diff --git a/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/java/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/FlatThemeEditorPane.java b/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/java/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/FlatThemeEditorPane.java
index 99387bb2..b201452f 100644
--- a/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/java/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/FlatThemeEditorPane.java
+++ b/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/java/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/FlatThemeEditorPane.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import javax.swing.JPanel;
 import org.fife.ui.rsyntaxtextarea.AbstractTokenMakerFactory;
 import org.fife.ui.rsyntaxtextarea.FileLocation;
+import org.fife.ui.rsyntaxtextarea.Theme;
 import org.fife.ui.rsyntaxtextarea.TokenMakerFactory;
 import org.fife.ui.rtextarea.RTextScrollPane;
 import com.formdev.flatlaf.util.UIScale;
@@ -51,6 +52,14 @@ class FlatThemeEditorPane
 		textArea = new FlatSyntaxTextArea();
 		textArea.setSyntaxEditingStyle( FLATLAF_STYLE );
 
+		// theme
+		try {
+			Theme theme = Theme.load( getClass().getResourceAsStream( "light.xml" ) );
+			theme.apply( textArea );
+		} catch( IOException ex ) {
+			ex.printStackTrace();
+		}
+
 		// create scroll pane
 		scrollPane = new RTextScrollPane( textArea );
 		scrollPane.setLineNumbersEnabled( true );
diff --git a/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/resources/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/light.xml b/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/resources/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/light.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9b566345
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flatlaf-theme-editor/src/main/resources/com/formdev/flatlaf/themeeditor/light.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE RSyntaxTheme SYSTEM "theme.dtd">
+
+<!--
+	FlatLaf Light theme.
+	See theme.dtd and org.fife.ui.rsyntaxtextarea.Theme for more information.
+-->
+<RSyntaxTheme version="1.0">
+
+   <!-- Omitting baseFont will use a system-appropriate monospaced. -->
+   <baseFont size="12"/>
+   
+   <!--  General editor colors. -->
+   <background color="ffffff"/>
+   <caret color="000000"/>
+   <selection fg="default" useFG="false" bg="A6D2FF"/>
+   <currentLineHighlight color="FCFAED" fade="false"/>
+   <marginLine fg="b0b4b9"/>
+   <markAllHighlight color="ffc800"/>
+   <markOccurrencesHighlight color="d4d4d4" border="false"/>
+   <matchedBracket fg="000080" bg="eaeaff" highlightBoth="false" animate="true"/>
+   <hyperlinks fg="0000ff"/>
+   <secondaryLanguages>
+      <language index="1" bg="fff0cc"/>
+      <language index="2" bg="dafeda"/>
+      <language index="3" bg="ffe0f0"/>
+   </secondaryLanguages>
+   
+   <!-- Gutter styling. -->
+   <gutterBorder color="dddddd"/>
+   <lineNumbers fg="787878"/>
+   <foldIndicator fg="808080" iconBg="ffffff"/>
+   <iconRowHeader activeLineRange="3399ff"/>
+   
+   <!-- Syntax tokens. -->
+   <tokenStyles>
+      <style token="IDENTIFIER" fg="000000"/>
+      <style token="RESERVED_WORD" fg="871094"/>
+      <style token="RESERVED_WORD_2" fg="0000ff"/>
+      <style token="ANNOTATION" fg="808080"/>
+      <style token="COMMENT_DOCUMENTATION" fg="a40000" italic="true"/>
+      <style token="COMMENT_EOL" fg="8C8C8C" italic="true"/>
+      <style token="COMMENT_MULTILINE" fg="8C8C8C" italic="true"/>
+      <style token="COMMENT_KEYWORD" fg="ff9900"/>
+      <style token="COMMENT_MARKUP" fg="808080"/>
+      <style token="DATA_TYPE" fg="8C8C8C"/>
+      <style token="FUNCTION" fg="871094"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_BOOLEAN" fg="871094"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_NUMBER_DECIMAL_INT" fg="1750EB"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_NUMBER_FLOAT" fg="1750EB"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_NUMBER_HEXADECIMAL" fg="1750EB" bg="f2f2f2"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_STRING_DOUBLE_QUOTE" fg="008000"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_CHAR" fg="DC009C"/>
+      <style token="LITERAL_BACKQUOTE" fg="DC009C"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_TAG_DELIMITER" fg="ff0000"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_TAG_NAME" fg="0000ff"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_TAG_ATTRIBUTE" fg="3f7f7f"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_TAG_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE" fg="DC009C"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_COMMENT" fg="006000" italic="true"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_DTD" fg="ad8000"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION" fg="808080"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_CDATA" fg="cc6600"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_CDATA_DELIMITER" fg="008080"/>
+      <style token="MARKUP_ENTITY_REFERENCE" fg="008000"/>
+      <style token="OPERATOR" fg="000000"/>
+      <style token="PREPROCESSOR" fg="808080"/>
+      <style token="REGEX" fg="008040"/>
+      <style token="SEPARATOR" fg="ff0000"/>
+      <style token="VARIABLE" fg="000000" bg="EDFCED"/>
+      <style token="WHITESPACE" fg="000000"/>
+      
+      <style token="ERROR_IDENTIFIER" fg="000000" bg="ffcccc"/>
+      <style token="ERROR_NUMBER_FORMAT" fg="000000" bg="ffcccc"/>
+      <style token="ERROR_STRING_DOUBLE" fg="000000" bg="ffcccc"/>
+      <style token="ERROR_CHAR" fg="000000" bg="ffcccc"/>
+   </tokenStyles>
+
+</RSyntaxTheme>