How to set the Arduino IDE to dark mode

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Dark Mode

This is a memorandum of how I changed the Arduino IDE to dark mode (dark background color).

Please refer to the article on changing the Spyder to dark colors in the Python integrated development environment.

Environment

The environment we tried is as follows.

Default setting

By default, the background color is black text on a white background.

How to change

Get the dark theme

Go to jeffThompson’s Github here and download the dark theme using Code -> Download ZIP.

The file name is “DarkArduinoTheme-master.zip”.

As mentioned in README.md, Jeff Thompson no longer maintains this theme, so use it with understanding.

Unzip it

When you unzip the downloaded DarkArduinoTheme-master.zip, you will see the following folder structure.

├─DarkArduinoTheme-master
│  │      
│  ├─DarkArduinoTheme-master
│  │  │
│  │  ├──theme　・・・ Use the folder here
│  │  │  │

Replacing the theme

Replacing the theme

Overwrite the theme folder in the folder where Arduino IDE is installed (C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\lib\theme by default) with the new theme folder, but rename and save the original theme before doing so.

Before you do this, rename the original theme and save it.

Copy the theme by folder.

Restarting the Arduino IDE

If you quit and restart the Arduino IDE, it has changed to a dark theme.

More color changes

Change the background color, function names, comments, etc. to the color you want.

Correction point

C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\lib¥theme\theme.txt

Comparison before and after change

The color on the left is before modification, and the color on the right is after modification.

I was able to change the color to the one I generally like.

That concludes this article.

I hope this article will be useful to someone somewhere.