Hey HN, I built a small VS Code extension that gives every workspace a distinct title bar color so you can tell windows apart at a glance.

If you work across multiple projects throughout the day, all your VS Code windows look identical. I kept cmd-tabbing into the wrong one, so I made this.

How it works: - When you open a folder, it deterministically hashes the workspace path into an HSL color, so each project always gets the same color. - Saturation and lightness are tuned per theme (Dark/Light/High Contrast). - Foreground text picks white or black based on WCAG 2.0 contrast ratio. - You can also randomize or pick from 14 hue presets via the command palette. - Only touches the five titleBar.* keys — nothing else is modified. - It's ~300 lines of TypeScript, MIT licensed, no dependencies beyond the VS Code API.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wstuckey...

Source: https://github.com/wstuckey/colored-title-bar