How to change background and text colors in Sublime Text 3

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My questions are    How do I change the overall colors  background and font   How do I change the colors based on the file type that is open    Do I need to learn how to create a whole theme   I read this answer -- Sublime 2 -changing background color based on file type  -- for Sublime 2  but I m using Sublime 3  currently in beta   and there is no  Color Scheme - Default  in the Package folder

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This question -- Why do Sublime Text 3 Themes not affect the sidebar? -- helped me out.

The steps I followed:

Preferences
Browse Packages...
Go into the User folder (equivalent to going to %AppData%\Sublime Text 3\Packages\User)
Make a new text file in this folder called Default.sublime-theme
Add JSON styles here -- for a template, check out https://gist.github.com/MrDrews/5434948

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To view Theme files for ST3  install PackageResourceViewer via PackageControl   Then  you can use the Ctrl   Shift   P  gt  gt  PackageResourceViewer  Open Resource to view theme files   To edit a specific background color  you need to create a new file in your user packages folder Packages User SublimeLinter with the same name as the theme currently applied to your sublime text file   However  if your theme is a 3rd party theme package installed via package control  you can edit the hex value in that file directly  under background  For example      lt dict gt     lt dict gt       lt key gt background lt  key gt       lt string gt  073642 lt  string gt     lt  dict gt   lt  dict gt    Otherwise  if you are trying to modify a native sublime theme  add the following to the new file you create  named the same as the native theme  such as Monokai sublime-color-scheme  with your color choice         globals              background    rgb 5 5 5           Then  you can open the file you wish the syntax   color to be applied to and then go to Syntax-Specific settings  under Preferences  and add the path of the file to the syntax specific settings file like so            color scheme    Packages User SublimeLinter Monokai sublime-color-scheme      Note that if you have installed a theme via package control  it probably has the  tmTheme file extension   If you are wanting to edit the background color of the sidebar to be darker  go to Preferences  gt  Theme  gt  Adaptive sublime-theme  This my answer based on my personal experience and info gleaned from the accepted answer on this page  if you d like more information

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I had the same issue  Sublime3 no longer shows all of the installed packages when you choose Show Packages from the Preferences Menu   To customise a colour scheme do the following  UNIX     Locate your SublimeText packages directory under the directory which SublimeText is installed in  in my setup this was  opt sublime Packages  Open  Color Scheme - Default sublime-package  Choose the colour scheme which is closest to your requirements and copy it From Sublime Text choose Preferences - Browse Packages - User Paste the colour scheme you copied earlier here and rename it  It should now show up on your  Preferences - Color Scheme  menu under  User  Follow the instructions at the link you previously mentioned to make the changes you require  Sublime 2 -changing background color based on file type     --- EDIT ---  For Mac OS X the themes are stored in zipped files so although the preferences file shows them as being in Packages Color Scheme - Default  they don t appear in that directory unless you extract them     They can be extracted using the Package Resource Viewer  See this answer for how to install and use the Package Resource Viewer   Search for Color Scheme in the Package Extractor  should give options for Color Scheme Default and Color Scheme legacy  Extract the one you want  It will now be available at users UserName Library Application Support Sublime Text 3 Packages Color Scheme - Default  or Legacy  Make a copy of the scheme you want to modify  edit as needed and save it Add or change the line in user preferences which points to the color scheme   for example   color scheme    Packages Color Scheme - Legacy myTheme tmTheme

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For How do I change the overall colors  background and font    For MAC   goto Sublime text -  Preferences -  color scheme

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Steps I followed for an overall dark theme including file browser    Goto Preferences- Theme    Choose Adaptive sublime-theme

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For your own theme package find and edit it  Path  Preferences - gt  Browse Packages - gt  Theme - default  lt dict gt       lt key gt settings lt  key gt       lt dict gt           lt key gt background lt  key gt           lt string gt  edf2f6 lt  string gt       lt  dict gt   lt  dict gt

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Go to the preferences Click on color scheme Choose your color scheme I chose plastic  for my case

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