I'm a fan of Juicy, which is a part of Dayle Rees' color scheme pack here: https://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes
I find myself switching through a lot of them, also a fan of Peel, Laravel, and Solarflare.
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I've been using GitHub theme, but I'm tired of a light theme. Share what you use (and I might take a few ideas :p).
I'm a fan of Juicy, which is a part of Dayle Rees' color scheme pack here: https://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes
I find myself switching through a lot of them, also a fan of Peel, Laravel, and Solarflare.
I'm using Peacocks in Space at the moment, looks really good in my opinion.
Standard Peacock, dark background theme with bright text, also from Dayle's GitHub
I am using Peel, which is part of Dayle Rees's color scheme package, at the moment.
Peel is the color theme which is used by @Jeffrey_Way in his most recent tutorials on Building Larabook.
I am with @kai_desu and @Rovansteen on this one. I find Juicy and Peacocks in Space to be the best themes. Spacegray and Spacegray Eighties are also awesome themes. But Dayle Rees' are the best. Check them out, you might find a favourite one!
Yeah, Spacegray looks really great as well. Using that on Sublime, unfortunately it looked really weird in PHPStorm when I tried it.
Dayle Rees' themes are awesome i'm using 'Peel' with a few bits of customization.
I use custom color scheme, here it is

I use phpStorm build in Darcula theme. Liked it so much that I created the same theme under Coda 2 since I use both editors!
I use Peacock. That theme replaced Monokai for me after really long time.
I just started using this one: https://github.com/dd3v/Base16-PhpStorm-color-schemes
Which is ported from a sublime text theme: http://chriskempson.github.io/base16/#ocean
I did have to make some adjustments but that always seems to be needed. :(
Darcula, but have changed a lot of things like line height spacing etc
Using Peel by Dayle Rees'
I tryed change themes while ago, with daylerees ones, but most of them cant import on phpstorm, giving errors always on same line, its something about a tag missing a '='... Anyone had that issue? Already tryed diferent themes.
I edited darcula from PHPStorm to add more contrast (darker background, brighter text) and removed bold because I couldn't find a font that I like and renders properly in bold.

I am actually using a Monokai theme adapted for PhpStorm. I like the color scheme of Sublime quite a bit, so it seemed like a solid theme to use.
Peacocks in Space for me.
A little bit off-topic. I like this one a lot, but it's only for Atom.
I also use Darcula, it's quite nice! I might change it tough cause i want the same theme on sublime and phpstorm but can't find a Darcula port to sublime.
I use a slightly modified version of CreativeSide...
Tomorrow Night Eighties based on base16 eighties similar to spacegray eighties I love this theme very much.
Tomorrow Night Eighties also, just love it! Most of the themes I see are too bright but the colours are a bit dulled down and easier to read in this one.
Anyone knows the current used theme from Jeff ? (i.e. Whats new in Laravel 5.0 Series)
I use Peacock :D
I use the darcula theme for the IDE and then Solarized Dark for color theme
Dracula theme
I use a custom theme I built to mimic Sublime's Phoenix Dark Blue theme. I think I got it pretty close.
@schogetten - I think he still uses Peel from Dayle Rees; http://daylerees.github.io/
Peel
@ovvessem - thanks, but i think he modified it a bit, don´t you ? :)
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