A lot of programmers like brightly colored syntax-highlighting themes for their source code editors. I do not. I find colorful high-contrast themes to be fatiguing, distracting, and annoying, so I've gravitated toward low-contrast themes like Zenburn and Havenjark. But even those feel too "busy" for me.
I've been on a retrocomputing kick lately, and I've missed the clean look of source code on the monochrome monitors I used in the good old days. So I've created some monochrome Xcode themes. If you like them, you can download them from here:
and copy them to your ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes directory, and then select them from the Xcode → Preferences → Fonts & Colors window.
These themes are also available as Sublime Text color schemes:
These were my simple rules for creating the themes:
- All colors have the same hue. They differ only in saturation and brightness.
- Comments are dim.
- Keywords are dim, but not as dim as comments.
- Numeric and string constants are bright, almost white.
- Other textual elements all have the same color.
I use Source Code Pro Light as my font, as I like the way the thin lines give a vector-graphics look.
Amber
Green
Blue
Blueprint
daVinci
