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BenSmith's avatar

I'm a big fan of light themes. For the last 6 months or so I've been using Dayle's Snappy Light theme:

rigwit's avatar

Goldfish for the moment, with slightly increased font size and line height settings.

stefanbauer's avatar

@bashy - well when i am honest, it is a longterm individual development over months :-) I started some months (i think years) ago, and improve it always based on the needs. I am sure, in some weeks there are again very smaller changes. But i think it is for personally a very "final" state. But themes are always kind of "personal taste". What for me is perfect, could be for others horror :) Same for the other side, some i saw here are great for them, but horror for me :-D You know what i mean.

bashy's avatar

So a custom one, cool! Looks nice and the colours are split up pretty well

litechip's avatar

I was an avid Sublime text user and I really liked the Dark-Monokai color scheme so I made some tweaks and this is the result: Screenshot

RyanDennler's avatar

I believe the theme that looks like that is TIBAU - can get it here: https://github.com/richellyitalo/colorschemetibau/ - the one he uses for PHPStorm. This is based off of Jeffrey Way's color scheme he uses.

I changed the font setting in it to Ubuntu Mono @ size 16 with Bold because it looks alot smoother looking with the color combination but you can use whatever you like.

hpolthof's avatar

I'm using the darcula theme. Easy on the eyes.

ianrobertdouglas's avatar

I use "predawn" by Jamie Wilson for Sublime Text and Atom (https://github.com/jamiewilson/predawn). Does anyone know if a port has been made for PhPStorm? I'd love to find a full predawn based UI theme for PhPStorm. I contacted Jamie a while back and he said he didn't know of one, but would be open to collaborate with anyone developing a PhPStorm port.

lori's avatar

Default light theme with font size and line height increased. Sometimes switch to one of Dayle's themes with the same modifications when I need a dark theme for variety and/or eyestrain relief.

dannys's avatar

Zeus theme looks realy good, specially when working with Laravel, however i changed some custom reds that were a little dark.

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