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Workspace styling and themes

The Workspace Style pill in the top bar opens the theme palette: pick a themed background, set the accent color, tune glass opacity and blur, and switch light/dark. Styles are per-workspace — your focus workspace can look nothing like your streaming one — and per-pane styling (a window’s gear menu) is layered on top, independently.

  1. Click Workspace Style (top right) — or just say what you want: change theme to neon rift.
  2. Pick a background theme; the accent color and overlay update to match. Choose an accent deliberately and it is pinned — changing the wallpaper later won’t quietly revert it.
  3. Fine controls live in Settings → Style: Glass opacity, Flat glass (renders windows without the backdrop blur — the tint stays; turn it on if you see a shaded vertical band across glassy windows on your GPU), Accent color, Compact density, Startup Sound.

Accent color opens a picker with fourteen named accents — ten of them the colors the wallpaper themes already pair themselves with, so the two lists can’t drift apart — each swatch previewing its own shades. Custom adds a hue wheel, a lightness slider and a hex field, with a live preview of a chip and its hover state.

The whole accent-colored surface follows your choice: borders, hover states, chip text, the scrollbar thumb and text selection, not just the buttons. Previously about half of it was hard-coded orange, so a purple accent still gave you orange hover states.

The picker shows a contrast reading for text drawn on the accent. It warns rather than blocks — an accent that never carries text is a legitimate choice, so it tells you and lets you decide. 4. Appearance: say light or dark, or set it in the style palette.

Settings → Style → Typography controls how the whole HQ reads:

  • Font sizeSmall · Regular · Large · Extra large. One click scales text across every window, tool and display together (spacing scales with it, so layouts stay intact at every step). The choice persists across restarts and applies to all workspaces.
  • Font — one picker, twenty-three faces in three groups: Monospace (Cascadia Code — the default — Consolas, Courier New), ten sans-serif (Segoe UI Variable, Segoe UI, Bahnschrift, Calibri, Candara, Corbel, Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Arial) and ten serif (Georgia, Cambria, Constantia, Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Sitka Text, Times New Roman, Garamond, Bookman Old Style, Century Schoolbook). Every choice ships with fallbacks, so it renders clean even if a face isn’t installed. A live preview line shows the pick before you commit to it.

Two things stay put on purpose: terminals and the code editor keep their monospace font no matter the interface font (code needs its columns), and the font choice rides the app — not the workspace — so your HQ reads the same everywhere.

Beyond the built-in themes, add-on video themes can be installed locally (Settings → Assets manages them). Add-ons live in your app data, not in the app itself — updates never remove them.

change theme to <name> · light / dark · rename ninja to Atlas (windows are stylable AND renamable).

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between workspace style and pane style?

Workspace style sets the whole canvas — background theme, accent color, glass effect, light/dark. Pane style customizes one window (its own palette and glow) from that window's gear menu. They're deliberately independent.

How do I make all the text bigger?

Settings → Style → Typography → Font size: Small, Regular, Large, or Extra large. It scales every window and tool together, so nothing breaks or overlaps at any step.

Can I change the app's font?

Yes — Settings → Style → Typography → Font. Twenty-three choices: the monospace natives plus ten sans-serif and ten serif faces, all with safe fallbacks so every pick renders clean. Terminals and the code editor deliberately stay monospace.