The Theme of the Day

This weeks build of Water, our Windows IDE for Elements adds an exciting new visual feature that many of you have been asking for for a long time: themes!

On the Fire side, we have had support for light mode and dark mode for a while, including dark (and light) editor color themes that force the IDE into dark (or light) mode, as well as the default theme which adjusts with the system.

Folks on Windows, using Water, have been stuck using only the light editor themes, because the rest of the IDE was not made to go along with (or look good) in dark. No more!

First, there's now the Black theme. Same basic colors as White, but the entire IDE is in dark mode, for the nightowls:

If you don't like it quite as dark, there's also Dark Gray. It's very simialar to the existing Light Gray editor theme, except the rest of the IDE gets themed – well – dark, rather than staying white:

For a bit of nostalgia, check out the the Turbo Pascal 2 theme takes you back to the 80s, with a dark IDE and, gray and yellow text on pitch-black. If I could stand to work in dark mode myself, this one would be my go-to:

We've also added a Monokai-inspired theme, for those of you who are more down to earth(-tone colors), or used to the color theme from other editors or IDEs.

Finally, the entire IDE also gets a retheming for the existing Pink Dream theme we introduced a few months back:

Each theme expands thruout the entirety of the IDE, including secondary windows such as the Preferences sheet here:

Themes are available in Elements .3041 today. As always, this build is a free update for all active subscribers. Get your copy now!