Microsoft's effort to redesign several dev tooling icons came to light in a GitHub issue filed to request a new VS Code icon for Mac OS X in May 2016. Out of that discussion, new VS Code icons were ...

Add an aesthetic touch VS Code allows extensions to contribute different icon themes, and vscode-icons provides a rich set of custom icons that are highly recognizable for a vast array of ...

"As a result, we are going change the Stable icon to the much-loved blue." Eventually, a couple years later, Microsoft did manage to slam through new VS Code icons, as reported in the August 2019 ...