# Appearance and settings (/en/docs/platform/dashboard/appearance)



Open **Settings** from the sidebar. It has eight tabs: **General**, **Visual**, **Interface**, **Profile**, **Security**, **Seasonal**, **Accessibility** and **Advanced**. Use the search box at the top to jump to any setting by name.

Account tabs are covered in [Account and security](/en/docs/platform/dashboard/account-security). This page covers the rest.

## General [#general]

* **Updates** — see [Updates and News](/en/docs/platform/dashboard/updates).
* **Language** — choose **English** or **Español**.

## Themes [#themes]

In **Settings › Visual › Themes**, pick one of eight themes.

| Group                     | Themes                                      |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Bright** — for daylight | Light, Ink, Rosé Pine Dawn                  |
| **Moody** — for low light | Ash, Dark, Void, Rosé Pine, Kanagawa Dragon |

To switch automatically, turn on **Match system settings**. Then choose a **Day** theme (used when your system is in light mode) and a **Night** theme (used in dark mode).

Under the themes you can also adjust:

* **Enable solarium glass effects** — a frosted, see-through look on menus, dialogs and panels.
* **Noise overlay opacity** — a subtle grain over solid backgrounds.
* **Card background vibrancy** — how much colour the cards carry.

<Callout type="info">
  Rosé Pine, Rosé Pine Dawn and Kanagawa Dragon define their own colours, so the accent controls aren't available while one of them is selected.
</Callout>

## Colours [#colours]

In **Settings › Visual › Colours**, choose where the accent colour comes from:

* **Default** — follows the season.
* **Avatar** — takes its colour from your profile photo.
* **Preset** — pick from Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Pink or Grey.
* **Custom** — set **Accent colour**, **Vibrancy** and **Lightness** with sliders, or paste a hex colour (for example `#6bc6f1`) and click **Convert**.

## Fonts [#fonts]

In **Settings › Visual › Fonts**:

* **Interface font** — **Stylised** (Hanken Grotesk), **Simple** (Funnel Sans), **Accessible** (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) or **Provide your own font**, where you type the name of a font installed on your device.
* **Use old-fashioned Serif font for some headings** — an italic serif on hero and section titles.
* **Font weight**, **Medium font weight** and **Bold font weight** — sliders for regular text, buttons and large headers.

## Avatars and cards [#avatars-and-cards]

In **Settings › Visual › Avatars & cards**:

* **Reflect colour below cards and avatars** — a glow under cards based on your accent.
* **Profile avatar shape** — **Circular**, **Rounded** or **Square**. This only changes what you see.

## Interface [#interface]

In **Settings › Interface**:

* **Time format** — match your language, 12-hour or 24-hour.
* **Show relative times** — "3 minutes ago" instead of exact dates. Hover for the full date.
* **Compact mode** — tighter rows and spacing.
* **Start page** — the page the dashboard opens on.
* **Overview carousel** — Automatic, Recent alerts or Children.
* **Show alert toasts** — pop up a notification the moment a new alert arrives.

## Seasonal theming [#seasonal-theming]

In **Settings › Seasonal**, **Automatically adapt to seasonal events** adapts the default colour and shows particles depending on the time of year, such as cobwebs at Halloween and falling snow in winter. A timeline shows the current and next season.

* **Show particles during select seasons** — **Full**, **Less** or **None**.
* **Reduce quality of particles** — drops the glow to ease the load on slower devices.
* **Display additional seasonal effects** — cobwebs, frost and other decorations on cards, including the hand-drawn corners during Halloween.

Turn the main switch off to disable all of it.

## Accessibility [#accessibility]

In **Settings › Accessibility**:

* **Reduce motion in animations** — softens animations and hover effects. SafeCircle also follows your system's reduced-motion preference. Seasonal particles stay still while it's on.
* **Show page scrollbar** — scrollbars are hidden by default.
* **Always underline links** — forces buttons, links and other interactive elements to show an underline.

Also consider the **Accessible** interface font under [Fonts](#fonts).

## Import, export and reset [#import-export-and-reset]

The side menu of Settings has three actions:

* **Export** — copy your settings as text, to restore on another device or browser.
* **Import** — paste previously exported text. This replaces your current settings, so only paste text you trust.
* **Reset** — return everything to default. Use **Make a backup** first if you want to keep your current settings.

## Advanced [#advanced]

**Settings › Advanced** is for troubleshooting. Leave it alone if you're not sure what an option does.

* **Developer mode** — shows debug details and internal setting IDs.
* **Reset dismissed tips** — shows the welcome notice and other one-time tips again.
* **Clear cached data** — removes downloaded app files. Your settings and account stay as they are.
* **Copy diagnostics** — copies the version, build, browser and changed settings, ready to paste into a bug report.