Sublime Text is a popular text editor that’s a favorite of many web developers when it comes to what tool they prefer to use to write their code. One of the many cool features of Sublime Text is that it allows you to totally customize its appearance by adding your own theme to it. This way, you’re really personalizing your coding experience. Another great thing about installing a theme to your text editor is that it can come with features and customizations that you wouldn’t normally get with an out of the box install of Sublime Text. Themes can optimize file trees, fonts, colors, positioning of features, and functionalities. What follows is a list of 10 of the coolest free themes to use to customize your Sublime Text editor.
Night is a cool theme with a more subdued color scheme. Typically, Sublime Text default formatting colors are pretty bright, but Night’s are more dull.
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Material Theme comes with lots of options for customization. It’s easy to install and activate, and it comes with almost a dozen of color scheme options to apply to your editor.
3. Tech49
Tech49 is a funky theme that adds a lighter color scheme to your Sublime Text text editor. Comes loaded with lots of ways to customize the way you right your code.
4. Agila
Agila is a colorful, popular text editor with a lot of cool features, one of which is the abundance of spacing between the folders in the file tree for optimum legibility and ease of use.
5. Sunrise
The sunrise theme has a blue color scheme that adds a unique palette to your text editor. It’s based on the Seti_UI theme and is easy to both install and activate.
6. Nil
Nil gives you the option to add a little lightness to your Sublime Text editor. If you choose to apply the light theme to your editor, the background will go from standard black to a lighter cream color. Additionally, the font is different from the standard Sublime Text font, so this theme can be used to really switch things up.
7. Freesia
Freesia is a beautiful pink and purple theme that was no doubt inspired by the colors of the beautiful and delicate flower for which it was named.
8. Soda
Soda is another theme that gives you the option to add a lighter aesthetic to your text editor. This one will turn the background of your editor from black to white, and change the default color of text from white to black.
9. Autumn
The Autumn theme offers a unique perspective on the file tree, adding stylized bullet points next to the file names instead of file icons, which is pretty unique among this list of themes.
10. itg.flat
itg.flat is a theme designed for retina displays and inspired by flat design aesthetics. It’s a cool, sleek, and modern looking theme to apply to your text editor, and comes with two different color schemes, dark and light.