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Preview bundled RStudio themes

Source: vignettes/articles/showcase.qmd

This article previews bundled RStudio themes from rstudiothemes.

Install the bundled themes with:

rstudiothemes::install_rstudiothemes()

The bundled themes are also distributed in a single .zip file: dist/rstudiothemes.zip. Unzip the file and install the themes using the RStudio IDE interface.

In RStudio, choose Tools > Global Options > Appearance > Add.

RStudio Appearance options with an editor theme list and a syntax-highlighted code preview. The Add button below the list opens a file picker to install a theme.
Figure 1: RStudio Add Theme interface.

Click an image to enlarge it.

RStudio screenshot with the Andromeda theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the ayu Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the ayu Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Barbie Theme theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Bluloco Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Catppuccin Latte theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Catppuccin Mocha theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the cobalt2 theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the CRAN theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Dracula2025 theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the GitHub Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the GitHub Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the JellyFish Theme theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Matcha theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Matrix theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Night Owl theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Night Owl Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Nord theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the OKSolar Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the OKSolar Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the OKSolar Sky theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the One Dark Pro theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Overflow Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Overflow Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Panda Syntax theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Positron Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Positron Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Selenized Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Selenized Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Skeletor Syntax theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the SynthWave 84 theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Tokyo Night theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Tokyo Night Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Tokyo Night Storm theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the VSCode Dark theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the VSCode Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Winter is Coming Dark Blue theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
RStudio screenshot with the Winter is Coming Light theme applied to the editor, console and surrounding panes. R code illustrates syntax highlighting in the editor.
About the screenshots

Previews may look different on your device. The screenshots use this setup:

RStudio version

RStudio 2026.08.1+195 "Yellow Yarrow"

Release (8d474bc4cfad0e317095cd171e8ef44db6887068, 2026-08-14) for windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
RStudio/2026.08.1+195
Chrome/148.0.7778.280
Electron/42.7.1
Safari/537.36,
Quarto 1.10.18 (C:/Users/diego/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.exe)

Code font

Fira Code: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Code.

RStudio Code options on the Display tab. Line numbers, whitespace characters and R function call highlighting are enabled, with the margin at column 80 and gray indentation guides.
Figure 2: RStudio options used for screenshots.