# Set default theme to light

**URL:** <https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [November 21, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26 "2024-11-21T07:04:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BSchilperoort](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/bschilperoort/32/14_2.png) [@BSchilperoort](https://forum.csdms.io/u/BSchilperoort)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26/1 "2024-11-21T07:04:15Z")

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The site was very dark even though my system is set to light mode.

Maybe it would be better to set the settings to something like this:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/uploads/csdms/original/1X/198f578f9e59059b693e8123998fb4a7be7d8466.png)

so that both dark and light users can be happy? The user’s system preference should be detected. 😀

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**Author:** ![wkearn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/wkearn/32/6_2.png) [@wkearn](https://forum.csdms.io/u/wkearn)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26/2 "2024-11-21T08:17:45Z")

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Indeed, the first thing I did was switch my theme.

There should now be a default theme that switches between light and dark mode depending on your system settings if your device supports it – it seems to work on my phone but not my desktop Firefox. Let me know if that seems like a good solution. There are a lot of buttons on the Admin Panel to play around with.

If you want to change your own per-user settings, you can find the page that @BSchilperoort referenced under the “Interface” tab on your user preferences ([https://forum.csdms.io/u/$USER\_NAME/preferences](https://forum.csdms.io/u/$USER_NAME/preferences)).

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**Author:** ![BSchilperoort](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/bschilperoort/32/14_2.png) [@BSchilperoort](https://forum.csdms.io/u/BSchilperoort)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26/3 "2024-11-21T10:30:26Z")

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I can’t check if it’s fixed, because I changed my own user settings and I don’t see a way to reset those to default. But it should be good now.

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**Author:** ![samharrison7](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/forum.csdms.io/samharrison7/32/9_2.png) [@samharrison7](https://forum.csdms.io/u/samharrison7)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.csdms.io/t/set-default-theme-to-light/26/4 "2024-11-21T20:50:45Z")

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Glad it’s not just me who changed the theme to light straight away 😁