How-to

Themes

Five shipped palettes and one you build yourself. The theme follows your account, unlike almost everything else about how the graph looks.

Pick one

Account menu → Theme.

Theme
Dark	The default. What everything else is tuned against.
Light	Off-white ground, warm parchment panels.
Synthwave	Deep violet, electric accents.
Shipwreck	Sea greens over a dark teal ground.
Mountain Majesty	Plum and gold.
Custom	Yours. Seeded from a shipped theme, so you edit rather than begin.

The theme applies everywhere — graph, panels, library, cards, and these documentation pages. A docs section that ignored your palette would be the one surface that does.

Build your own

Choosing Custom opens the fields, seeded from whichever shipped theme you start from — so nothing is ever a blank canvas. Change what bothers you and leave the rest.

You are setting a small number of roles, not styling components:

Text, Background, Panels — the three that carry most of the screen.
Accent— the app's active colour.
Link, Danger, Warning, and Warning text — statuses, where warning text is separated from the warning tint because a colour that works as a background rarely works as small type on one.
Node text — see below.

Node text is not panel text

The most useful field, and the least obvious. Node labels sit on coloured nodes, not on the page background — so the value that reads perfectly in a panel is routinely the wrong one on the canvas, where it is competing with ten group colours instead of one flat ground.

If a palette you like leaves the graph hard to read, this is almost always the field to change, and changing it costs you nothing elsewhere.

Save and name it

Custom palettes are saved to your account, and you can keep several by name — one for daylight, one for the evening, one for screenshots.

Worth stating because the neighbouring behaviour is the opposite: your palette follows you to another browser, and your hand-arranged graph layout does not. My graph rearranged itself explains why those two are stored differently.

Themes and group colours are different things

A theme sets the room. Group colours are the content, and they belong to a lens rather than to your account — so they look the same to you and to anyone you share with, whatever theme either of you is using.

One rule crosses over: grey is not available as a group or family colour, and neither is anything washed out enough to read as grey. Grey means draft, and it can only mean that if it never means anything else — so a hand-picked slate is refused while a dusty rose passes. Groups and families.

Group colours are not constrained by your theme, which means a palette chosen against a dark ground can be hard to read on a light one. If you switch themes and a lens suddenly looks muddy, its group colours are the thing to revisit — not the theme.