Themes
Slate has two themes: Mint (dark) and Forest (light). Choose one in Settings → Appearance; it sets the light/dark mode and the whole palette at once.
| Theme | Mode | Look |
|---|---|---|
| Mint | Dark | The default. A near-black, neutral ground; the brand in mint |
| Forest | Light | An off-white, neutral ground; the brand in forest green |
Surfaces, borders, text and icons at rest are neutral grey. Green is kept for a few things: Slate's mark, the main button, what is selected, and the rail tab you are on.
- Charts draw one series in sage. The bar you point at turns mint or forest.
- State keeps its own colours. Amber means something needs you, red means it failed or the next step cannot be undone, and green means done or connected. A state is always shown with a word or an icon too.
- The running light is lime, the brand's fourth colour, and nothing else is: a bright lime on Mint, a deep one on Forest.
- Terminal output stays in colour. A CLI's red means a failure. The terminal takes its surface from the theme and keeps its sixteen ANSI colours.
Workspace colours#
A workspace can wear one of nine colours: Cobalt, Lagoon, Iris, Silver, Orchid, Fjord, Heather, Wisteria and Graphite. They are cool colours and two neutrals, so none competes with the brand green or reads as a state. A few are close for some colour-vision types (Iris and Silver under tritanopia), so a workspace's mark is always shown beside its name. Choose one in Settings → Workspaces. The colour marks the workspace in the switcher's list, in Settings, in the Sessions workspace picker and as a small dot on the workspace tile. Doc icons, the rail tabs and the Sessions map wear the brand, not the workspace.
Light and dark with ⌘⇧L#
⌘⇧L, or Toggle light / dark theme in the palette, switches between Mint and Forest. The Active card in Settings → Appearance moves with it. All keys: Keyboard shortcuts.
Brand colour#
Buttons, links and focus rings use mint on Mint and forest on Forest. It is not a setting. On Mint the main button is mint with forest words; on Forest it is forest with paper-white words.
There is no per-element colour picker and no custom theme file. A theme chosen in an older version (Strata, Chalk, Onyx or Graphite) opens as Mint or Forest, whichever has the same mode.
Size#
⌘+ and ⌘− zoom the whole app (text, icons, spacing, memory graph) in ten-percent steps from 80% to 140%, starting at 110%. The zoom is saved on this computer, not in your workspace. In a terminal the same keys resize only that terminal's font; click outside it to zoom the app again.
See also#
- Memory Graph and Map
- Typed Docs & Hierarchy
- Sessions — the Live Tracker: where the running light appears
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