Default color scheme burn my eyes a lot. And idea color setting to share?

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~/Library/Preferences/kicad/

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Hereā€™s pcbnew color scheme as config file contents

ColorPCBLayer_F.Cu=rgb(221, 47, 44)
ColorPCBLayer_In1.Cu=rgb(106, 34, 3)
ColorPCBLayer_In2.Cu=rgb(182, 138, 0)
ColorPCBLayer_In3.Cu=rgb(103, 15, 60)
ColorPCBLayer_In4.Cu=rgb(45, 49, 121)
ColorPCBLayer_In5.Cu=rgb(33, 140, 211)
ColorPCBLayer_In6.Cu=rgb(16, 93, 88)
ColorPCBLayer_B.Cu=rgb(134, 154, 0)
ColorPCBLayer_B.Adhes=rgb(0, 182, 88)
ColorPCBLayer_F.Adhes=rgb(101, 255, 130)
ColorPCBLayer_B.Paste=rgb(38, 162, 153)
ColorPCBLayer_F.Paste=rgb(134, 224, 217)
ColorPCBLayer_B.SilkS=rgb(132, 149, 151)
ColorPCBLayer_F.SilkS=rgb(239, 233, 214)
ColorPCBLayer_B.Mask=rgb(212, 51, 131)
ColorPCBLayer_F.Mask=rgb(230, 135, 181)
ColorPCBLayer_Dwgs.User=rgb(253, 247, 228)
ColorPCBLayer_Cmts.User=rgb(88, 111, 118)
ColorPCBLayer_Eco1.User=rgb(99, 73, 4)
ColorPCBLayer_Eco2.User=rgb(120, 15, 12)
ColorPCBLayer_Edge.Cuts=rgb(207, 238, 0)
ColorPCBLayer_Margin=rgb(63, 74, 0)
ColorPCBLayer_B.CrtYd=rgb(204, 74, 15)
ColorPCBLayer_F.CrtYd=rgb(241, 155, 119)
ColorPCBLayer_B.Fab=rgb(182, 138, 0)
ColorPCBLayer_F.Fab=rgb(255, 219, 101)
ColorTxtFrontEx=rgb(194, 194, 194)
ColorTxtBackEx=rgb(0, 0, 132)
ColorTxtInvisEx=rgb(132, 132, 132)
ColorAnchorEx=rgb(0, 0, 132)
ColorPadBackEx=rgb(0, 132, 0)
ColorPadFrontEx=rgb(132, 0, 0)
ColorViaThruEx=rgb(194, 194, 194)
ColorViaBBlindEx=rgb(132, 132, 0)
ColorViaMicroEx=rgb(0, 132, 132)
ColorNonPlatedEx=rgb(194, 194, 0)
ColorRatsEx=rgb(255, 255, 255)

I still want to tweak a couple things, but this will do for now. Probably will see about including it with KiCad itself when we finally have a way to load color schemes from files.

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@c4757p very big thx for the job. Her my wired color scheme in eeschemaā€¦ I will test your pcbnew scheme right now :slight_smile:

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@Zh4ng these also look good can u share the setting?

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Here is my color scheme for eeschema. Not all Attributes have new colors yet.

ColorWireEx=rgb(131, 148, 150)
ColorBusEx=rgb(0, 0, 132)
ColorConnEx=rgb(131, 148, 150)
ColorLLabelEx=rgb(133, 153, 0)
ColorHLabelEx=rgb(132, 132, 0)
ColorGLabelEx=rgb(132, 0, 0)
ColorPinNumEx=rgb(238, 232, 213)
ColorPinNameEx=rgb(0, 132, 132)
ColorFieldEx=rgb(64, 128, 128)
ColorReferenceEx=rgb(38, 139, 210)
ColorValueEx=rgb(203, 75, 22)
ColorNoteEx=rgb(110, 123, 131)
ColorBodyEx=rgb(238, 232, 213)
ColorBodyBgEx=rgb(7, 54, 66)
ColorNetNameEx=rgb(132, 132, 132)
ColorPinEx=rgb(238, 232, 213)
ColorSheetEx=rgb(132, 0, 132)
ColorSheetFileNameEx=rgb(132, 132, 0)
ColorSheetNameEx=rgb(0, 132, 132)
ColorSheetLabelEx=rgb(132, 132, 0)
ColorNoConnectEx=rgb(0, 0, 132)
ColorErcWEx=rgb(0, 132, 0)
ColorErcEEx=rgb(132, 0, 0)
ColorGridEx=rgb(88, 110, 117)
ColorBgCanvasEx=rgb(0, 43, 54)

