Themes and community themes

Choose a theme

1. Open Settings (⌘,) → Appearance.
2. Click a tile under Theme: Ink, Paper or Studio.
3. Under Appearance, choose Light, Dark or System. A theme that has only one appearance says “light only” or “dark only”.

Interface font and, under Editor, Editor font, Text size and Column width are here too. The font pickers search every font on your Mac, or keep the theme’s.

Community themes

Settings → Appearance → Community opens a shelf of themes made by other people. It has Browse, Installed and Featured, with search and sort. The 11 Phycat palettes are on it.

• Install adds a theme to your themes folder. Apply chooses it. The trash button moves it to the Trash.
• Each theme shows its author, version, licence and last update, taken from its repository. There are no ratings or download counts.
• Every theme is reviewed by a person and ships inside InkDo, so the shelf works offline and nothing is downloaded.

Use your own theme

A theme is a theme.css file in a folder named after it.

1. Compress the folder in Finder.
2. In Settings → Appearance, press Import .zip…. The theme is chosen at once.
3. If InkDo left anything out, Settings says what, under the theme tiles. Fix it and import again. The same name replaces the theme.

Show themes folder opens where installed and imported themes live. Imported themes appear on Installed, marked Local.

A theme can set colours and the writing surface. It can’t load fonts or images, change margins or line heights, or reach outside the editor.

Share a theme

In Community, choose Submit a theme. Give the public GitHub repository (it needs a theme.css, a README with a screenshot and a licence), the name, the version and a sentence or two. Open on GitHub opens a prefilled form; press Create there. InkDo itself sends nothing. A maintainer reviews it: it must import with nothing left out, meet 4.5:1 contrast on text and accent colours, and be under 200 KB. An accepted theme ships in the next update, credited to you.