Dark Theme For Arduino Ide

Made by the lonely programmer / Art / Displays / Productivity

About the project

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the dark theme for your Arduino IDE for the reason of overexposure to the screen light.

Project info

Difficulty: Easy

Platforms: Arduino

Estimated time: 1 hour

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA version 4.0 or later (CC BY-NC-SA 4+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino

x 1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Story

Step 1: Downloading the Dark Theme

First, we need to download the dark theme in the link below.

https://github.com/jeffThompson/DarkArduinoTheme

Extract and open the zip file to your computer.

Step 2: Open File Location

Go the directory where you installed or save the Arduino IDE.

In my case I installed it to the drive C of my computer.

The Default directory "C:Program Files (x86)Arduinolib"

Step 3: Backup Original Theme

Back up your old theme folder inorder to restore the original theme.

Step 4: Replace the Original Theme With the Dark Theme

Replace the downloaded theme on the directory.

Step 5: Play Time

Restart the Arduino IDE and it will run dark theme.

Code

Credits

the lonely programmer

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