How to change background color in the Notepad text editor

Question

Does anyone know how to change the background color  font size  and other appearance-based settings in Notepad    The default is white but I am trying to change it into a dark gray or something else

User · Accepted Answer

Go to Settings -  Style Configurator  Select Theme  Choose whichever you like best  the top two are easiest to read by most people s preference

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You may need admin access to do it on your system     Create a folder  themes  in the Notepad   installation folder i e  C  Program Files  x86  Notepad   Search or visit pages like http   timtrott co uk notepad-colour-schemes  to download the favourite theme  It will be an SML file     Note  I prefer Neon any day   Download the themes from the site and drag them to the themes folder     Note  I was unable to copy-paste or create new files in  themes  folder so I used drag and that worked   Follow the steps provided by  triforceofcourage to select the new theme in Notepad   preferences

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Notepad   changed in the past couple of years  and it requires a few extra steps to set up a dark theme  The answer by Amit-IO is good  but the example theme that is needed has stopped being maintained  The DraculaTheme is active  Just download the XML and put it in a themes folder  You may need Admin access in Windows  C  Users YOUR USER AppData Roaming Notepad   themes https   draculatheme com notepad-plus-plus

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There seems to have been an update some time in the past 3 years which changes the location of where to place themes in order to get them working   Previosuly  themes were located in the Notepad   installation folder   Now they are located in AppData   C  Users YOUR USER AppData Roaming Notepad   themes   My answer is an update to  Amit-IO s answer about manually copying the themes    In Explorer  browse to   AppData  Notepad    If a folder called themes does not exist  create it  Download your favourite theme from wherever  see Amit-IO s answer for a good list  and save it to  AppData  Notepad   themes  Restart Notepad   and then use Settings - gt  Style Configurator   The new theme s  will appear in the list

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If anyone wants to enable dark mode  you may follow the below steps  Open your Notepad    and select    Settings    on the menu bar  and choose    Style configurator     Select theme    Obsidian     you can choose other dark themes  Click on Save amp Colse

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