Dark Mode for Arduino IDE

Night Programming | Quick Tutorial

screenshot of dark-mode within Arduino IED

This article is for you if you are a night owl programmer like myself. The Arduino IED theme is set up with one default theme. So let's change it to dark mode.

1. First, we want to download the theme at https://github.com/taunoe/arduino-dark-theme/raw/master/tauno-dark-theme.zip
2. Now find your sketchbook location by going to Arduino IDE -> File -> Preferences.
3. Now we need to make a new folder called “themes” within that location we just looked up in step 2.
4. Take the tauno-dark-theme.zip folder and place it into this new theme folder.
5. Go back to File -> Preferences and change to the tauno-dark-theme by selecting it in the theme dropdown. Click ok when done.

Note: The theme does not change automatically and requires a restart before the theme is applied.

Great! Happy programming in Dark Mode!