A charming and colorful dark theme for Xcode 🌈.
I love Dark Mode. And I love dark themes in general. But I've always found the colors used by most dark themes to be downright ugly — stale, muddy, conflicting, and ultimately failing to take advantage of their darkened surroundings.
So the idea behind Charmed Dark is to create a palette of bright, charming, juicy primary colors that pop from a dark background, but still don't overwhelm and still play nicely with each other.
I hope you like it — but feel free to tweak as needed ✌️.
- Examples courtesy of crabinvader's Swift code examples project and bojan's Troop.
- Font used: Fira Code Retina, 13pt, with Relaxed Line Spacing
Simply download this project, then copy the Charmed Dark.xccolortheme file to:
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemesIf the folder doesn't exist, create it manually by prefacing the previous path with mkdir:
mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemesFurthermore, if you currently have Xcode open, you'll likely need to restart it to see the theme show up in the Preferences menu's list of options.
Despite the previous jab I made at dark theme colors, this theme was inspired by some notable outliers — particularly One Dark and the outstanding Dracula theme. I use Dracula as my theme for iTerm, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it 🧛.