Themes and appearance

Niv · Docs Published on October 8, 2026

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

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.