Scrivener 3 Themes (macOS)

lucadj · May 10, 2020, 8:30am

Very good, but in the Outline view text color of synopsis is dark and it is impossible to read it.

jazc98 · May 10, 2020, 9:47am

Ahh I see, thanks for bringing it to my attention. It’s not perfect, so feel free to change it up to whatever suits your needs

Silverdragon · May 11, 2020, 11:44pm

Inverted Solarized

Solarized is a popular theme, but does it really work for Scrivener? What with default text in light mode being hard-coded black, and Scrivener’s emphasis on background accenting (labels, style markup), I couldn’t achieve low-contrast main text yet have colourful, easily distinguished, readable background accents with the out-of-the-box Solarized theme.

Here’s my take on an “inside-out” Solarized theme for Scrivener. I use the medium grays, usually used for text, as my backgrounds. Dark mode text is the familiar cream of the Solarized light background; light mode text is of course Scrivener’s default black. The result is that I’m very close to the contrast Solarized is intended to present both in light and in dark modes. As a bonus, using the Solarized background colours as label and style backgrounds results in clear, readable text in both modes as well.

I’m including a Solarized palette (Solarized.clr) for the Apple colour picker. (When in the Colour picker, click on the gear icon and choose Import…) Not only does the palette have the usual Solarized 16-colour palette, I’ve included dark and light versions of the 8 accent colours as well.

Usage suggestions:

For backgrounds behind text, use the regular Solarized accent colours (Yellow, Red, etc.) to get proper contrast. This includes label colours used as backgrounds, backgrounds for styles, and backgrounds for comments.
For use in links, use the dark colour (Red01, etc.) for the Light theme, and the light colour (Red1, etc.) for the Dark theme.
For use in inline annotations, use either the dark (Red01) or light (Red1) colour variations, according to what works best for you, but using the base colour (Red) will remove almost all contrast with the background, and make your annotations hard to read.

Enjoy!
Inverted_Solarized.zip (19.7 KB)

ScrivTrex · May 13, 2020, 8:14am

I really like this theme! But, clicking on the link goes to a broken Dropbox link (file not available). Is this theme not available anymore? I can’t find it on google either. Thanks.

bernardo_vasconcelos · May 16, 2020, 12:10pm

Here it is:
https://github.com/bcdavasconcelos/Themes/tree/master/Scrivener

ScrivTrex · May 16, 2020, 2:20pm

Thank you my friend! But, I tried opening your Ayu.stheme file, but WinRAR fails to open it and says it’s an unknown format. I’m on a Windows 10 PC. I know this theme is for the Mac version of Scrivener 3, but what I want to do is copy some of the color settings from your theme to my own theme files for Scrivener 3 for Windows RC version. How do I open the .stheme zip file on a Windows 10 PC? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

EDIT: I tried just opening the Ayu.stheme file directly in Notepad++, but I got a bunch of random characters for the data elements in the XML structure within the file, like the following. What does that mean? This is what I’m seeing:

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bernardo_vasconcelos · May 18, 2020, 4:49pm

ScrivTrex:

bernardo vasconcelos:

Here it is:
https://github.com/bcdavasconcelos/Themes/tree/master/Scrivener

Thank you my friend! But, I tried opening your Ayu.stheme file, but WinRAR fails to open it and says it’s an unknown format. I’m on a Windows 10 PC. I know this theme is for the Mac version of Scrivener 3, but what I want to do is copy some of the color settings from your theme to my own theme files for Scrivener 3 for Windows RC version. How do I open the .stheme zip file on a Windows 10 PC? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

EDIT: I tried just opening the Ayu.stheme file directly in Notepad++, but I got a bunch of random characters for the data elements in the XML structure within the file, like the following. What does that mean? This is what I’m seeing:

