Virlow

Themes

Make it yours.

A theme sets Virlow's colours, its body font, the text size and the shape of its corners, for light and dark. Pick one below to use it, or download the file and make your own. Your themes are saved to your account and follow you to every device.

Make your own

A theme is a
short YAML file.

Every setting is optional. Whatever a theme leaves out comes from your own Surface, Accent and Text size settings, so a theme that only changes the accent is a complete theme.

In Virlow, open Settings, then Appearance, then New theme. It starts from the theme you are using, with every colour filled in and a comment on each, and a Preview button shows it on the real app before you save. Import accepts a file like the ones above.

  • Colours are quoted hex, like "#1f1d1a". In YAML an unquoted # starts a comment.
  • Names are fixed: background, surface, raised, border, border-soft, text, text-muted, text-faint, accent, accent-soft, accent-text, danger, success, warning.
  • Fonts are sans, system, serif or mono, so a theme never downloads anything. Size is 13 to 20 pixels.
  • Readable text is required: text must reach 4.5:1 against its background, and the editor warns about weaker pairs.

Themes change how Virlow looks, never what it can see. Your notes stay encrypted on your device whichever theme you use. The optional hosted AI connector and code execution are the two features that work differently, and the security page explains both. 

virlow-theme: 1
id: harbour
name: Harbour
description: Sea-glass greens, square corners.

light:
  background: "#f3f7f6"
  text: "#14211f"
  accent: "#2f6f66"

dark:
  background: "#101a19"
  text: "#e2eeec"
  accent: "#7cc4b8"

type:
  font: sans
  size: 16

shape:
  radius: sharp