Change font & background color in ipython notebook

Question

How to change the C:\\Python32\\Lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\frontend\\html\\notebook\\static\\css file in the iPython notebook directory without destroying the source file?

Answer 1

You can use a file named custom.css in <ipython profile dir>/profile_<profilename>/static/custom/custom.css that will be applied to your notebook. Browser caching might be aggressive, you might need to force refresh a few times.

Coloring of words is done through codemirror, which supports theming. Changing this will be slightly more involved and might require some JavaScript injection in <ipython profile dir>/profile_<profilename>/static/custom/custom.js.

I wrote a more detailed, but outdated, explanation which can probably be adapted to new versions.