Appearance
Customise how CDE looks, color scheme, theme, and fonts for the UI, code blocks, and terminal.
Appearance customises how CDE looks, manage it from Settings → Application → Appearance.
Theme
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Color scheme | Whether CDE follows the system, or is forced to light or dark |
| Theme | The specific theme CDE renders (for example Dark, Light, Dark Modern, GitHub Dark, Obsidian Dark, Sky) |
Color scheme and Theme are separate settings: color scheme picks light vs dark at a high level, theme picks the exact palette within that. Several shortcuts cycle these directly, see Shortcuts.
Fonts
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| UI Font | The font used throughout the interface |
| Code Font | The font used in code blocks |
| Terminal Font | The font used in the integrated terminal |
Each font can be set independently, for example running a monospace font (like Berkeley Mono) in the terminal and code blocks while keeping a different UI font for everything else.
Next steps
- Shortcuts: rebind the keys that cycle theme and color scheme
- General: the rest of CDE's application preferences
- Settings overview: the full settings map