Themes

Novelty Writer ships with twenty named palettes — ten light/dark pairs, each hand-designed. There is no mechanical “dark filter” that washes a light theme into a dark one; every twin is its own palette.

The pairs

1. Monastic / Nocturne — cool neutral gray and midnight indigo. The default.
2. Parchment / Cloister — sepia ink on warm cream, candle-lit warm stone after dark.
3. Vellum / Palimpsest — aged bone with traces of older ink underneath.
4. Ink Well / Pitch — typewriter stark; OLED black for late nights.
5. Foolscap / Moleskine — legal-pad cream, leather notebook espresso.
6. Rose Folio / Noir Rose — muted mauve, deep wine dust-jacket noir.
7. Arctic / Abyss — cold near-white, deep teal-black ocean.
8. Meadow / Phosphor — soft sage paper, CRT green for hacker-writer mode.
9. Linen / Driftwood — warm natural fiber, sun-bleached coastal grays.
10. Celadon / Sumi — pale jade paper, sumi-e ink with a bone brush.

Switching themes

• Theme toggle in the appbar (◐) flips to the paired twin of the current theme. Parchment goes to Cloister, not the global default.
• Preferences - Appearance shows every palette as a live swatch. Click any to apply.
• Command palette (Cmd+K) - type “theme” for a complete list and a Toggle theme chord.

The monastic rule

Every theme obeys one constraint: no accent color. Emphasis is carried by weight, rule thickness, and ink contrast — never by a hue. Even Phosphor’s CRT-green palette uses the green as its body color, not as a button accent. AI marks are dashed gray underlines, not red squiggles.

If a theme ever felt like it had an accent, it would not have shipped.