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Built-in themes

A theme sets the colours of Switchboard: the app, the code blocks and diffs, and the terminal, for light and dark mode. Switchboard comes with six themes, and you can import your own.

Settings open on Theme: the Appearance control, then a grid of theme cards, each with a light and a dark preview, its name and author, and a dashed card to drop a theme file onSettings open on Theme: the Appearance control, then a grid of theme cards, each with a light and a dark preview, its name and author, and a dashed card to drop a theme file on

Open it

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  • Press Command, CommaControl, Comma (or click the gear at the bottom of the sidebar) and choose Theme.
  • In the command palette (Command, K or Command, Shift, PControl, K or Control, Shift, P), run Theme: <name> to switch to a theme, or Appearance: Match System, Appearance: Light or Appearance: Dark to change the mode. The palette only lists the choices you aren’t using now.

Choose light or dark

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Appearance at the top of Settings → Theme has three choices:

  • Match System (the default): follows macOSWindows, so Switchboard turns dark when your system does.
  • Light
  • Dark

The terminal panel is always dark, in light mode too.

Pick a theme

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Click a theme card to use it. It applies at once, and a message in the corner says “Switched to <name>” with Undo, which takes you back to the theme you had.

Each card shows the theme in light and dark mode, its name, and who made it, with built in or imported. The theme in use has a ring in its own accent colour and a check mark.

Theme Light mode Dark mode
Demo Time (the default) Demo Time Light Demo Time Dark
Catppuccin Latte Mocha
Claude Claude Light Claude Dark
Nord uses Demo Time Nord
Solarized Solarized Light Solarized Dark
The unnamed uses Demo Time The unnamed
The main window in the Catppuccin theme: the sidebar, a conversation and the Changes panel in Catppuccin's coloursThe main window in the Catppuccin theme: the sidebar, a conversation and the Changes panel in Catppuccin's colours

More for a theme

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Each card has a ⋯ button (or right-click the card, or press Shift, F10Shift, F10):

  • Export… saves the theme as a .json file. Exporting Demo Time gives you every colour, a good start for a theme of your own.
  • Duplicate adds an editable copy to your themes.
  • Show file and Remove are only there for themes you imported. Built-in themes can’t be removed.

See Custom themes for importing, exporting and editing theme files.

Settings

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Everything on this page is in Settings → Theme. Your theme and appearance are part of the preferences you can back up.