Themes & Appearance

DevStride ships with eight built-in themes split across two groups—dark and light—so you can pick the look that's most comfortable for you. Your choice applies instantly across the workspace and is remembered the next time you sign in.

The theme you choose is a personal preference. It is stored in your own browser, so it does not affect anyone else in your organization and it is not an administrator setting. There is no separate Appearance or Theme settings page—everything happens from a single button in the top navigation bar.

Opening the theme chooser

The theme chooser lives in the top navigation bar, near the right end and just before your account avatar. Look for the theme button; hovering over it shows the tooltip Change theme.

Click the button to open a dropdown menu. Themes are grouped under category headers, and the theme you're currently using is marked with a checkmark. Each row shows the theme's name alongside a strip of small color swatches sampled live from that theme's palette, so you get a true preview of how the theme will look before you apply it.

The available themes

There are eight themes in total, organized into a Dark group and a Light group.

Dark themes

• Dark Standard
• Desert
• Cooler
• Forest

Light themes

• Light Standard
• Pastel
• Bolder
• Lipstick

The dark themes are listed first in the chooser, and Dark Standard is the default theme when you haven't yet made a selection.

Applying a theme

Select any theme in the dropdown to apply it. The change takes effect immediately—there's no need to reload the page or refresh. The entire workspace re-colors on the spot, including data-rich views such as the Gantt chart, which repaints to match the theme you chose.

How your theme is remembered

Your selected theme is saved in your browser's local storage, which means:

• It persists across sessions—the theme you picked is re-applied automatically the next time you load DevStride.
• It is specific to the browser and device you set it on. If you sign in from a different browser or computer, you may need to choose your theme again there.
• It is a purely visual, personal setting with no impact on other members of your organization.

Theme on sign-in and public pages

The sign-in and authorization screens respect your stored theme preference, so returning users see the same look they last selected. If no preference is stored yet, these screens fall back to the default theme.

DevStride's standalone public pages—such as external item request forms and shared (published) views—work a little differently. These pages intentionally ignore your in-app theme and instead follow your operating system's light or dark mode setting, so visitors who don't have a DevStride account still get a sensible, system-matched appearance.