What’s In This Document

• Example
• Installation
• Recommended Settings
• Contributing
• License
• Acknowledgements

Example

Installation

1. Open Extensions sidebar panel in VS Code.
2. Search for Helium - find the one by Dhyey Thumar.
3. Click Install
4. Code > Preferences > Color Theme > Helium

Now the theme color is set 😀.

Optional: For best experience use the recommended settings given below.

Recommended Settings

{
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Helium",
    "files.autoSave": "onFocusChange",
    "editor.fontFamily": "'Droid Sans Mono', Consolas, 'Courier New', 'Baloo Tammudu 2'",
    "editor.fontSize": 18,
    "editor.lineHeight": 28,
    "editor.letterSpacing": 0.2,
    "editor.fontWeight": "500",
    "editor.cursorSmoothCaretAnimation": true,
    "editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
    "editor.cursorStyle": "line",
    "editor.cursorWidth": 2
}

Contributing

To work on this theme:

1. Clone this repo and open in VS Code.
2. Open run Activity Bar → Run.
3. Click Launch Extension. This will open up another VS Code Editor.
4. Make changes to helium.json. You will see changes reflected in the other editor that was opened in step 3.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

1. This VS Code theme color is inspired by Wesbos's cobalt2-vscode.
2. Description for each and every theme color attribute given in Theme Color Reference.