Charmed Dark 🎨

A charming and colorful dark theme for Xcode 🌈.

I love Dark Mode. And code-editing themes are no exception. But I've always found the colors used by most dark themes to be downright ugly — stale, muddy, conflicting, and ultimately failing to take advantage of their shadier surroundings.

So the idea behind Charmed Dark is to create a palette of bright, charming, juicy primary colors that pop from a dark background, please the eye, 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 ✌️.

📸 Screenshots

Switch Statements

SwiftUI Tab View

SwiftUI App

SwiftUI View With Previews

Regex Literal

Markdown

✍️ Typography

Main Fonts Used

Source Code

• Fira Code
  • 15 pt
  • Retina/Medium/Bold
  • Relaxed Line Spacing

Markup & Markdown

• SF Pro Text
• 15 pt
• Medium/Bold

Console & Debugger Text

• SF Mono
• Regular
• 13 pt

⬇️ Installation

If you haven't already done so, create a FontAndColorThemes directory inside of Xcode's UserData folder:

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

Then simply download this project and copy the Charmed Dark.xccolortheme file to the FontAndColorThemes directory:

cp Charmed\ Dark.xccolortheme ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/

From there, open up Xcode and head into Preferences > Themes, and select Charmed Dark from the list of theme options. (If you currently have Xcode open, you'll likely need to restart it before seeing Charmed Dark appear in the menu).

🙏 Credits

Despite the previous jab I made at most dark themes, Charmed Dark 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 🧛‍.