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@Zh4ng and @c4757p thank you for your share setting.

Well guy Iā€™ve problem,on windows kicad 4.0.6 I canā€™t use format like this:
ColorBgCanvasEx=rgb(0, 43, 54) not work but ColorBgCanvasEx=Black or other like Gray 1, Gray2 ā€¦ is working.

When I use rgb(ā€¦) then it reset to White color or other itā€™s default. It just like this format not valid. Any solution?

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Itā€™s probably in the nightlies only (beta testing versions for non-developers) until v5 comes out. v4.xx versions are bugfixes without feature additions since v4 came out.

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Can confirm this. This is an upcoming feature that will be present in 5.0, and you can use it in development builds as well.

Usual disclaimer for development builds applies: theyā€™re for testing and preview only. Development builds contain features that arenā€™t finished yet. Theyā€™re buggy and may make demons fly out your nose. There is at least one known bug already with this very feature, in fact.

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I see Iā€™ll find some pc to test it anyway.
Meanwhile look forward to see this new theme-color setting feature :relaxed:

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I donā€™t want to highjack this thread, but in the nightlies is it also possible to change the attribute text colours along the bottom of the window?

By that I mean (in eeschema): Reference, Value, Component etc that show along the bottom of the application window whenever you select an item.

I use Ubuntu with a dark theme (that is, a dark GTK theme). This means that the window elements are dark, so the dark coloured text is difficult to read (see image).

I canā€™t find any way to change these colours, unfortunately the ā€œcolour schemeā€ settings donā€™t seem to have options for them. Any other places I could look?

Thanks.

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That is not possible, no.

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Okay thanks, Iā€™ll add a feature request.

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Sorry but i am blind :confused: Where can i change the color of the frame in eeschema and pcbnew or whatā€™s the value in the configs?

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thx Zh4ng

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Oddly, that one actually isnā€™t configurable at the moment, I donā€™t thinkā€¦

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Sad :cry: I will have to way until it is configurableā€¦ Thx

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So I was wondering whether there is any inclination from the developers for a theme selector in the colour section for eeschema? Iā€™m not adverse to editing text files, but if there are useful profiles of colours already tested by people, it would be nice to have a couple of sensible themes to choose from. I know the colour picker gives infinite choice to people, but it might be nice to just choose a theme that someone else has already spent the time playing with to get the many colours correct.

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Not currently, but might show up in the future. If you look here https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1670669, youā€™ll see a newly active dev is planning on working on it.

EDIT: More helpful this time: For now you can copy/paste colors someone else makes into your .config/kicad/{eeschema,pcbnew} files. Copy this (https://pastebin.com/5xjaNVPn) over the same settings in the eeschema file and this (https://pastebin.com/uPU4j4tA) into pcbnew for a gruvbox-based scheme.

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how can i change the UI from the white into the black theme in windows and the color schema ? Like Justyn shows in the picture in the post of 18.Mar

Or on a raspbian jessy linux?
I searched for the ~/.config/kicad folder, but there is no folder named kicadā€¦

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FYI, Iā€™m still planning on a color themes feature but it didnā€™t make it into 5.0 feature freeze. Follow this issue if youā€™re interested:

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I created a repo to share color schemes and to have some general overview over them: https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-color-schemes

For the moment, it only contains the KiCad default scheme, as well as some initial version of http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized and a simple black/white theme.

You are welcome to improve my interpretation of solarized, as well as to share your own color schemes.

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