# Themes and appearance

Niv's look is calm on purpose, and yours to tune. Everything here is in **Settings › General › Appearance**.

![The theme cards in Settings › General › Appearance](https://niv.md/docs-media/themes.dark.png)

## Theme

- **Automatic**: Papel when your system is light, Abismo when it's dark.
- **Papel**: warm paper; light.
- **Abismo**: near-black; dark.
- **Maré**: glass over a slow field of your colour; dark only.
- **Tinta**: your colour soaks into paper and glass; light and dark.
- **Nítido**: opaque, sharp edges, highest contrast; light and dark.

## Shape

How round the corners are, and how dense the lists:

- **Vega**: balanced. The default.
- **Nova**: compact rows, slightly tighter corners.
- **Maia**: soft and roomy, round corners.
- **Lyra**: sharp corners, same density.
- **Mira**: the densest, for long lists.

## Your colour

Indigo, Blue, Emerald, Rose, Amber or Orange. Tinta and Maré are built from it.

## In the note

- **Show title above the note**: turn it off when your notes open with their own heading.
- **Icons in tabs** and **Icons in the note list**: show each note's icon in the tab bar and in the sidebar.
- **Wide layout**, above each note's title, lets that note use the full width of the window.

## Zoom

**Zoom** scales the whole app. ⌘= zooms in, ⌘- zooms out, ⌘0 goes back to 100%.

## Where these are kept

Theme, shape, colour and the note title setting are saved on this device, for every folder. Icons and zoom are saved in this folder, in `.niv/settings.toml`.

## Language

Niv speaks English and Portuguese. Choose in **Settings › Account › Language**.

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