What color is that? Building a color theme for Visual Studio

Question

When customizing my Visual Studio color scheme I am often confounded by the "Fonts and Colors" area.

Often, I want to change a specific color, say: the color used for TODO lines, but I need to read through 100s of color names just to figure out what that is. Often I am unable to figure what what color is what.

Is there any documentation out there that lists which colors are which?

Or even better, is there a plugin that allow me to highlight text in the editor and change the scheme of the selected text (figure out what color/s it is)?

Answer 1

I totally agree that this list is messy.

I personally find the Studio Styles page helpful to create Visual Studio color schemes.

If you click on Create a scheme and hover over the different code elements it will show you a tooltip with the naming of that item to find it in Visual Studio (like Keyword, User Types(Delegates), Brace Matching(Rectangle) etc.):

Of course you could also just build the complete theme then on their page and export it. It also provides an import functionality to change your pre-existing Visual Studio scheme directly there.

Anyhow, I would also love to have an extension to do so directly in Visual Studio ;)