To add a color scheme to BBEdit, copy it into the “Color Schemes” support folder. (You can get to the correct folder by choosing “Color Schemes” from the “Folders” submenu of the BBEdit application menu.)
Then, open the Preferences window and click “Appearance”, and select the desired color scheme. (Note that the color scheme selection applies to the prevailing system appearance — Light Mode or Dark Mode — and you can select a different scheme to use for each respective light or dark appearance.)
You can view, edit, and create new color schemes in the “Text Colors” preferences.
User-created color schemes
- Base16 (see more about base16)
- Beebe Dark (old version)
- Charcoal
- Bell Dark, Gruber Light, and Gruber Dark
- pgib
- Solarized Dark and Solarized Light
- Twilight
- Another Twilight-ish Color Sheme
- U23D, Gentle Honey, Zen and Tea, and more
- Smoky Jazz
- Espresso-ish
- Git repository of several Color Schemes
- the Tomorrow theme has a dark and light theme for BBEdit
- The default BBEdit Colors, but reversed
- Dracula
- Synthwave