# Per-user theme selection
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-user-theme-selection/32450
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** dark-theme
**Created:** [August 24, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-user-theme-selection/32450 "2015-08-24T02:12:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Daniel\_M](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daniel_M)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-user-theme-selection/32450/1 "2015-08-24T02:12:35Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Coming soon to Meta 🌑 DARKNESS 🌑](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-new-moon-darkness-new-moon/31993/132):
> [@Coming soon to Meta new\_moon DARKNESS new\_moon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/131):
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> I made a quick mockup of what a theme selector could look like.
> Collapsed:
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> [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d225f781196992b2dc83533f3c4a8ed0d4dfd9cd.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d225f781196992b2dc83533f3c4a8ed0d4dfd9cd.png)
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> Expanded (note that it only shows part of the menu, as I only had time to make one part; ignore the font glitches):
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> [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/657e39a226407397ac293f1f0fa2dd0142ca0549.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/657e39a226407397ac293f1f0fa2dd0142ca0549.png)
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> Another option would to have boxes next to the name with the colors (like in the category color selection dialog).
> [@Coming soon to Meta new\_moon DARKNESS new\_moon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/132):
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> I assume you are talking about an admin selector.
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> We would like to ship with some sane defaults here:
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> More than happy to see visual mockups on how to improve this UI.
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> That said this topic has totally run its course and needs to be split off. Closing it in favor of topics with specific action points and feedback.
No, that was a mockup of a per-user theme selector, located under preferences (in fact, the mockup was based off of a “custom field” on a VM that I installed discourse on a while back). I still think that a built-in per-user theme would be better than installing an extension (+ the user doesn’t have to know how to write CSS).
BTW, when I quoted my post, discourse didn’t automatically copy images.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-user-theme-selection/32450/2 "2016-04-17T19:12:49Z")
7 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Letting users select different themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letting-users-select-different-themes/12624)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/per-user-theme-selection/32450/3 "2016-04-17T19:12:50Z")