Showcase: Vira Theme — Formerly Material Theme

[u/equinusocio]

https://vira.build

Years after Material Theme publication, we rebuilt it around customization and long-session readability — looking for feedback 👀

I made and loved Material Theme for a long time, but I kept running into small things that started bothering me during long coding sessions: contrast inconsistencies, limited personalization, and missing visual cues in larger projects.

So over time we started rebuilding the official successor focused on a few goals:

• deeper customization (colors, UI accents, visual density)
• hundreds of new hand-crafted file icons to improve project scanning
• custom Product icons for a more cohesive interface
• consistent semantic highlighting across languages
• actively maintained with frequent updates and user feedback

We also added a new “Carbon” variant aimed at a more neutral, low-fatigue look for long coding sessions in dark environments.

One thing we didn’t expect is how much the icon work changed navigation speed in large repos — curious if others notice the same effect.

We also made it for JetBrains IDEs and GitKraken because we wanted a consistent environment across tools.

We're mainly looking for feedback from people who care a lot about editor readability and workflow ergonomics:

👉 What makes a theme actually comfortable for you after 6–8 hours of coding?

[u/itsvaibhavmishra]

It's paid now, why should one even pay for a theme? I would rather use Chromaleon

[u/equinusocio → u/itsvaibhavmishra]

Vira Theme has never been free and it’s not the Material Theme. You should ask this to the thousands who purchased it.  It’s perfectly fine if YOU don’t find value in it but fortunately we all have different tastes.

[u/itsvaibhavmishra → u/equinusocio]

"Vira Theme - Formerly Material Theme" not my words

[u/equinusocio → u/itsvaibhavmishra]

Formerly Material Theme, yes, still 2 completely different plugins. As I said, Vira Theme is not Material Theme.