<key>SCRBinderBackgroundColor</key> <data> YnBsaXN0MDDUAQIDBAUGBwpYJHZlcnNpb25ZJGFyY2hpdmVyVCR0b3BYJG9iamVjdHMS AAGGoF8QD05TS2V5ZWRBcmNoaXZlctEICVRyb290gAGmCwwXHR4lVSRudWxs1Q0ODxAR EhMUFRZcTlNDb21wb25lbnRzVU5TUkdCXE5TQ29sb3JTcGFjZV8QEk5TQ3VzdG9tQ29s b3JTcGFjZVYkY2xhc3NPEB0xIDAuOTk5OTg3OTAwMyAwLjk5OTk5MjE5MTggMU8QGzAu OTk5ODg5MDE2MiAxIDAuOTk5ODMwMjQ2ABABgAKABdMYERkaGxxVTlNJQ0NZTlNTcGFj ZUlEgAOABBAMTxECJAAAAiRhcHBsBAAAAG1udHJSR0IgWFlaIAfhAAcABwANABYAIGFj c3BBUFBMAAAAAEFQUEwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD21gABAAAAANMtYXBwbMoalYIl fxBNOJkT1dHqFYIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACmRlc2MAAAD8 AAAAZWNwcnQAAAFkAAAAI3d0cHQAAAGIAAAAFHJYWVoAAAGcAAAAFGdYWVoAAAGwAAAA FGJYWVoAAAHEAAAAFHJUUkMAAAHYAAAAIGNoYWQAAAH4AAAALGJUUkMAAAHYAAAAIGdU UkMAAAHYAAAAIGRlc2MAAAAAAAAAC0Rpc3BsYXkgUDMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAdGV4dAAAAABDb3B5cmlnaHQgQXBwbGUgSW5jLiwgMjAxNwAAWFla IAAAAAAAAPNRAAEAAAABFsxYWVogAAAAAAAAg98AAD2/////u1hZWiAAAAAAAABKvwAA sTcAAAq5WFlaIAAAAAAAACg4AAARCwAAyLlwYXJhAAAAAAADAAAAAmZmAADypwAADVkA ABPQAAAKW3NmMzIAAAAAAAEMQgAABd7///MmAAAHkwAA/ZD///ui///9owAAA9wAAMBu 0h8gISJaJGNsYXNzbmFtZVgkY2xhc3Nlc1xOU0NvbG9yU3BhY2WiIyRcTlNDb2xvclNw YWNlWE5TT2JqZWN00h8gJidXTlNDb2xvcqImJAAIABEAGgAkACkAMgA3AEkATABRAFMA WgBgAGsAeAB+AIsAoACnAMcA5QDnAOkA6wDyAPgBAgEEAQYBCAMwAzUDQANJA1YDWQNm A28DdAN8AAAAAAAAAgEAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA38= </data>.....

Let’s try again. See if this works and let me know
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w82k8lvl4xip89m/Themes.zip?dl=1

ScrivTrex · May 18, 2020, 5:01pm

Thanks for this, but it still displays the base64 code for the tag. It’s not displaying human readable RGB color values, for instance.

AmberV · May 18, 2020, 5:10pm

That’s not going to be feasible to do without a Mac (and then of course you might as well just use the front end in Scrivener), and even then, you’d probably need to be a developer, to some degree, to do anything useful with the data. For the sake of curiosity, the base64 decodes to a binary serialised object (which itself contains a paired Color and ColorSpace object). As with most object serialisations, they are pretty useless without the program that seralised them or the development environment at the least if it was produced from a common library object.

bernardo_vasconcelos · May 18, 2020, 9:36pm

I just added most of the colours I used to this github page: github.com/bcdavasconcelos/Them … /Scrivener

Hope this helps. If you need anything else, just let me know.

Bernardo

ScrivTrex · May 18, 2020, 9:51pm

Thanks. I am technically savvy, and I do have development experience. But, I think I’ll err on the side of caution and stick with only editing Windows Scrivener theme files.

Are these the only handful of colors used in the whole theme? What UI elements are ayu-mirage-2, ayu-mirage, and fondo referring to? Thanks.

Aaron_Hall · May 19, 2020, 8:38pm

ScrivTrex:

AmberV:

That’s not going to be feasible to do without a Mac (and then of course you might as well just use the front end in Scrivener), and even then, you’d probably need to be a developer, to some degree, to do anything useful with the data. For the sake of curiosity, the base64 decodes to a binary serialised object (which itself contains a paired Color and ColorSpace object). As with most object serialisations, they are pretty useless without the program that seralised them or the development environment at the least if it was produced from a common library object.

Thanks. I am technically savvy, and I do have development experience. But, I think I’ll err on the side of caution and stick with only editing Windows Scrivener theme files.

bernardo vasconcelos:

I just added most of the colours I used to this github page: github.com/bcdavasconcelos/Them … /Scrivener

Hope this helps. If you need anything else, just let me know.

Bernardo

Are these the only handful of colors used in the whole theme? What UI elements are ayu-mirage-2, ayu-mirage, and fondo referring to? Thanks.

