Based on the most epic theme for Visual Studio Code made by @equinusocio, Material Theme. It's a great theme with beautiful colors and plenty of themes to keep things fresh and current.
Bear uses XML for their themes which is easy to modify and create your own. That said, some easy "hacking" is involved as they do not officially support third party themes.
Instructions are included below. It's a short list, don't worry.
12/28/18 - I've already created themes and icons for all Material Theme variants. Lighter will be available soon.
12/27/18 - Happy Holidays everyone! The Default theme is ready for use. Pale Night was slightly tweaked as well.
12/14/18 – Work on support for all Material Theme variants has begun.. stay tuned!
- Pale Night
- Default
- Lighter - now in progress
- Ocean
- Darker
Each Material Theme variant I've created has a different name used to replace a theme within Bear itself. So far I've created Pale Night [/themes/palenight] and Default [/themes/default]
- If open, quit Bear.
- Go to your Applications folder.
- Locate and Right-Click on Bear. Select "Show Package Contents."
- Navigate to
Contents/Resources. - Create backups for all
*.themefiles. - Copy the
themes/[theme-name].themefiles you'd like to use to this location. - Open Bear, go to preferences, and make sure
[theme-name]is the selected theme.
I've created Bear app icon replacements for each theme variant. The Bear developers decided to make icons a little tougher to customize as well. Thankfully, not too hard. To install and ensure the theme icon is always displayed requires the following:
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First, Update
Contents/Resources/AppIcon.icnswith the icon files included (themes/[theme-name]/icon*.png). -
Second, to work while open you must edit Bear's Assets.car file (
/Applications/Bear.app/Contents/Resources/Assets.car) using Theme Engine. Be sure to replace both images inAssets.car/AppIcon [theme-name]. -
When finished enable the "App icon matches theme" option in Bear's Themes preferences panel.
Unfortunately after each Bear update you may have to do this process over again. Be sure to keep these files available locally or, I recommend, to clone the repo so you can more easily keep up to date. I use this theme so I intend to keep it up to date as Bear is updated.
If I miss anything...
If you have any ideas or notice issues please let me know by adding an Issue.
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Note: I did not create Bear (macOS/iOS/etc.) or the Material Theme color scheme, palette or anything related unless specified otherwise. I am not affiliated with their creators in any manner.