IDE 2.0 Change colors in existing theme

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Hi @RoadEasyGentleman

@RoadEasyGentleman

create a new theme in Visual Studio

It is not necessary to create a new theme. There are thousands of existing 3rd party themes available. Surely one of those must be to your liking?

I wrote instructions for installing 3rd party themes in Arduino IDE 2.x here:

Personal themes

Hi @F6EEQ. Arduino IDE 2.x uses a completely different theme system than Arduino IDE 1.x, so none of the information about the 1.x theme system is applicable in any way to Arduino IDE 2.x. Arduino IDE 2.x is built on the Eclipse Theia IDE framework, which allows it to use VS Code themes. Table of Contents Install a Pre-Made Theme Find Theme Install Theme in Arduino IDE Make a Custom Theme Generate VS Code Extension Template Design Theme Manually VS Code Theme Studio Install Theme …

@RoadEasyGentleman

No one would use those colors on a commercial web page because they are just too difficult to read. The bright colors on white of black are worse for me.

If you have specific feedback about how the official themes can be improved, I recommend you to submit an issue report to the Arduino IDE developers here:

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/new/choose