# Appearance

> Light, dark, or matching your device: how the dashboard theme is chosen and what it changes.

Source: https://docs.ayinbox.com/guides/appearance/

The dashboard comes in a light and a dark theme. **Light** is the default. **System** follows your device's light or dark setting and switches with it, so a laptop that goes dark at sunset takes the dashboard along without a reload.

Changing the theme [#changing-the-theme]

There are three places to pick one, and they all do the same thing:

* **User menu.** Open the menu under your name at the bottom of the sidebar and use the three-way switch next to **Theme**.
* **Settings.** **Settings > Profile > Appearance** shows a preview of each option.
* **Command palette.** Press **⌘K** (**Ctrl K** on Windows and Linux) and type `dark`, `light` or `system`.

The choice is saved in this browser, so a work laptop and a phone can each keep their own. Every open tab of the dashboard switches together.

What the dark theme leaves light [#what-the-dark-theme-leaves-light]

A few things are shown the way someone else will see them, whatever theme you use:

* **Designed email.** In the unibox, a plain reply is drawn in the dashboard's dark colours. A message that brings its own colours or backgrounds (a newsletter, a branded signature, most mail written in Outlook) sits on a white sheet instead, so it looks the way its sender designed it.
* **Forms.** The form builder previews your form with its own design, as visitors will see it on the published page.
* **Shared images.** An analytics card exported as an image always uses the light design.

Mail you send is not affected by your theme. Recipients see exactly what you wrote.