<p dir="auto">The light and dark themes have recently been in the center of attention due to colors being added and removed again.</p>
<p dir="auto">More colors became visible due to the update of tokenizers in November. In December we decided to remove these again, to stay in sync with the classic Visual Studio Dark and Light themes.</p>
<p dir="auto">From reactions in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="122048258" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1270" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/vscode/issues/1270/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1270">#1270</a> and <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="123073776" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1470" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/vscode/issues/1470/hovercard" href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1470">#1470</a> and other issues, we learned that we have fans of both the classic Visual Studio dark and light themes as well as the more colorful version, e.g., from <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1470#issuecomment-166152680" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/microsoft/vscode/issues/1470/hovercard">comment</a></p>
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<p dir="auto">The <code class="notranslate">Dark</code> and <code class="notranslate">Light</code> default themes were very nice in 0.10.3, I'm already missing them.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So we decided to bring the colors back in new themes, 'Dark+' and 'Light+'.<br>
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<p dir="auto">You can currently try these out by installing the extension 'Colorful Default Themes'. The plan is to add them to the built-in themes in the January build.</p>
<p dir="auto">In addition to 4 major colors in the Visual Studio themes (comments, strings, numbers and keywords) we now have again colors for</p>
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<li>control flow keywords</li>
<li>type names</li>
<li>function names</li>
<li>parameter names</li>
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<p dir="auto">When trying the new themes out, you will still find some keywords like 'import', 'module' nor correctly highlighted. These are issues in the tokenizer that we are working on. Please post your findings here, if possible add a code snippet and don't forget to mention for what language it is :-)</p>
<p dir="auto">Didn't see another issue filed for this already so forgive me if I missed it:</p>
<p dir="auto">In VS Code December release, we've noticed that when you hover over variable names while the debugger is stopped, it works the first time but then it doesn't work again until you resume debugging and it hits a new breakpoint.  Sometimes I see it stop working entirely even across debugging sessions.  I don't see any requests being made to my debug adapter on hover, so I'm guessing this is happening client-side.</p>