Xcode Themes

Six themes for Xcode — four dark, two light. One font, one naming scheme.

Themes

Dark

Theme	Backdrop	Description
Ember Dusk	#0E0E0E	Slate comments with warm orange strings and numbers, teal types. A conventional warm palette that stays out of the way on a long session.
Knight Dusk Moss	#101010	Jade classes and types, yellow declarations, amber macros, and every regex token in magenta. High separation between token kinds.
Knight Midnight	#070917	A blue cast runs through the editor and the console too, with bright jade identifiers against it. The signature theme of the set.
Ruby Dusk Ember	#101010	The most colourful theme here: red strings, pink keywords, mint and violet identifiers on neutral black. Built for contrast.

Light

Theme	Backdrop	Description
Lagoon Zenith	#FFFFFF	Neutral grey comments instead of the coloured ones most light themes reach for, with teal-forward identifiers. Quiet enough to disappear behind the code.
Prism Zenith	#FFFFFF	Warm brown comments, pink keywords, blue and violet declarations. Richer than Lagoon, for when you want colour in a light theme.

Naming

Every theme is <Mode> <Accent> <Backdrop> — no numbers, no suffixes to decode.

• Accent — what glows in it: Ember, Moss, Ruby, Lagoon, Prism
• Backdrop — the sky behind it: Dusk #101010, Midnight navy black, Zenith #FFFFFF

The dark set spans two families: Knight (One Dark's deep-navy variant, amber macros, magenta regex) and Ember (slate comments, warm orange strings).

Install

1. Install the font — every theme uses JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, and without it Xcode quietly falls back to a system mono: nerd-fonts/releases → JetBrainsMono Nerd Font. Unzip into ~/Library/Fonts.

2. Install the themes:

   git clone https://github.com/suhitp/xcode-theme.git
   cd xcode-theme
   ./scripts/install.sh

   Pass --clean to also drop older themes from this repo that have since been renamed or removed, so your picker stays tidy.

3. Restart Xcode, then Settings ▸ Themes and pick one.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.