,147,0.07)", "rgba(255,0,0,0.07)", "rgba(255,140,0,0.07)", "rgba(255,215,0,0.07)", "rgba(173,255,47,0.07)", "rgba(50,205,50,0.07)", "rgba(32,178,170,0.07)", "rgba(0,206,209,0.07)" ], "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": { "textMateRules": [ { "scope": "rainbow1", "settings": { "foreground": "#0082C8" } }, { "scope": "keyword.rainbow2", "settings": { "foreground": "#39afa9", } }, { "scope": "entity.name.function.rainbow3", "settings": { "foreground": "#21c761", } }, { "scope": "comment.rainbow4", "settings": { "foreground": "#acf35c", } }, { "scope": "string.rainbow5", "settings": { "foreground": "#f7ec56" } }, { "scope": "variable.parameter.rainbow6", "settings": { "foreground": "#f0ac46", } }, { "scope": "constant.numeric.rainbow7", "settings": { "foreground": "#f05e32", } }, { "scope": "entity.name.type.rainbow8", "settings": { "foreground": "#ce1919", } }, { "scope": "markup.bold.rainbow9", "settings": { "foreground": "#f531cb" } }, { "scope": "invalid.rainbow10", "settings": { "foreground": "#8d31f7" } } ] }

End result is this for Bracket Pair Colorizer and Indent Rainbow (Rainbow Tags looks very similar):

And this is what Rainbow CSV looks like:

I did try Rainbow String, which was pretty cool! But it would sometimes rainbowize more than just strings and then I couldn't take advantage of the syntax highlighting. Overall, I can't recommend that one, even though it is pretty fabulous.