What is .xccolortheme file?

• .xccolortheme is XCode COLOR THEME file
• This is the color-theme file used by Apple's Xcode, an IDE used to develop iOS and Mac OS X applications; contains data that describes the color theme of the code editor; includes the text color, text font, and text background color of different elements of source code editing, such as Plain Text, Strings, URLs, Attributes, and Comments.
• It's preferred to use Xcode to open xccolortheme file extensions.
• The theme files are in XML format
  • with colors stored as RGBA values in a string, e.g.

...
    <key>DVTSourceTextSyntaxColors</key>
<dict>
    <key>xcode.syntax.attribute</key>
    <string>0.512 0.423 0.157 1</string>
</dict>
...

• and fonts stored as font name - size in string, e.g. for normal fonts

...
    <key>DVTMarkupTextCodeFont</key>
    <string>TrebuchetMS - 12.0</string>
...

and for bold fonts

...
    <key>DVTConsoleDebuggerInputTextFont</key>
    <string>TrebuchetMS-Bold - 13.0</string>
...

🎨 Custom Xcode theme - Dawn

This repository contains a sample the Xcode color & font theme for Dawn colors and steps how to create your own custom theme for Xcode IDE.

Installing Dawn.xccolortheme

• The easiest way to install this Xcode theme is to download Dawn.xccolortheme file and place it at

~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/...

• Now restart Xcode
• If the folder FontAndColorThemes doesn't exist, simply create one.

Customization

If you want to create your own custom theme for Xcode IDE, with your choice of colors and font selection, simply copy Dawn.xccolortheme file and rename it with your theme name, and then edit the colors, font names with font size, etc. After you're done, simply place it at the above folder location, and restart Xcode.

Author

Noor ul Ain Ali (noorulain.ali89@gmail.com)