If colors do not make you happy you can change the icons to have less saturation making them look grayish or completely grayscale by setting saturation to 0: 'material-icon-theme.saturation': 0.5 You can set a custom opacity for the icons: 'material-icon-theme.opacity': 0.5 You can change the design of the folder icons using the command palette: You can change the color of the default file and folder icons using the command palette: Get the Material Design icons into your VS Code.įile icons Folder icons Customize file & folder color