Rainbow Brackets installs statistics
By Mhammed Talhaouy (3 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other
A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets and make your code amazing.
Rainbow Brackets has 601,477 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #762 of 2,501 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.43 / 5 from 7 ratings
About Rainbow Brackets
- Supported languages
- Author's choice
- Install
- Screenshots
- Settings
- Commands
- HTML Configuration
- Release Notes
- Issues Suggestions
Supported languages
Java, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Python, Haskell, Agda, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Ruby, Elixir, ObjectiveC, PHP, HTML, XML, SQL, Apex language, C#, Dart, Pug/Jade, Bash, Vue.js, C# Razor Pages, GLSL(the OpenGL Shading Language), Go Template, C++, C...
Author's choice
Rainbow Brackets + Theme + Error Lens +Monolisa (Font)
install
- Open the extensions sidebar on Visual Studio Code
- Search for Rainbow Brackets
- Click Install
- Click Reload to reload your editor
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Screenshots
- Python

- Typescript

- Vue

Settings
// default is 200
"RainbowBrackets.timeOut":200
Configure how long the editor should be idle for before updating the document.
Set to 0 to disable.
"RainbowBrackets.forceUniqueOpeningColor": true | false
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"RainbowBrackets.forceIterationColorCycle": true
Commands
These commands will expand/undo the cursor selection to the next scope
"rainbow-brackets.expandBracketSelection"
"rainbow-brackets.undoBracketSelection"
Quick-start:
{
"key": "shift+alt+right",
"command": "rainbow-brackets.expandBracketSelection",
"when": "editorTextFocus"
},
{
"key": "shift+alt+left",
"command": "rainbow-brackets.undoBracketSelection",
"when": "editorTextFocus"
}
HTML_Configuration
An example configuration for HTML is:
"RainbowBrackets.consecutivePairColors": [
"()",
"[]",
"{}",
["teal", "yellow", "tomato"],
"Revioletd"
]
settings.json
{
"editor.RainbowBrackets.enabled": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active"
}
Screenshot:

Features
User defined matching characters
By default (), [], and {} are matched, however custom bracket characters can also be configured.
CHANGELOG
Issues&Suggestion
For any issues or suggestions, please use GitHub issues.
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- bracket
- brackets
- color
- colorizer
- colorizer-bracket
- pair
- Rainbow
- Rainbow Brackets
- Rainbow-Brackets
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tal7aouy.rainbow-bracket. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.
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