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10 Best Icon Packs to Improve Your File's Appearance in VS Code

Top icon packs you should download to your VS Code

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A suitable file pack in your VS Code software can boost your confidence within the IDE and please your eye more than the default ones. I have already written a lot of articles about VS Code themes, extensions, and other enhancements. You can check it out in this list here.

1. Material Icon Theme

Material Icon Theme is the ultimate classic of all icon themes in VS Code and frankly, it is the most downloaded one. This icon pack has all of the icons you would think of, even the ones that are not considered programming languages.

This pack has almost 13 million downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by Philipp Kief.

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Material Icon Theme - Visual Studio Marketplace

2. vscode-icons

Vscode-icons are another classic and the pack is also filled with every icon you would ever think of. This icon pack has around 11 million downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by VSCode Icons Team.

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vscode-icons - Visual Studio Marketplace

3. Monokai Pro

This icon pack was designed by the author of the original Monokai colours. Carefully selected shades of colours are the foundation of an uncompromising, non-distractive user interface.

This icon pack has around 1.5 million downloads, has 10 available icon variants, and was developed by monokai.

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Monokai Pro - Visual Studio Marketplace

4. Material Theme Icons

This icon pack has around 1.4 million downloads, has 5 available icon variants, and was developed by Equinusocio.

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Material Theme Icons - Visual Studio Marketplace

5. Ayu

A simple theme with bright colours for all-day-long comfortable work. This icon pack has around 1.3 million downloads, has 3 available icon variants, and was developed by teabyii.

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Ayu - Visual Studio Marketplace

6. City Lights

This City Lights Icon Theme is a part of City Lights, a suite of beautiful matte dark-themed goodies for Atom & Visual Studio Code.

This icon pack has around 88 thousand downloads, has 2 available icon variants, and was developed by Yummygum.

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City Lights Icon package - Visual Studio Marketplace

7. Nomo Dark

This icon pack has around 360 thousand downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by be5invis.

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Nomo Dark Icon Theme - Visual Studio Marketplace

8. Keen neutral icon theme

A light icon theme with a minimal amount of visual noise for Visual Studio Code. This icon pack has around 31 thousand downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by Keenethics.

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Keen neutral icon theme - Visual Studio Marketplace

9. Easy icon theme

Easy icons is a simple icon theme for Visual Studio Code.

This icon pack has around 196 thousand downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by James Maguire.

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Easy icon theme - Visual Studio Marketplace

10. Icons

This icon pack has around 33 thousand downloads, has 1 available icon variant, and was developed by Mhammed Talhaouy.

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Icons - Visual Studio Marketplace

Conclusion

Icons and themes in your VS Code should be important to you. If you use just the right one that sits with you, you could be a lot more comfortable with using the IDE. So, these were the most popular icon packs that you could download into your VS Code right now.




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