If you have any questions or input, please leave a comment below. Your dark theme should now be active! Click to enlarge If you currently have Inkscape running, close out of it and start it up again. If you’d like to use those icon designs for the standard theme Inkscape comes with, you can download a copy for the light theme here.

Now replace it with the icons.svg file from the Dark-Theme-92 zip. Look for a file titled icons.svg and delete it. Now head over to Local Disc (C:) > Program Files > Inkscape > Share > Icons UPDATE : Many of you have remarked that you’d like the work space (the white canvas) to be dark as well, so I’ve created another brief tutorial for how to do so here. Make sure to copy and paste the folder titled “ui” into that same directory as well. Once you’re in that folder, simply delete the file titled “gtkrc” and replace it with the gtkrc file from the “New Files” sub folder in the Dark-Theme-92 zip. Go to Local Disc (C:) > Program Files > Inkscape > Share > Themes > MS-Windows > gtk-2.0 Those are the default theme files that Inkscape comes with in case you’d like to revert back at any point in the future.

Please note that in the zipped folder there’s a sub folder titled “Original Files”. This was originally shared on Gnome-Look by Abdullah Ragb, who was kind of enough to let me make a modified version for Windows users, using my own icon theme. The first step is to download the dark theme package here: Dark-theme-92.zip Here is how the dark theme looks with updated icons… A before and after of the dark theme Check the video tutorial below, or proceed to the written instructions. Inkscape versions 0.92.4 and 0.92.5 do not come with a dark theme built in, so we’ll have to install it manually. There’s also other themes to choose from, as well and some redesigned icons, so be sure to browse through the library to find what you like best! Inkscape Dark Theme for Version 0.92.4 and 0.92.5 Here’s how the new dark theme looks in Inkscape version 1.0… Click to enlarge

With the Preferences menu opened, navigate to Interface > Theme and check the box that reads “ Use dark theme“.

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