Installation & Activation

Get up and running with a few commands

This is a living document which means it is work in progress, not completed yet and can change at any time while the project is still in development major version zero 0.y.z!

Installation

Nord Xcode can be installed by downloading the latest Nord.xccolortheme file from the GitHub repository and place it into the ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes directory.

mkdir -p ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arcticicestudio/nord-xcode/develop/src/Nord.xccolortheme -o ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/Nord.xccolortheme

Latest Development State

To always use the latest development state of Nord Xcode, clone the repository and create a symbolic link of the Nord.xccolortheme file to ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/Nord.xccolortheme afterwards:

git clone https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-xcode
ln -sr "$PWD/src/Nord.xccolortheme" "$HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/Nord.xccolortheme"

Screenshot showing the GitHub repository web UI to download the project repository — The GitHub repository web UI to download the project repository.

Activation

To activate and use Nord Xcode as your default color theme…

…open File > Preferences
…switch to the Fonts & Colors tab
…select Nord from the list

Screenshot showing the Xcode preference to activate the Nord color theme — The Xcode preferences to activate the Nord color theme.