If you have any luck with this please let me know! I’ve been playing about with some of the customization options in Scrivener to try and replicate a few of these themes for the Windows V3 RC version but haven’t has much luck (being colour blind probably doesn’t help!).

bernardo_vasconcelos · May 20, 2020, 8:08pm

I have not checked to be 100% sure, but probably.

I don’t understand the question.

maryportis · June 30, 2020, 4:46am

Hi all,

Amazing work from the respective creators so far. I’ve had some time on my hands and thought I would give it a go and upload some new themes for you all. Thoughts, opinions, complaints? Let me know
Download: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ycwz6xc242jyh0v/AAAdM0iaBRH6KSWH3ewWHOara?dl=0

Jasmine

Charcoal

Monokai Night

Catreina · July 18, 2020, 3:11am

Is there some problem with RC8 where it won’t load any themes? Windows themes show “*.sctheme” for theme loading, and whenever I try to load it, regardless of theme (if it is not bundled), the theme says “Scrivener failed loading a theme. Cannot find the theme configuration file.”

I have tried 15 different themes and this occurs on each of them.

xiamenese · July 18, 2020, 10:18am

See your cross-post in the Windows forum.

Mark

Altazor · July 19, 2020, 3:47pm

Awesome!

stevensko · September 27, 2020, 7:19pm

My understanding is that Mac themes do not work on Windows, Additionally, the appearance editor on windows beta is not complete yet. Is that correct? I’m trying to make an all black theme but the editor only allows me to change some of the colors.

defman · December 5, 2020, 6:04am

I downloaded and tested Scrivener 3 beta, I liked it. And figured out how to make dark mode, by clicking on the Dark Mode button in the Options/Manage, or Windows/Themes menu, it was that easy. Totally awesome. But I want black background, black skins, black everything, and only white, yellow, or bright green texts showing up easily.

I remembers Mellow Yellow I saw on L&L, only for Mac OS Scrivener. How to import it into the WIndows Scrivener v3?

Fiddling around, I figured out how, then I saved it as a .prefs file, just to have it safe and handy, just in case. Then I figured out I can export the .prefs file as a .scritheme file.

It’s MellowYellow theme, from this page: [url]https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-3-0-beta-release-candidate-10-download-links-change-list/38228/1]

I’ve been wracking my tired brain trying to reconstruct the steps I did that created these two files. I got distracted by so many themes and downloaded them before I realises that .stheme files are for Mac Scrivener, not Window Scrivener.

I’m wondering if I found MellowYellow.prefs by downloading it from here or from someone’s github link or such. If so, thank you for making the file available, much appreciated.

I also figured, why not let you all know about what I did, using prefs and then exporting them as .scrtheme files, that way, we can try lots of themes available for Windows Scriveners, though only v3, as these cannot be imported or use in older version of Windows 1.9. Sorry. I tried.

Anyways, here’s the two files I exported. Hopes it works for you, and you can modify them anyway you liked. I claimed no ownership over the files, okay. Also, disclaimer, I am not liable for any damages if these files messes up something. Back up first, then test, if you don’t like it, then just revert to default, then puts back what you liked, okay.

All I wanted was to make Scrivener as black as possible, with only white, or yellow, or green texts showing up.
That’s it, no worries.

I tried to import the new MellowYellow.prefs into my Windows Scrivener 1.9, but no go, still same as before. I realises it’ll only work because v3 beta is newer than the old v1.9 version.

I made another .prefs file, with the Source Sans Pro Black font for the texts in the Main Editor area, easier to read, I was trying to replicated the old green fonts on computer screens back in the 1980s that I’d seen. I like playing with fonts, find something that’s readable and not wear out my eyes, ha ha.

Here’s the place where to get these files, okay.
https://github.com/defman2020/ScrivenerYellowMellow

For what it’s worth, it’s all I did, fiddling around, and coming up with something workable that I could use.

Regards.

SeiferboyProductions · March 1, 2021, 10:14pm

I hope it’s okay to post in threads that are more than a month old. Lots of forums frown on that, so I’m not sure how it works here.

What I’ve been doing is changing the colors under Tools —> Options —> Appearance

After you get the desired colors, you can go to the Manage button on the bottom and Save Preference. It’ll ask you to save the preference somewhere. Once you do, you can go to Manage —> Load Preference

This will allow you to load the themes you create whenever you want. I have a folder called Scrivener Customs, where I save backgrounds for the Full Screen toggle, custom icons and the themes. Each of those have their own folders for easier navigation. The only issue I have is not knowing if the menu items can have their colors changed. If they can, I don’t know what they’re called under the Appearance options.