IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 Web Help

With IntelliJ IDEA, you can maintain your preferable colors and fonts layout for syntax and error highlighting in the editor, search results, Debugger and consoles via font and color schemes.

IntelliJ IDEA comes with a number of pre-defined color schemes. You can select one of them, or create your own one, and configure its settings to your taste. Note that pre-defined schemes are not editable. You have to create a copy of the scheme, and then change it as required.

To configure color and font scheme
  1. Open the IDE Settings, and under the Editor node, click Colors & Fonts.
  2. Select the desired scheme from the Scheme name drop-down list.
  3. If you need to change certain settings of the selected scheme, create its copy. To do that, click Save as button, and type the new scheme name in the dialog box.

    createColorScheme

  4. Open pages to configure specific color preferences and font types for the different supported languages and IntelliJ IDEA components.

    createColorScheme1

  5. Observe results in the preview pane:

    createColorScheme2

    You can also view how the new scheme looks in the editor. To do that, just click Apply without closing the Settings dialog box.

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