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Unused theme named color

Reports unused theme colors in IntelliJ theme files (*.theme.json).

Named colors are defined in the colors section of the theme file. A color is considered unused if it is not referenced in the ui section or gradient definitions within the same file.

See Exposing Theme Metadata for more information.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

UnusedIntelliJThemeNamedColor
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Plugin DevKit | Code

Inspection ID: UnusedIntelliJThemeNamedColor

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection UnusedIntelliJThemeNamedColor

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026