How to configure VSCode Bracket Pair Colors Natively

Published on Oct 12, 2021

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With an update in August 2021, VSCode started supporting Bracket pair colorization natively. It means there is no need to use the Bracket Pair Colorizer extension (which I love).

In their official announcement, the VSCode team states they choose to implement this feature natively to address performance issues.

I recently uninstalled the extension and thought, let's try to use the editor without any bracket color extension. I cannot. I've been using the extension as long as I remember and I cannot go back to plain, colorless brackets.

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To enable this setting, open the settings.json file for the VSCode editor and add the following:

1{
2 // ...
3 "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
4 "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
5 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground1": "#ffb86c",
6 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground2": "#8be9fd",
7 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground3": "#bd93f9",
8 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground4": "#50fa7b",
9 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground5": "#f1fa8c",
10 "editorBracketHighlight.foreground6": "#abb2c0",
11 "editorBracketHighlight.unexpectedBracket.foreground": "#ff5555"
12 }
13}

And tweak the colors according to your style!

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By the way, the above colors are from Dracula theme's 🧛‍♂️ color palette to match the overall editor theme I am currently using.


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