# FontBase light dark & theme work in progress — thoughts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beta\ **Created:** [May 26, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42 "2021-05-26T14:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dominik/32/4_2.png) [@dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dominik)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/1 "2021-05-26T14:35:08Z")
Working on light and dark themes for FontBase. Here’s a preview of the light one. What do you think? ![11](https://forum.fontba.se/uploads/default/original/1X/972d5e83164580ae7584f1cc9b3d731a44fcf231.png) ---
**Author:** ![tsaritzky](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb9ed0/32.png) [@tsaritzky](https://forum.fontba.se/u/tsaritzky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/2 "2021-05-27T15:36:27Z")
I much prefer lighter themes, although maybe not bright white which can be glaring. ---
**Author:** ![mackleys](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mackleys](https://forum.fontba.se/u/mackleys)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/3 "2021-05-30T14:37:19Z")
I too prefer light themes for my design apps. This looks good to me. ---
**Author:** ![dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dominik/32/4_2.png) [@dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dominik)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/5 "2021-05-31T15:43:19Z")
Dark theme work in progress: ![55N6cOFv6A](https://forum.fontba.se/uploads/default/original/1X/ec34bc729ddde1cf199d20f65f50ace7f85d22f4.png) ---
**Author:** ![dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/dominik/32/4_2.png) [@dominik](https://forum.fontba.se/u/dominik)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/6 "2021-05-31T16:47:26Z")
Continuing working on this, we have removed some unnecessary lines from the UI, and rearranged the spacings a bit to make it cleaner and easier to look at. ![222](https://forum.fontba.se/uploads/default/original/1X/908e7332ed93158a7af3466fd3df66ddca0b012f.png) ---
**Author:** ![waldbach](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/waldbach/32/57_2.png) [@waldbach](https://forum.fontba.se/u/waldbach)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/7 "2021-06-09T04:55:25Z")
Love it, really looking forward to a dark version! What would also be nice, but not sure if possibl, that the whole window changes colors when you adjust the colors for the type, gives a cleaner and more effective visual context to trying out fonts in different color settings, eg. roughly gives one an idea of how it looks in UI, website, etc. ---
**Author:** ![alex-postprojects](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@alex-postprojects](https://forum.fontba.se/u/alex-postprojects)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/8 "2026-02-19T09:18:28Z")
Your theme settings should have an option to obey your OS system theme. Sort of standard practice at this point I would argue. ---
**Author:** ![rombout](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/rombout/32/229_2.png) [@rombout](https://forum.fontba.se/u/rombout)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/9 "2026-10-09T23:24:47Z")
Kinda baffled, they stripped the black from the free version and now only white is the option. ---
**Author:** ![calfnorris](https://forum.fontba.se/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@calfnorris](https://forum.fontba.se/u/calfnorris)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/fontbase-light-dark-theme-work-in-progress-thoughts/42/10 "2026-10-17T13:22:54Z")
Is there going to be the option to keep the “classic” version too? I had to revert back to an older version because the new one forced it to follow my system UI which is set to ‘light’ mode.The new version I find it harder to read and there’s no way to get back to the old UI. It was clear to me the folder structure (black bg with white letters) and the fonts on the right with black text on white. I also tried to see how the ‘dark’ mode looked but that was also a bit hard but better. But then all me other system apps would be in dark me (like explorer) and those would be hard to read for me, so I couldn’t really switch the system UI to dark.