Pure black background in PyCharm CE and Android St

Question

While my search for a Python debugger on Emacs remains unfulfilled, I am giving PyCharm CE a test drive.

Already on my second day I'm encountering a trivial but frustrating point. Is it possible to set the background to be pitch black in just one place?

A program written by programmers for programmers should certainly have included a feature such as "change the background for Docstrings, Comments, Keywords, ... the whole shebang" to black, but I don't see it.

I understand of course that some parts of the UI will stubbornly refuse to change, and I'm OK with that, just so long as the Python code itself appears on a pure black background.

The Twilight and Mokokai themes come close, but their backgrounds still leave ample "contrast room" that could be used by darkening the background color.

(How do we get from left to right... err.. I mean.. how do we get darker than we are.. um, wait... Isn't the version on the right so much easier on the eye.. but anyway, how can we do it?)

Update

The exact same problem and solution apply to Android Studio.

Answer 1

In File > Settings:

Go to Editor > Colors & Fonts > General

Choose the theme you want to modify (will likely need to Save As... your own as you can't modify the default color schemes.

Go to the Text > Default Text colors and change the background to black. The only ones that won't be affected are the syntax highlighters that define their own background (usually select/highlight/errors/etc.)