HalloweenSmith Themes
Two Halloween color themes for Visual Studio: Halloween Night, a plum-black night with pumpkin keywords, and Halloween Light, a candle-lit parchment. For the whole IDE and the code editor — seasonal, and still comfortable for a full working day.
Free · Visual Studio 2022 and 2026 · dark and light · no code, only colors
Why HalloweenSmith
A dark one and a light one
Halloween Night for the evening, Halloween Light for the day. The same family of colors in both: pumpkin keywords, green types, purple strings, golden methods.
Made for coding, not only for a screenshot
Every syntax color stays readable on its background. Errors are blood red, warnings amber, messages blue — they never blend with the orange keywords.
The whole IDE
Title bar, tabs, Solution Explorer, tool windows, menus, the status bar (purple, pumpkin while debugging) and the editor: selection, current line, find highlight, brace matching.
Free, nothing else
No subscriptions, no "pro" version, no data collection, no messages at startup. There is no code inside — only colors — so it never asks for anything, not even a rating.
The themes
Halloween Night
A plum-black night. Keywords glow like a carved pumpkin, types are slime green, strings potion purple, numbers ghost cyan, methods candle gold; comments drift by in grey mist. The status bar is a witch's purple.
Halloween Light
Old parchment by candlelight. Burnt-pumpkin keywords, moss-green types, plum-ink strings, wax-amber methods and sepia comments; the window frame is a warm pumpkin.
Turn it on
Visual Studio 2026
- Tools › Theme › Halloween Night (or Halloween Light).
- Tools › Editor Appearance › Match Theme — the editor then takes the Halloween colors too. With Light or Dark chosen there, the code keeps the usual colors.
Visual Studio 2022
- Tools › Options › Environment › General › Color Theme › Halloween Night or Halloween Light. The editor follows the theme by itself.
Colors you changed yourself in Tools › Options › Environment › Fonts and Colors stay on top of any theme. To get the Halloween ones there, reset those items to their defaults.
Colors
The main colors of the editor. The rest of the IDE is built from the same palette.
| What | Halloween Night | Halloween Light |
|---|---|---|
| Background | #17121E | #F8F0DE |
| Text | #E9E1D3 | #2B2118 |
| Keywords | #FF9940 | #B0450A |
if, return, throw | #FFB86B | #9C2F12 |
| Classes and structs | #A8E26F | #3A7A1C |
| Strings | #C9A2FF | #6A3BA0 |
| Numbers | #6FE0E0 | #0E7373 |
| Methods | #FFD76E | #8A5400 |
| Comments | #877C9A | #7E6C55 |
| Error squiggle | #FF4F5E | #C8202F |
| Warning squiggle | #FFB020 | #A86200 |
| Status bar | #4B1F6E | #5B2E7A |
The main syntax colors — text, keywords, types, strings, numbers, methods — have a contrast of at least 4.5:1 with the background, the level recommended for normal text; comments are a little softer, from 4.4:1.
FAQ
The IDE is Halloween, but the code has the usual colors.
In Visual Studio 2026, set Tools › Editor Appearance to Match Theme. If it already is, check Tools › Options › Environment › Fonts and Colors: colors you changed there stay above any theme.
Why do the Halloween themes have no color square in the Theme menu?
Visual Studio draws the square only for its own built-in themes. Themes from extensions are listed by name — this is the same for every theme on the Marketplace.
Can I have the Halloween editor with another theme of the IDE?
Not through the menus: Editor Appearance in Visual Studio 2026 offers only its own five choices, and extensions cannot add to them. The editor colors come with the Halloween theme.
Which languages are colored?
C# and Visual Basic get every color, including methods, parameters and interfaces. Other languages use the shared colors — keywords, strings, numbers, comments, types.
Does HalloweenSmith send any data?
No. It contains no code at all — only two color themes that Visual Studio reads.
Where do I report a color that does not look right?
Open an issue in the Feedback repository on GitHub, ideally with a screenshot. You can also use the Q&A tab on the Marketplace.
Changelog
1.0.0
- First release: Halloween Night and Halloween Light for Visual Studio 2022 and 2026 — the whole IDE and the code editor.