Studio Dark Theme

[chesse20 (ChesseThe FluffyWasp)]

WOW can’t wait to turn on this feature

[Brick_man]

Very useful, nice feature!

[Osyris]

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[Uglypoe (Poe)]

My eyes may finally heal.

PogChamp

[Architect_Build]

Did you guys turn off the lights in studio?!? It got dark all of a sudden?!

[Noble_Draconian]

I will mention however, we should have the ability to customize the colors of the theme in the future (soon hopefully?), similiar to what Visual Studio does.

(Or could we take an atom.io approach to themes? Here’s a thread on it : Can we take an Atom.io / BetterDiscord approach to studio’s theme abilities?)

[UnderMyWheel (Wheely)]

From me and my eyes:

[Cyanletics (Cyan)]

Finally! And it looks really nice too

[Snowskateer (Snow)]

YES YES YES

Will icon colours ever be changed in order to contrast the black background better?

[Korrokku (Kenny)]

I don’t like the blue much either.

[Extuls]

I’m happy to finally see a dark theme, though it feels a little… flat?

Light theme

Dark theme

I think the main cause of it is that the colors follow a somewhat inverted stance. By that, I mean where lighter shades are in the light theme, that’s where the darker shades are in the dark theme. I don’t think this is ideal, especially in the borders between widgets.

By using a lighter shade between widgets, it gives the illusion of widgets being pushed in, rather than hovering like in the light theme. This causes every part of the studio window to feel connected in the dark theme, whereas in the light theme it truly felt like each widget was its own section of the screen.

The effect the light theme gives is what I prefer, whereas I prefer the shades of the dark theme.

[devSparkle]

Give it a few hours, and this will be your most liked post.

All kidding aside (or not, we’ll see), thank you for this long-awaited feature!

[RiftTalon]

I am so glad that we have this. The light theme hurts my eyes.

[EchoReaper]

There are a few edge cases where I get blinded by leftover white:

When closing a game, the empty viewport canvas that is displayed for a fraction of a second is white:

When opening Studio, the canvas flashes white for a fraction of a second, before the login screen appears:

anonymous

Aside from those two, there are also some cases where the light theme bleeds through:

My command bar somehow turned white. I think it may have been caused by remotely logging into my PC, which updated the computer’s color scheme?

The default background color for the toolbox is light, and the search icon has a white background:

[Extuls]

Also, API for plugins? You took the words right out of my mouth

Assuming this excitement is for the ability to modify the color scheme via plugin, I wouldn’t put your hopes too high. It’s been (sort of) made clear they plan for there to be more themes in one way or another, however the API mention here is more likely what @Maximum_ADHD mentioned in a post somewhere else, which is API for plugins to get info about the current color scheme. He could give more details than I could.

[Ben_Est]

eye fatigue

while true do
    if eye fatigue < light theme then
        produce()
    end
end

Really though, thanks for this!

[EchoReaper]

You can use settings().Studio["UI Theme"] to get and set the UI theme.

[Maximum_ADHD]

Don’t do that, we are going to break it in the future.

[Extuls]

I was referring to this post by Clonetrooper:

See What's Coming in 2018: This Year's Developer Roadmap

Studio’s dark theme is coming soon tm

For anyone looking to update their plugin widgets to support the dark theme, you will be able to TEMPORARILY access the value of the studio theme via:

settings().Studio["UI Theme"]

There will be a new Studio only Enum called UITheme:

Enum UITheme
	EnumItem UITheme.Light : 0
	EnumItem UITheme.Dark : 1

PLEASE NOTE: We intend to break this method in the future in favor of a proper “Studio Color Scheme” API. Be prepared for this to stop working in the future.

[DerpyMcDerpell]

Literally the best update ever.