 customization. Who doesn't like to change the way their software looks? Blender is well known for it because you can not only change the layouts in crazy shapes but you can also change the colors and people have done that for many years now. You can change basically everything in Blender, all the property, everything has a property of color and now in 2.8 even more options that you can change. So for example in 2.7 I made over the years I worked in this one called Flat T Light which is a light very flat and a bit bright to work during the day and I quite liked it actually. Then I made a dark version of it that it was a bit tinted, it was a bit more contrasty but I kind of liked it over time. This actually got picked up for being part of the Blender 2.8 default then we removed the coloring. If you follow these videos you probably are familiar with it. So over time we ended up with this, the default Blender theme. It's a dark theme with a blue accent and that's pretty much it. The thing is that all the previous themes from previous version they're still there. They're still available but there are widgets for example that are not defined in these old themes because they're old because the Blender has new things like a toolbar, active tool is new or here the top bar is new. So everything pretty much has to be fixed to the new layout. So why not taking the opportunity to just make new ones? Ask the community you to contribute and post their best themes, the coolest themes they can make. So how do you do this? Well I made a thread here in the developer, the forums devtalk.blender.org is called for content themes where you can read the instructions, how to do it but basically it's pretty straightforward how you make it. It hasn't changed that much from 2.7, there are a few new settings. So in the user preferences I would recommend you in order to make a new theme is to reset to default because there are new properties that we already set up. They didn't exist for example the roundness of the widgets or they are not defined in the old themes because this option didn't exist in 2.7. Now it does, now you can change how round a widget is going to be. For example there is a new editor outline which is a line between the editors that makes it a bit more clear to read which editor you're in and that wasn't in 2.7 for example so you also have to change that. The icons, they are now monochrome icons, they have one color which is response to the text in the regular for time being in the regular kind of button. So this is how you can change it. You may want to change that as well and the icons now have a context color. So if there is an object we color it in orange you will probably see that in the add menu for example or in the outliner. So if you want to change that you can make it also monochrome or you can just give it another tint and it will reflect here. I wouldn't suggest changing it that much because for people actually following tutorials it's probably good to get familiar with at least one tint. Yeah of course you can do whatever you want is your theme but maybe it's good that some sort of convention maybe make it less saturated more saturated but it's like changing the color of XYZ right like you can you can make X pink if you want it looks amazing but just to give it a bit more consistency. Gizmos also have their own colors for example when you have a lamp sorry a camera or a lamp type spot you have this Gizmo for example there this you can change the colors out as well here that's a new thing. Overridden for states on the you know when you press I and it becomes keyframed well there's a new state also for overridden which you should take into account so there are so many little things here and there that were added that I will recommend you to start with the default and then start changing the settings per widget it's like a million settings that you have to change so I will recommend once you're done there are even new editors now once you're done like picking up the color the accent color that you want for example you should save this this theme by just clicking on plus and then use like my awesome theme. Climation mark it's gonna get renamed to a more sane name you save it and it should now show up on your config folder so where you save your your 2.8 settings so scripts then inside scripts preset where your startup the blend file is interface theme and then there will be an XML file right here where you can just basically drag and drop in a comment in DevTalk and it should show up there so it's pretty straightforward once you have it I would recommend instead of just going here and change it change the same color everywhere try to make your life easier by editing with a with a text editor find the color that you want and then just do like a search and replace I would do that that's that something I like to to do because then that way it's easier once you change it in your text file you can just apply it again it's like my awesome theme and it's gonna be applied here so you can test change use a text editor to change it and then come back and reflect it I think that that's easier the theme editor in blender could have so many so much improvements could be just one total but it's work that it hasn't been done yet there is a few new editors that you have to take into account as well there is the top bar and the status bar so the status bar is this thing here at the bottom is very simple it has a header color which you can just change and a header text color which is the text so very simple and other editors are not so simple like the top bar for example this is just the heads up that if you want to change the top here this is the header color so the background is the header for example then the tabs themselves they're somewhere else they're tab widgets now so if you change the tab here you won't find it this because it's a working progress at the moment how the tabs get their name before they were per editor but we're thinking of moving it into a widget the same way the color pickers and everything else works but for a time being you just don't spend too much time trying to change this the tab active and inactive background are the currently are the ones that you can see for example in the other editors for example the 3d view if you change the tab color here it it does change here so for this kind of tabs yeah it works but for the tabs up here and in the new navigation sidebar you would find it in the user interface tab here tab item tab inner and inner selected so inner selected is basically the background of the active tab text selected it's the color and this is how you can change it the background itself of this navigation bar is actually per editor so for example in the properties you should go here and you change the background navigation bar background and then that way you can theme it so yeah the theming of blender could use so much work but we are close to the beta very close we have one week and it would be nice to shift with some cool themes so bear with us until this system gets fixed and go through the thrid just to make it make it a bit more pretty it's a lot of work it can take hours to to make a nice theme but I would suggest you to open complex files with it go to the graph editor the dope sheet the text editor house look just just go through all of them and change it accordingly but remember to use a text editor just so you can more easily search and replace once you're happy with it I would also recommend using for example a checking for contrast in your text there is this very nice website web you aim where you can basically give colors give it the colors to the text and the background and they will give you a rating for the accessibility so if it's actually visible for people that yeah maybe have some visual impairment or in general actually it's really good that the contrast is good enough for everyone and do not get tired and yes so I hope you are as excited as I am I am I am very excited because the themes are really what make blender different for everyone so please contribute whatever you have in mind you can also if you feel nostalgic that you can just grab the 2.7 theme and just fix it for 2.8 if you want if you don't like change some things will have to change for example the the roundness is new and other other items the color the icons but there are ways to make it work so thank you for watching and I will see you very very very very soon