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Colors and fonts

Last modified: 13 January 2025

As a developer, you work with a lot of text resources: the source code in the editor, search results, debugger information, console input and output, and so on. Color and font styles are used to format this text and help you better understand it at a glance.

CLion lets you choose between configurable color schemes that define colors and fonts used in IDE text.

You can use a predefined color scheme or customize it to your liking. It is also possible to share schemes.

You can customize a predefined color scheme, but it is recommended that you create a duplicate for your custom color and font settings: