# Make dark theme available on discourse

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [February 3, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790 "2018-02-03T06:17:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![baggepinnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/baggepinnen/32/693_2.png) [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/1 "2018-02-03T06:17:10Z")

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It seems like discourse has an option to allow users to select visual theme for discourse

> **[Allow users to select dark or light theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-select-dark-or-light-theme/60857)**
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> You can allow your users to select any themes. In this little post I will explain how to create a “dark” theme and “light” theme and then allow users to select between them. Create a Dark color scheme Head to...

If it’s simple to accomplish, could we perhaps have a dark theme enabled for julia discourse?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/2 "2018-02-03T13:56:07Z")

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Enabled. The Julia logo looks kind of lousy in the dark theme, so maybe someone can work on that, but you can use the theme if you don’t mind the less awesome logo.

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/3 "2018-02-03T14:00:59Z")

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why not switch the night-mode logo image to a transparent one with an off-white font?

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/4 "2018-02-03T15:01:03Z")

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That would be fine if you want to go ahead and make those assets.

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/5 "2018-02-03T16:36:27Z")

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best i could do is:

- [https://image.ibb.co/dvgUYm/julia\_dark.png](https://image.ibb.co/dvgUYm/julia_dark.png)

**edit:** using link for image. discourse system bot adds white background to transparent pngs ☹

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svg version of above version: // maybe we can flip colors in circles back

- [https://svgshare.com/i/5Ln.svg](https://svgshare.com/i/5Ln.svg)

corresponding light version (to ensure they have the same dimensions):

- [https://image.ibb.co/ebm7KR/julia\_light.png](https://image.ibb.co/ebm7KR/julia_light.png)

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**update:** here’s also a white font version - [https://image.ibb.co/nHZs3m/julia\_dark.png](https://image.ibb.co/nHZs3m/julia_dark.png)

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**Author:** ![fruno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fruno/32/5013_2.png) [@fruno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fruno)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/6 "2018-02-03T20:29:52Z")

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Thank you! Floaters begone…

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**Author:** ![innerlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b19c9b/32.png) [@innerlee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/innerlee)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/make-dark-theme-available-on-discourse/8790/7 "2018-04-26T12:32:07Z")

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Has this nice logo applied on the site? it is still white bg here on my machine.