Colour Theme per project.
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hi, i have many projects opened at the same time and in order to keep the confusion down, i want separate colors,themes for each project.
for example, if i have a branch project open, the background for java files will be greenish while the trunk project will have white backgrounds.
i've tried to change this but ended up changing all intellij instances.
is this possible?
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Julien Bernard Looks like it is a known problem. Please see https://github.com/nowtilous/Project-Color/issues/17
yon It also stopped working for PhpStorm 2022.3, I've added comment with log to issue on GitHub.
If anyone's still looking for this — I built per-project accent color overrides into my theme plugin, Ayu Islands. You pin a color to a project path, and it propagates through the entire UI: scrollbars, caret line, search highlights, bracket matches, glow borders, and third-party plugins like CodeGlance Pro.
It also supports per-language pins (e.g. Rust → rose, Python → gold) with automatic language detection. Priority chain: project override → language override → global accent.
The built-in IntelliJ project accent (2023.2+) only tints the title bar — this goes deeper.
Free theme with 30-day premium trial: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30373-ayu-islands