Is there a way to change Matlab colors to be easier on the eye?

Would like to change all backgrounds to be dark with lighter colored text. As there are too many colors to set in the editor preferences, something like UltraEdit's 'theme' feature would be great. Just select the desired 'theme" and all colors are changed.

Answer 1

[Shane Overington]

http://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/53862-matlab-schemer?s_tid=srchtitle

[Kuttler Smith]

This is great, but it doesn't change the color of the toolbars and scroll bars. Is there a way to change those too?

[Uzair Hussain]

Yes, it actually makes it worse with this not being done alongside...

[Jeffrey Chen]

Have you guys figured out how to change the toolbar colors?

[Artem Kushner]

The schemer selection is pretty meager for a project of MATLAB's size and yeah, the perpetually-white toolstrips are pretty irritating.

[jessupj]

anything yet on the toolbars/dividers/scrollbars/etc colors?

Answer 2

[Stephen Cobeldick]

To change the MATLAB editor / debugger colors:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/about-editor-debugger-preferences.html

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/color-settings.html

And you might be interested in this FEX submission:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/53862-matlab-schemer

It is also possible (although not officially supported) to display any color text in the command window:

http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/cprintf-display-formatted-color-text-in-command-window