Got annoyed by the super bright default theme of the Arduino IDE. Decided to make a dark theme for it! Turned out pretty well!

Unfortunately there is no official way of themeing right now, therefore I had to edit some files in the program's directory, which was a pain in the ass to do... (and kinda scary)

I tried to adapt the Material Theme in Sublime Text btw.

Here's a comparison:

More detailed pic:

Funniest part was that if you try to change the color of the default "setup" and "loop" function, you also change the color of "if", "while", etc.

Nice

You should look into platformio. I just use sublime and all the sublime c++ add ons I want, then build through platformio. You can even add a build script to build multiple hex files for different platforms. It also will link AVR libraries as well as arduino libraries.

Can‘t ++ because it’s not Monokai

All the servos 8)

Black theme for arduino is like putting black on scrach editor...

The hero we need, but don’t deserve

I used to use an external editor like Notepad ++. Nowadays I'd go with vscode, there should exist pretty cool plug-ins for it too

Please don't use arduino ide :) Install VSCode with plugin platformIO.

Very nice but why didn't you just use an already dark editor and flash the programs via avrdude?

Nice!

Could you please share more details on how you did it?

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<@qwwerty>
In the IDE's program directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino on Windows), you have to go to lib/theme. Here you find several images you can edit and also a theme.txt, where you can change the color scheme and some of the fonts.
In the theme directory there's also a "syntax" directory with two xml files. These contain some extra styling stuff and also kinda overwrite theme.txt (don't know who thought this would be a good idea...)

I also changed the editor font. This can be done in the Arduino Program Data directory (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Arduino15 on Windows), in the preferences.txt file.

Also look here:
https://github.com/AbhishekGhosh/...
which contains a collection of other themes.

<@Ximidar> <@WildOrangutan>
I know of PlatformIO and even tried it once, although I like having everything in one place, without the need to install extra stuff.
The IDE might be shit, but it also has some useful features.

<@ePinikion>
Used Monokai for a year and a half, got boring.

<@beegC0de>
Not written by me :)
That's the Firmata Source Code. Just used it as an example.

@Skayo Never gets boring. If ure used to a syntax highlighting, it‘s hard to switch. And monokai is simply the best imo

Or you could have used sublime... It supports Arduino Ide.

Material Theme is best theme! I won't divulge the embarrassingly large amount of time I've spent porting it to SSMS and VS2017.

I've been studying arduino for over 3 years now. During this time I learned how to choose themes and customize the interface for myself individually.

Nice

Could you please share more details on how you did it?

Here are some good practice kits