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Cobalt2 Theme Official installs statistics

By Wes Bos · VS Code Marketplace · Themes

🔥 Official theme by Wes Bos.

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 18, 2026

Cobalt2 Theme Official has 1,907,587 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #356 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 81 ratings.

PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.

Installs
1,907,587
Official API · Oct 18, 2026
7-day growth
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90-day growth
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Rank
#356
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.75 / 5 from 81 ratings

About Cobalt2 Theme Official

Cobalt2 Theme for VS Code

Install on VS Code Marketplace

Installation

1. Open Extensions sidebar panel in VS Code. View → Extensions 2. Search for Cobalt2 - find the one by Wes Bos - there are a few other half-baked ones so make sure you have the right one! 3. Click Install to install it. 4. Code > Preferences > Color Theme > Cobalt2 5. Optional: Use the recommended settings below for best experience

Recommended Settings

Colours

Blue: #193549 Blue Highlight: #1F4662 Blue Highlight2: #234E6D Blue Dark: #122738 Yellow: #ffc600 Hot Pink: #ff0088 Blush Pink: #ff628c Orange: #ff9d00 Green

Contributing

To work on the theme:

1. Clone this repo and open in VS Code 2. Open run View → Run 3. Click Launch Extension. This will open up another VS Code Editor 4. Make changes to cobalt2.json. You will see changes reflected in the other editor that opened in step 3.

If you are making a Pull Request, Please give me a screenshot of before/after!

Deploying a new version

These are mostly notes for me.

1. Increment the version number in package.json with npm version major|minor|patch 1. run npm run bundle 1. run npm publish to publish both to npm and vscode extension store

I don't like something

You don't need to fork it!

First, this theme is new so if something is funky, please open an issue. There are many languages and parts of VS Code I don't use, so let me know!

These are the things we have control over. If you would like to change something, you can either open a PR and see if I'd like it added, or override the colours in your own settings.json file.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/theme-color-reference

Put Cobalt2 in other places!

• Warp • Sublime Text • Atom • iTerm2 • Hyper Term • Alfred • Slack

Thanks

Thanks to Roberto Achar for doing much of the initial porting to VS Code.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • color-theme
  • theme
  • Themes
  • VSCode

Where Cobalt2 Theme Official sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,500 listings · 125 pages · page 18, #16 (overall #356)
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Themes266 listings · 14 pages · page 2, #1 (overall #21)
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Charts

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Adoption over time

Cobalt2 Theme Official installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 1,907,587 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.Cobalt2 Theme OfficialInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days1,907,587installs1.9M1.9M1.9M1.9M1.9M1.9M1.9M1.9MJul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Cobalt2 Theme Official installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 1,907,587 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

Cobalt2 Theme Official installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Cobalt2 Theme OfficialInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace1,907,587installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Cobalt2 Theme Official installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

Cobalt2 Theme Official VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #356 (by installs).Cobalt2 Theme OfficialVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#356current rank#354#355#356#357#358Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Cobalt2 Theme Official VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #356 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

Cobalt2 Theme Official ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 81 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.Cobalt2 Theme OfficialRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days81ratings72747678808284868890Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Cobalt2 Theme Official ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 81 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (3)
Recent installs observations for Cobalt2 Theme Official
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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=wesbos.theme-cobalt2. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.