Peacock for Visual Studio Code

!Peacock Icon

Subtly change the color of your Visual Studio Code workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances, use VS Live Share, or use VS Code's Remote features, and you want to quickly identify your editor.

Read the extensive documentation here which includes a guide on how to use Peacock and a changelog

Install

Open Extensions sideBar panel in Visual Studio Code and choose the menu options for View → Extensions
Search for Peacock
Click Install
Click Reload, if required

Documentation

Read the extensive documentation here which includes a guide on how to use Peacock and a changelog

Quick Usage

Let's see Peacock in action!

Create/Open a VSCode Workspace (Peacock only works in a Workspace)
Press F1 to open the command palette
Type Peacock
Choose Peacock: Change to a favorite color
Choose one of the pre-defined colors and see how it changes your editor

Now enjoy exploring the rest of the features explained in the docs!

!Peacock Windows

Works with Modern UI

Peacock works whether you're on VS Code's classic UI or the new Modern UI — same colors, same experience.

| Classic UI | Modern UI | | --- | --- | | !Peacock in classic UI | !Peacock in modern UI |

Resources

Credits

Inspiration comes in many forms. These folks and teams have contributed either through ideas, issues, pull requests, or guidance. Thank you!

The VS Code team and their incredibly helpful guide for creating extensions

Here are some great examples for extensions from the VS Code team

Code of Conduct

Code of Conduct.

Contributing

The fastest way to contribute is with Copilot CLI — it knows this repo's conventions automatically:

copilot "Add a new command called 'Change to a Seasonal Color' that picks a color based on the current season"

Or contribute manually — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide:

Fork this repo and create a branch
npm install → make your changes → npm test
Open a PR

See AGENTS.md for the full project guide including architecture, patterns, and how to add commands/settings.

Problems or Suggestions

Open an issue here

workbench.experimental.modernUI compatibility was fixed upstream in VS Code and Peacock colors now apply normally with it enabled. See #652 for history.

Contributors

Contribution guidelines are located here

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

_{James Newell} ⚠️	_Julian 🤔	_{Oleg Solomka} 💻 ⚠️	_{Joseph Rex} 🎨	_{Sam Julien} 🤔	_{Shayne Boyer} 💻	_{Burke Holland} 🤔
_{Jonathan Carter} 💻	_{Ricardo Souza} 💻	_{Kushal Pandya} 💻	_{Erich Gamma} ⚠️	_{Christian Nwamba} 🤔	_{Matt Bierner} 💻	_{Raymond Camden} 🤔
_{Aaron Powell} 🤔	_tanhakabir 💻	_{Nate Drake} 💻	_{Prateek Verma} 💻