These are dark themes, primarily aimed at web development. Personally, I use them daily with WebStorm, Sublime Text, and Aptana Studio, but they are suited for other IDEs too. Many similar themes I've tried in the past had several issues, which I've tried to address here:
- If the theme had a black background, typically the foreground colors were too intense/tiring.
- If the theme had an off-black background to subdue the foreground colors, this was often too light.
- Almost all themes relegated comments to fainter colors, to accentuate code more than comments. I actually like to do the opposite, and make comments stand out, since I try to have meaningful comments. That being said, I didn't want comments to overwhelm the code, so hopefully you'll find a good compromise here.
All themes have been tested with the following file types:
- CSS/CSS3
- HTML/HTML5
- JavaScript (inline and .js)
- PHP (inline and js)
- JSON (Sublime only)
- SQL (Sublime only)
- XML (Sublime only)
If you have any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to chime in: https://github.com/NeilCresswell/themes/issues
I'd love to come up with a Visual Studio theme based off of these, but don't have the time right now.
Suitable for Sublime Text and Eclipse-based IDEs such as Aptana Studio*.
- Developed with Aptana Studio 3.
- Tested against Aptana Studio 3 and Sublime Text 3.
- GitGutter support added for Sublime Text 3. (Untested. Feedback appreciated.)
- Comes in two flavours:
- Dark Room (Normal) has a slightly off-black background so the colors are more subdued.
- Dark Room (Contrast) has a full black (#000) background for use on laptops, etc.
How to install in Aptana Studio:
- Window / Preferences / Aptana Studio / Themes / Import / point to .tmTheme file.
Other IDE settings for an optimal experience:
- Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / pick Dark Studio theme with mixed colors
- Window / Preferences / Aptana Studio / Themes / Font:
- Droid Sans Mono Slashed 11 pt.
- Check "Apply to all (non-Studio) editors"
- You can find Droid Sans Mono Slashed in the /fonts folder of this project.
Suitable for WebStorm.
- Developed and tested with WebStorm 9 for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Probably works with other JetBrains products such as Android Studio and PHPStorm.
- Uses the Dark Room Texmate theme colors as a starting point, but with additional refinements.
How to install:
- File / Import Settings / point to DarkRoom.jar file and click OK
- File / Settings / Colors & Fonts / select "Dark Room" and click OK
There is no high contrast version since in WebStorm, this can be achieved with a single change:
- File / Settings / Colors & Fonts / General / Default text / click on background colour
- Enter "000000" into the "#" box or pick an appropriate background color of your choice.
Other IDE settings for an optimal experience:
- File / Settings / Appearance & Behaviour / Appearance:
- Theme: "Darcula" (this is a dark theme for the IDE wrapper, including menu bar.)
- Override default fonts by "Segoe UI", (if available,) size 14px.
- File / Settings / Editor / Colors & Fonts / Font:
- Show only monospaced fonts.
- Primary font: "Source Code Pro", size 14, line spacing 1.0.
- You can find Source Code Pro in the /fonts folder of this project.
