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Options in the theme format

Options in the theme format - Visual Studio Code Tutorial

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Options in the theme format

- [Instructor] Let's take a few minutes to understand the format of the files that we're creating inside a color theme. Now inside these theme definitions you're going to see a name of course. This identifies the name of the theme that you are working with. And this is one of the questions that we answered when we create the theme with the Visual Studio Code extension. In addition to that you'll see another section called the colors. Now these are mappings for colors of the Visual Studio Code user interface. You can find all of the colors that you can customize on this page. So if you scroll down you can see that we can use different color formats but there are different keywords that we can use to target different areas of the interface. In addition to that you'll see a big section called token colors. This is the section that identifies each token or series of tokens that you want to modify with a color…

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