We just released a dark theme for Studio! It makes Studio look that much cooler and helps reduce eye fatigue!
Here are the steps to enable it:
File > Settings…
Select the Studio category
Change UI Theme to Dark (under General)
This is something that you have been requesting for many years so we are happy to finally deliver it to you. Thanks to @hahamonkey5 and @robDR for making this feature a reality!
We will be adding a color theme API in the next few weeks in order to allow plugins to be compatible with multiple themes.
This is a beautiful thing. Despite how much I complain, I’m truly grateful for this. Nice job team! Also, API for plugins? You took the words right out of my mouth
I will mention however, we should have the ability to customize the colors of the theme in the future (soon hopefully?), similiar to what Visual Studio does.
I think the main cause of it is that the colors follow a somewhat inverted stance. By that, I mean where lighter shades are in the light theme, that’s where the darker shades are in the dark theme. I don’t think this is ideal, especially in the borders between widgets.
By using a lighter shade between widgets, it gives the illusion of widgets being pushed in, rather than hovering like in the light theme. This causes every part of the studio window to feel connected in the dark theme, whereas in the light theme it truly felt like each widget was its own section of the screen.
The effect the light theme gives is what I prefer, whereas I prefer the shades of the dark theme.
Assuming this excitement is for the ability to modify the color scheme via plugin, I wouldn’t put your hopes too high. It’s been (sort of) made clear they plan for there to be more themes in one way or another, however the API mention here is more likely what @Maximum_ADHD mentioned in a post somewhere else, which is API for plugins to get info about the current color scheme. He could give more details than I could.
