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A collection of light and dark schematic colour themes for KiCAD designed to be easy on the eyes for long nerding sessions.

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KiCAD Themes
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A collection of schematic colour themes for KiCAD, designed for long design sessions and be easy on the eyes.
The light and dark themes are inspired by popular code editor palettes (Nord Arctic, Gruvbox Warm Dark, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine Moon, Monokai Vivid), industry EDA tools (Altium, DesignSpark, Eagle, Multisim, OrCAD and PADS), and original designs of my own making — all carefully crafted to ensure every schematic element is clearly visible against its background.

Installation:
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Close KiCAD if it's open, then copy any .json file into your KiCAD colours directory:

- Linux: ~/.config/kicad/<version>/colors/
- Windows: %APPDATA%\kicad\<version>\colors\
- macOS: ~/Library/Preferences/kicad/<version>/colors/

Run KiCAD then select the theme under Preferences → Preferences → Schematic Editor → Colors

Themes were all tested on KiCAD 9.0.8 and 10.0

Screenshots:
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Altium Midnight Blue
<img width="2347" height="1613" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/efb6358e-0007-4afb-a156-5e8e2823de03" />

Altium Soft Slate
<img width="2345" height="1611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/72d48956-02bf-4fe5-8a30-740f897f9766" />

Cadence Soft Ember
<img width="2345" height="1614" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a75919ab-adf2-4feb-8788-0fd3b08138d1" />

Cadence Steel Noir
<img width="2343" height="1609" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/09e3f3be-a844-4198-8f6b-336eaaa548c9" />

Cosmo Deep Jade
<img width="2346" height="1613" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fff7ed6b-07af-40ea-ac28-5710bb2861e4" />

Cosmo Gold
<img width="2343" height="1613" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c6a80509-1fb1-4c14-b17f-b62e59fc066e" />

Cosmo Soft Gold
<img width="2344" height="1612" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d1c10bd-1a09-4f70-8483-606f26f553dc" />

Eagle Soft Amber
<img width="2342" height="1609" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0578bc4d-2e8f-4963-8ea5-9547be8c929a" />

Fusion Slate Amber
<img width="2346" height="1610" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/83d521ae-e189-4405-bff8-7f0d94da1e70" />

Gruvbox Warm Dark
<img width="2344" height="1607" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93d7fc5c-a256-4ae7-a071-1e00f8646f92" />

Monokai Vivid
<img width="2342" height="1609" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43345a77-7d69-49d7-9e74-b2fc1f3418b7" />

Nord Arctic
<img width="2345" height="1609" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/201798ba-97e0-43cd-bef3-c83a506f494f" />

PADS Dark Navy
<img width="2343" height="1613" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7deb167c-329c-4292-bacd-f33acc4bf8c4" />

PADS Soft Twilight
<img width="2344" height="1611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5b99abe3-65c3-4d56-81a3-03b18512aaa7" />

Rose Pine Moon
<img width="2346" height="1611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fc55d98b-bcf9-4fb6-ab23-79279b85608c" />

Tokyo Night
<img width="2344" height="1612" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a7215166-a46c-40ea-8c64-087c6c00891a" />

Altium Designer Light
<img width="2385" height="1645" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9fb50aec-5de8-4785-9f66-14e8bdab99d0" />

DesignSpark PCB Light
<img width="2385" height="1641" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c488a42-4e0e-49c5-af71-9a2bc5e00af6" />

Eagle Light
<img width="2384" height="1641" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/09846264-780e-40e8-8814-1d4b4b48a3c0" />

NI Multisim Light
<img width="2387" height="1642" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f834aea-507b-4f51-b811-dc193370ce53" />

OrCAD Light
<img width="2386" height="1639" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c6688528-50fd-4eb7-906d-2bb41de9b960" />

PADS Light
<img width="2386" height="1644" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/063707e6-42ec-4f95-8141-66a521013ed1" />

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