IMO, the HTML5 icon many packages use for html files is too "loud" compared to the other icons in the set. For someone like me with mostly html files, it's a bit much IMO.

so i frequent replace it with a simpler set of angle brackets:

Any thoughts of changing this, or providing a setting somewhere for an alternate?
FWIW, even changing the color as in "vscode-great-icons" helps

As far as I know we cannot provide any sort of setting that could provide a change in the icons without doing some sort of code patching. We're now sticking to the official way of creating icon themes so this should be asked in the VSCode repo. I undestand that maybe you don't like this color but I'm not willing to change it at the moment. We try to stick to "official" icons where possible and most of the people seem to like it.
I would be glad to provide some sort of mechanism so you could change it but, again, this feature should be provided by the creators of the theme API. 馃槥
Unfortunately, there is so much we can do.
Just as a note. I'm studying a possible way to accomplish this and many other advanced features. I'll tell you something soon.
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As far as I know we cannot provide any sort of setting that could provide a change in the icons without doing some sort of code patching. We're now sticking to the official way of creating icon themes so this should be asked in the VSCode repo. I undestand that maybe you don't like this color but I'm not willing to change it at the moment. We try to stick to "official" icons where possible and most of the people seem to like it.
I would be glad to provide some sort of mechanism so you could change it but, again, this feature should be provided by the creators of the theme API. 馃槥