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24 alternatives to City Lights |

A suite of beautiful dark themed goodies

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. City Lights | launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Framer Syntax Theme▲145

   A beautiful VSCode & Atom theme, inspired by our code editor

   2018 · framer.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Electric Purple VS Code Theme▲84

   A theme that will brighten your env and not strain your eyes

   2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Luvia Theme For Visual Studio Code▲88

   Dark Visual Studio Code theme for those who code at night

   2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Todoist Dark Theme▲315

   Experience a darker side of Todoist

   2018 · todoist.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Starlight by Astro▲494

   Build beautiful documentation websites with ease

   2023 · starlight.astro.build · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Rainglow Color Themes▲211

   320+ color themes for a variety of editors and software.

   2018 · rainglow.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   City Kit▲377

   Illustrated and animated cities from around the world

   2019 · startupmilk.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Istanbul Night▲13

   Sleek, dark theme for Visual Studio Code

   2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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   Lunar Theme▲139

   A minimal, dark and light space theme for VSCode.

   2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Darkness▲269

    Dark themes for Google, Facebook and more

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Darkness v2▲219

    Beautiful dark themes for your favorite websites

    2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Framer Studio: Code Highlighting▲121

    A new way to inspect and navigate your prototyping code

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Squirrelsong▲92

    Light & dark themes for web developers

    2023 · sapegin.me · its alternatives →

14. 14
    RoRvsWild theme▲72

    Colors for developers with sensitive eyes

    2020 · rorvswild.com · its alternatives →

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    Code Blue▲159

    A carefully concocted dark theme for VS Code.

    2018 · sujansundareswaran.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Pinegrow + Atom▲181

    The perfect IDE for the web

    2016 · pinegrow.com · its alternatives →

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    atom-dark-plus-ui - A dark theme for atom based on the atom dark theme▲6

    We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

    2016 · atom.io · its alternatives →

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    Night Palette▲107

    Dark mode color palettes for designers and artists

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Themery▲86

    Build beautiful IDE color themes with AI. Fine-tune colors, syntax highlighting, and typography. Export to VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Helix, Zed, and more.

    Apr 2026 · themery.dev · its alternatives →

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    Brightlight▲132

    A clean multipage theme made with Astro, Tailwind CSS & MDX

    2023 · lexingtonthemes.com · its alternatives →

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    Themer▲129

    Personalize themes for your terminal/editor/wallpaper/slack

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Anderson Dark Theme for Atom.io (based on Wes Anderson Color Scheme)▲5

    Atom syntax theme based on the anderson.vim. Contribute to nyxtom/anderson-dark-syntax development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Duomage▲65

    Minimal dark theme for VS Code

    2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Slack Theme for VSCode▲104

    Theme your VSCode like Slack

    2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →