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Colors and fonts

Last modified: 31 May 2024

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.

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

Light editor scheme

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

By default, there are the following predefined color schemes:

  • Dark: designed for the Dark interface theme in New UI

  • Light: designed for the Light and Light with Light Header interface themes in New UI

  • High Contrast: designed for the High contrast interface theme (recommended for users with sight deficiency)

  • Classic Light: designed for the macOS Light and Windows 10 Light interface themes

  • IntelliJ Light: designed for the IntelliJ Light interface theme in Classic UI

  • Darcula: designed for the Darcula interface theme

  • Darcula Contrast: high-contrast scheme designed for the Darcula interface theme