A charming and colorful dark theme for Xcode 🌈.

I love Dark Mode. And I love dark themes in general. But I've always found the colors used by most dark themes to be downright ugly — stale, muddy, conflicting, and ultimately unbecoming of their shady surroundings.

So the idea behind Charmed Dark is to create a palette of bright, charming, juicy primary colors that pop from a dark background, but still don't overwhelm and still play nicely with each other.

I hope you like it — but feel free to tweak things as needed ✌️.

• Open the project's test files in Xcode to view things for yourself (though I've noticed some issues with syntax highlighting if the code isn't placed in an actual project).
• Fonts used
  • Fira Code for code
    • 13pt
    • Retina/Medium/Bold
    • Relaxed Line Spacing
  • SF Pro Text for Markup

Simply download this project, then copy the Charmed Dark.xccolortheme file to:

~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes

If the folder doesn't exist, create it manually by prefacing the previous path with mkdir:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes

Furthermore, if you currently have Xcode open, you'll likely need to restart it to see the theme show up in the Preferences menu's list of options.

Despite the previous jab I made at dark mode colors, this theme was inspired by some notable outliers — particularly One Dark and the outstanding Dracula theme. I use Dracula as my theme for iTerm, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it 🧛‍.