The Solarized Theme for Matlab http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized Append the contents to your Matlab .prf configuration file and restart Matlab. On Windows 7 this is at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MathWorks\MATLAB\R20XX\matlab.prf On OS X or Linux, this should be at ~/.matlab/R20XX/matlab.prf where ``XX`` is your MATLAB version number. On OSX with Matlab R2017a (and this may apply to older versions), the prf file is located in a different location https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/prefdir.html e.g., '/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/MathWorks/MATLAB/R2017a' Because Matlab doesn't offer highlighting rules for numbers, etc, this stays as close as possible to the Solarized theme.