I never understood the big deal about customizing the colors of your IDE and I particularly never understood the black and white craze … until recently
I installed the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor form the Tools / Extensions and Updates …

and realized that the Dark theme (which came with the extension) instantly helped me see better and was much easier on the eyes (I always though that argument was BS … ignorance is a bliss right …).
At the same time I was experimenting with Sublime Text 2 and after switching to its Sunburst theme I realized that VS 2012 needed an even darker theme for me to call it “home”.
So here are few screens of how the final theme (Dark_Akrion) looks like:

Fell free to download: Dark_Akrion
How to Install?
Step 1: Download the theme from the link above
Step 2: Download the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor (as shown on the first image in the article)
Step 3: Go to Tools / Customize Colors:

Step 4: Click on Import Theme:

Step 5: Enjoy
In your signature, I don’t think you mean “geographically inclined.” Someone who is geographically inclined would probably *not* mistake Bulgaria for Siberia ; )
I missed the quotation marks …
OMG, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Been trying to figure out what colors to hit. Couldn’t find the text background color.
Why has no one made a theme for VS 2010?