
I hope that during that transition Arduino IDE reads the config files and selects the respective light and dark themes based on the user's Theia default theme choice. With the backstory of them being Theia's default themes (and Theia being an IDE framework and not a fancy old Greek name for a theme) their existence makes sense. I hope the old themes get removed soon because to me as a user it was not known that these are deprecated, and from a dev perspective the term seems odd to use. Switching from Theia Light to Theia Arduino gives an "aha"-moment and gives sense to a lot of design choices (especially the icons in the top right corner) I have observed during my use of the release candidates.

For this reason, the " Dark (Theia)" and " Light (Theia)" themes are deprecated and no longer supported by Arduino (the high contrast theme continues to be supported since this potentially provides unique value in improving accessibility). Since Arduino's themes are functional replacements for the dark and light Theia themes, development resources are more effectively allocated to other aspects of the project than to supporting and maintaining Theia's themes. The Theia project provides several themes:Īrduino has created bespoke themes which carry forward and expand the distinctive Arduino design style into this new release of the Arduino IDE:Īll five of these themes are currently listed under the " Theme" menu of the Arduino IDE Preferences dialog.
Arduino ide themes free#
Describe the current behaviorĪrduino IDE 2.x is built on the free open source Eclipse Theia IDE framework. 🙂 Users will not be offered superfluous unsupported theme options.

zip-file into the lib folder and from the dialog box click replace all.

Copy the original “theme” folder to another location for backup.

The default directory is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\lib”. Go to the directory where Arduino is installed. Replace the “Theme” folder inside the Arduino installation folder
Arduino ide themes zip file#
Step by Step Instruction to Set Dark Theme Step 1ĭownload the Dark Theme zip file from here: Download Step 2 Here we have added a zip file of Arduino Dark Theme, which is nice, but I prefer a different colour scheme. Furthermore, there aren’t many other themes to choose from. I created this project because I dislike the usual colour palette of the Arduino IDE, which consists of green, orange, and white.
