Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

Hi HN,

I built the VS Code Theme Studio after realizing how hard and annoying it is to create a theme the standard way. You have to tweak tons of hex color codes in a huge JSON file... yuck. Most of the time you don't even know which settings to edit, or how they actually affect the UI. I wanted to build a much more intuitive and user-friendly way of designing VS Code themes, so that anyone could design a beautiful, polished theme in under an hour (instead of a week). In a future iteration, I want to make the theme studio even handle the process of publishing your theme to the VS Code marketplace for you. This way, all you'll have to do is design the theme, and click a single button... "Publish". I had a lot of fun building this and I look forward to seeing the themes you create :)

(Built with my favorites: Vue.js + Nuxt.js + Firebase)

It'd be nice to let people create themes anonymously and only save them to localStorage, then require an account if they want to do more from there.

This is great! Now I'm not going to get any real work done today.

One of VS Code's strengths is that it can entirely run without the browser. It would be cool to see actual real preview of the themes in action.

Awesome.

I used such theme creators for WebStorm, back in the days, and I certainly missed them for VSCode.

Nit: it would be cool if I could click on an element in the UI and it would open the config option on the left. Currently it requires me to search for an option.