N Kaushik

How to create colorful workspaces in VSCode

September 15, 2021

Colorful workspace in VSCode:

If you work on multiple workspaces or if you keep open multiple projects in vscode, you might want to use this extension.

Peacock:

Go to your extension tab and search for peacock. Install the one by the John papa.

Peacock extension

How to use it:

  • Open your VSCode
  • Press F1 to open the command palette
  • Search and select Peacock: Change to a favorite color.
  • You can select from a range of colors and it will change your workspace color.

You don’t need to keep setting the color each time. It saved the settings for that workspace. You can give different colors to different workspaces.

Peacock vscode colors

You can also,

  • select user-defined color from your favourite color
  • save your favourite color
  • save color to your .vscode/settings.json file
  • Integrate with VSCode remote and Live share.

You can search for Peacock in the command palette to get all available options. Peacock options

You can find all details on their official website

Give it a *

It is an open-source project. Here is the code. Give it a star if you love using it :)


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