Night Owl
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A VS Code theme for the night owls out there. Now introducing Light Owl theme for daytime usage. Decisions were based on meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and for optimal razzle dazzle. ✨
Tracked since 5 Sept 2026
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Where Night Owl ranks in search
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#19 on Marketplace for “color-theme”, nowhere on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| color-theme | #19of 18,210 | — |
| dark theme | #822of 20,080↓5 7d | — |
4 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
- Installs
- 3.6M+0.1% 7d
- Rating
- 4.85from 144 ratings
- Rank in Themes
- #14of 18,424
- Latest
- v2.1.131 Dec 2024
43 releases · first published May 2018
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
- Downloads
- 82,343+0.6% 7d
- Rating
- 5.0from 1 reviews
- Rank in Themes
- #36of 1,899
- Latest
- v2.1.11 Jan 2025
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
What the publisher says
Night Owl’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.