# Dark theme for admin?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** dark-theme
**Created:** [August 30, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703 "2015-08-30T08:44:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![rexkimta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rexkimta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rexkimta)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/1 "2015-08-30T08:44:28Z")

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It seems dark theme is terrible for admin page. Like this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/3/a329f2514d09d91d446272bdbd0f2277ab0d9ac1.png)

Or this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/3/c385c3e1c319701f66a74c0c6a075d163f655cfe.png)

Is there any way to fix this?

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### Author: ![Yuun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/977dab/32.png) [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/2 "2015-08-30T14:35:43Z")

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I wish I could be more specific, but I don’t quite remember - when I first put up a dark theme on my forum, my admin page had the same visibility issue, but it fixed itself after some time. It was either a hard refresh, upgrade, or container rebuild, but in any case it worked fine afterwards.

Sorry for the vagueness!

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### Author: ![rexkimta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rexkimta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rexkimta)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/3 "2015-08-30T15:02:06Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/0/5004ec72b4592136583f478b4133d7ea7875685e.png) 

My discourse version is greater than V1.4.0.beta9. So I guess the version is fine. Have you done some change in CSS/HTML in cumstomization?

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### Author: ![Yuun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/977dab/32.png) [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/4 "2015-08-30T16:33:05Z")

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Plenty, but nothing aimed specifically at this issue. This is from when I originally set up the forum, and I mean that it literally resolved itself, like some part of the color customization was lagging behind the rest and it updated after X time or X event (e.g. upgrade, rebuild).

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### Author: ![KevinWorkman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kevinworkman/32/122364_2.png) [@KevinWorkman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KevinWorkman)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/5 "2015-08-31T16:57:23Z")

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This was recently dealt with. See here: [Coming soon to Meta 🌑 DARKNESS 🌑 - #128 by anon82356247](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-new-moon-darkness-new-moon/31993/128)

Try updating your discourse (mine is 1.4.0.beta10), and if it’s still ugly, try disabling your custom css.

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### Author: ![rexkimta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rexkimta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rexkimta)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-theme-for-admin/32703/6 "2015-09-01T15:14:56Z")

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It works! Thank you for help. Wait for stable release now.