20 Great Notepad++ Themes and Colour SchemesTwenty amazing Notepad++ themes and colour schemes and visual styles to use in 2020 with light, dark and elegant styles.
Using Notepad++ themes can enhance your coding experience in several ways, from Reduced Eye Strain and Improved Readability to Increased Productivity and creating a coding environment that is comfortable and visually appealing to you.
To use any of these Notepad++ themes and colour schemes, download the XML file and move it to your Notepad++ themes folder (typically C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Themes or C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\Themes). Restart Notepad++ if it is running, then from the settings menu select style configuration. You can select themes from the drop-down list.
Notepad++ Themes and colour schemes By Tim Trott
Here are a few colour schemes that I have created over the years for use with Notepad++. If there is any particular colour scheme you would like to see, drop me a line in the comments section below!
Neon Notepad++ Theme
If you want a dark, high contrast and bright colour scheme, look no further than our Neon theme. You can't get much more Neon than this!
Nautical but Nice
A dark blue pastel Notepad++ colour scheme based on colours of the sea using large fonts to create an eye-pleasing theme.
Girly Edition
A high contrast Notepad++ theme using white, blues and pinks which makes a surprisingly easy to read dark theme.
Notepad++ Themes from the Internet
And here is a list of great Notepad++ colour schemes from elsewhere on the internet.
Notepad ICLS
This theme is based on the default layout of Notepad++. Only a select few basic colours are used which are consistent between file types. This is different to most themes which use a unique colour for *everything* into one overwhelming rainbow of code. It's easy to comprehend code layout at-a-glance.
Notepad++ Visual Studio 2015 Dark Theme
A simple theme for notepad++ to match Visual Studio 2012/2013/2015 dark style.
Solarized Light Themes
Solarized is a sixteen-colour palette (eight monotones, eight accent colours) designed for use with terminal and GUI applications. Solarized reduces brightness contrast but, unlike many low-contrast colour schemes, it retains contrasting hues for syntax highlighting readability.
Solarized Dark Themes
Solarized is a sixteen-colour palette (eight monotones, eight accent colours) designed for use with terminal and GUI applications. Solarized reduces brightness contrast but, unlike many low-contrast colour schemes, it retains contrasting hues for syntax highlighting readability.
Waher-style Theme
A comfortable colour scheme with a dark background and eye-friendly colours for working long hours. The styles used are intended for a web developer and cover the most common files associated with web development.
Bespin theme for Notepad++
Mozilla introduced an experimental web-based code editor called Bespin which uses a brown-coloured theme which looks nice and is now ported to Notepad++.
Tomorrow Theme
A bright theme with pastel colours and sensible syntax highlighting. The download contains about 12 different themes all based on similar shades.
Material Theme (Dark) for Notepad++
Dracula
Obsidian PyCs
Notepad++ colour theme [Obsidian PyCs] based on the built-in Obsidian theme and inspired by Adobe Source Code Pro font announcement screenshot.
Slush & Poppies
This is a custom port of SublimeText's theme Slush & Poppies for Notepad++
Nord Notepad++ Theme
Notepad++ Visual Studio Light Theme
A simple theme for notepad++ to match Visual Studio colours. It's not exactly the same as the default but it's fairly close.
Disappeared
These Notepad++ themes have disappeared. If anyone has the files I can host them here or link to updated sites.
Eclipse colour scheme for Notepad++
A colour scheme which mimics the Eclipse IDE scheme as far as possible.
ChrisMar035 Notepad++ Theme
Another dark colour scheme from the blog of ChrisMar035 which is clear and easy to read.
Arabian Nights
A colourful and black and white colour scheme for Notepad++ with clear distinction between elements.
