Dark and light custom UI themes for Sublime Text 2.
If you are a git user, the best way to install the theme and keep up to date is to clone the repo directly into your Packages directory in the Sublime Text 2 application settings area.
Go to your Sublime Text 2 Packages directory and clone the theme repository using the command below:
git clone https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/ "Theme - Soda"
- Download the files using the .zip download option
- Unzip the files and rename the folder to
Theme - Soda - Copy the folder to your Sublime Text 2
Packagesdirectory - Open your Sublime Text 2 User Global Preferences file
Sublime Text 2 -> Preferences -> User Global Settings - Add (or update) your theme entry to be
"theme": "Soda Light.sublime-theme"or"theme": "Soda Dark.sublime-theme"
{
"theme": "Soda Light.sublime-theme"
}
The code highlighting colour scheme shown in the Soda Light screenshot is Espresso tutti colori.tmTheme, which was originally based on the Espresso Editor default colour scheme and ported to TextMate by Martin Kühl.
The code highlighting colour scheme shown in the Soda Dark screenshot is an ever so slightly tweaked version of Monokai that I created.
- Download the
tmthemefile from Martin's repo to the Sublime Text 2Packages/Userfolder. - Enable the colour scheme via
Preferences -> Color Scheme -> User.
The code font shown in the screenshot is Meslo, which is a modified version of Menlo.
Soda theme is designed to work with the latest development build of Sublime Text 2. ST2 dev builds move quickly and changes can occur with the theme API between releases, so there may be occassions where the theme doesn't quite work with a brand new dev release.
PLEASE NOTE: In a recent update, the Soda theme folder location was moved to "Packages".
The theme has now been updated to work when placed inside the Packages folder instead of inside Packages/User. If you have cloned the theme into the User folder, you will see a broken theme (with red backgrounds) on the next git pull. To correct this issue, move the "Theme - Soda" folder from inside User to inside Packages.
See GitHub: Theme location issue and Sublime Forum: Theme location discussion for more details.
There are some aspects of the Soda theme design I would like to improve such as the overall quickpanel design. It might be that I haven't figured out the correct rules yet, or that the theme system doesn't expose certain features as being editable.
One area that needs to be addressed with both themes is removing the rendering of the background colour taken from the syntax highlighting scheme in the input fields of the UI.
While developing the theme, I have documented some theme challenges and ideas encountered along the way.
The theme contains some icons from the excellent Pictos series by Drew Wilson which I have a license for. Any use of these icons, other than for the purpose of the theme itself, would need to comply with Drew's icon licensing agreement.