Where can I download IntelliJ IDEA Color Schemes?

Question

I am an Eclipse user mainly and I find I must have a dark color scheme.

I cannot seem to find a dark color scheme as I search Google.

Where can I download IntelliJ IDEA Color Schemes? I am evaluating mainly for HTML/JavaScript.

Answer 1

I know I'm late to the party but just wanted to mention that this theme really is amazing.. I have a lot of themes and this one really is great for a # of reasons..

1. it handles glare very well (yes even pure black on matte screens can produce glare, unfortunately my new matte monitor - has a more "glary" coating than my old one).. this is a grayish-black background

2. it has enough colors that you can easily see read even dense code - some themes that look nice at first use too much of one color and it makes dense code harder to digest

3. the comments are all gray, this is even better than dark green which is my 2nd favorite choice.. it really helps the code pop out..

so basically this is a great anti-glare, anti-dense-code theme

Jumpout II

honorable mentions (I think these all can be found on that same site, although I'm not sure I spelled all of them correctly)

1. Dark Flash Builder (really great but at first the use of red can be confusing, but it is really one of its strengths. I had to modify it to make my error text highlighting different - I settled on some bright red underlined text)
2. Gedit Original Oblivion
3. Leone Dark II
4. Visual Studio 2013
5. Retta (very halloweeny)

and for white / beige / blue (in that order)

1. Oughsumm (wow best white ever, possibly the most legible theme I've ever seen - however, white is too bright for me in my current office situation, although occasionally I do switch to this when I want to quickly review a lot of code before a commit), also it is comfortably legible at 1 point smaller than all dark themes I've used.
2. humane-ist
3. rubyblue

p.s. please note I change the font of all the themes I use to Consolas 11 or 12 depending on the monitor. Consolas I find to be the best programming font out there. It looks great, easy to read and very well suited to LCD anti-aliasing. I tried so many programming fonts but I always come back to this one quickly. And it is not too narrow.. I'm not in the narrow camp, I believe narrow font aficionados don't program with ultra wide monitors - maybe program on a macbook or something just as bad :)

p.p.s I know solarized is supposed to be some kind of ultimate, magical, life-enhancing nirvana-inducing theme but I just don't get it.. I tried but failed to find it anything but annoying

Answer 2

Please note there are two very nice color schemes by default in IDEA 10.

The one that is included is named Railcasts. It is included with the Ruby plugin (free official plugin, install via plugin manager).

Answer 3

Since it is hard to find good themes for IntelliJ IDEA, I've created this site: http://color-themes.com/ where there is a large collection of themes. There are 270 themes for now and the site is growing.

P.S.: Help me and other people — do not forget to upvote when you download themes from this site!

Answer 4

If you're just looking for a dark color scheme for IntelliJ IDEA, this is the first link I get in a Google search:

Dark Pastels theme for IntelliJ IDEA

Of course, you can tweak either of these two schemes to your satisfaction. Don't feel like you have to stick to the fonts and the colors that the original authors have chosen. We programmers don't get nearly enough change to try our hand at interior decorating to pass up this opportunity.

Is there any reason these won't work in the version you have? As best I can tell, you can simply import any theme that you want.

Answer 5

I love the Monokai Theme (known from Sublime Text):

Answer 6

I made some improvements to the Darcula theme so it's a bit more usable for rubyists. You can find the repo and installation instructions Here.