Customizing themes and fonts is essential in my coding environment. The default themes installed with Xcode 4 are a bit, let’s say, shabby.

Your code doesn’t have to look so sour. I’ve collected a list of Xcode themes and fonts that you can install.

Xcode theme’s

All themes listed below can be downloaded on GitHub. To install the themes, copy them to the Xcode’s FontAndColorThemes folder (~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/) and restart Xcode.

Darkcloud

Darkcloud

EGO V2

by Enormego EGO V2

Kelly’s

Kelly's

Monokai

Monokai

Night

Night

Quiet Light

One of the few light themes that made the list. Quiet Light

Railscast

Inspired by the famous Railscast TextMate theme. Railscast

Sidewalk Chalk

Sidewalk Chalk

Solarized Light

Solarized Light

Tomorrow

Available for all kind of editors on GitHub. Tomorrow

Tomorrow Dark

Nice dark variant. Tomorrow Dark

Yozora

My absolute favorite! Yozora



Bitstream Vera Sans (download)

Bitstream Vera Sans

Consolas (instructions to download on Mac)

Consolas

Courier Prime (download)

Thanks for the tip Damian Carrillo. Courier Prime

Droid Sans Mono (download)

Droid Sans Mono

Inconsolata (download)

Inconsolata

Menlo

My favorite. Shipped with Mac OS. Meno

Meslo (download)

Xcode does not offer any line height options. It’s one of the reasons I use Meslo, a great alternative for Menlo. It comes in three ‘line-height’ sizes (S, M, L). Meslo

Monaco

Great font, also shipped with Mac OS. Monaco

Panic Sans (install instructions)

Provided with Coda. Panic sans

Source Code Pro (download)

Adobe’s open source font. Recommended! Source Code Pro Font

Ubuntu Mono (install instructions)

Ubuntu Mono