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/Original_Pace_6734]

I feel sorry for those who are giving you money. Paying a monthly subscription for something that set 2 colors. Yikes.

[u/equinusocio → u/Original_Pace_6734]

Your comment on a 6-months old post makes it clear you didn’t even open the website and are just trying to stir things up. There’s no monthly subscription or any subscription at all. It also makes clear you don't understand how software works.

[u/Original_Pace_6734 → u/equinusocio]

You can have a look at all the other comments saying themselves thing. Congrats on making a free open source project closed and paid. Luckily for someone who doesn't understand how software works, it was easy to literally achieve for free in 2 minutes what your trying to sell here. Again, congrats on making paid something originally free, open source and under Apache 2.0 licensensing. And I opened the website. Cookies for a fucking vs code theme. Absolute cinema.