IntelliJ IDEA Dark Theme

For whatever reason, dark IDE themes are all the rage these days. Somewhat surprisingly, there aren’t a lot of great options available for IntelliJ IDEA. So, I decided to make one.

Here’s what it looks like:

You can get the theme on gitHub.

To install, just copy it to the colors folder under your IDEA install (on my Mac it was under /user/Library/Preferences/IdeaIC11/colors). Then go to Preferences/Editor/Colors & Fonts and select it:

Feel free to tweak it as you see fit!

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