Darcula ACP Theme for phpBB

A dark theme for the phpBB Admin Control Panel, inspired by the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Darcula color scheme.

Features

• Full dark theme for the entire phpBB ACP
• Faithful Darcula color palette (#2B2B2B background, #A9B7C6 text, #CC7832 accents)
• Styled tabs, sidebar menu, tables, forms, buttons, alerts, pagination, and permissions interface
• Darcula-style syntax highlighting for code blocks
• Custom dark scrollbars (WebKit and Firefox)
• Responsive design support
• phpBB logo automatically adapted for dark background

Requirements

• phpBB >= 3.3.0
• PHP >= 7.4.0

Installation

1. Copy the avathar/darcula folder to ext/avathar/darcula in your phpBB installation
2. Go to ACP > Customise > Manage extensions
3. Find Darcula ACP Theme and click Enable

Building from SASS

The CSS is compiled from SCSS source files in styles/scss/.

cd ext/avathar/darcula/styles
npx sass scss/darcula.scss darcula.css --style=expanded --no-source-map

SCSS structure

File	Purpose
_variables.scss	All Darcula color tokens and design constants
_base.scss	HTML/body, links, headings, code
_layout.scss	Header, footer, main panel, sidebar, logo
_tabs.scss	Tab navigation
_menu.scss	Sidebar menu
_tables.scss	Tables, row striping, zebra tables
_forms.scss	Inputs, buttons, fieldsets, legends, labels
_alerts.scss	Success/error/warning boxes, popups, tooltips
_pagination.scss	Pagination controls
_permissions.scss	Permission interface
_syntax.scss	PHP syntax highlighting
_scrollbar.scss	Custom scrollbars

Color palette

Element	Color	Hex
Background	Dark charcoal	#2B2B2B
Panels	Tool window gray	#3C3F41
Text	Blue-gray	#A9B7C6
Headings	Annotation yellow	#FFC66D
Keywords / legends	Orange	#CC7832
Links	Number blue	#6897BB
Strings / success	Green	#6A8759
Error	Red	#FF6B68
Primary buttons	IntelliJ blue	#365880

License

GPL-2.0-only

Author

Andreas Vandenberghe (Sajaki) — avathar.be