Themes & Customization

Change the Mechvibes theme, logo and background, browse community themes and share your own look.

Make Mechvibes yours on the Customize page: pick a theme, restyle the logo and change the background. Changes apply immediately.

Themes

Pick the colours the app paints with.

  • Open Themes and click one of the 36 built-in themes to switch to it
  • Browse themes opens the theme library on this site
  • Create makes your own theme: give it a name and write its colours as DaisyUI CSS variables. Custom themes can be edited or deleted later

Background

Set a colour or a picture behind the app.

Turn on Enable background customization in the Background section, then choose a colour or, with Use image, an image file or URL. Reset returns to the theme's background.

Installing from the Library

Install a look from the theme library in one click.

Open a theme in the theme library. Its page shows the theme as the app draws it, with its colours and what it contains.

A theme's page in the library, with Download file, Install in Mechvibes and Save buttons
  • Install in Mechvibes opens the theme in the app (Mechvibes 3.3 or later on Windows or Linux), which asks which parts of it to use
  • On a Mac, or with an older version, choose Download file, then click Import in Themes, choose the file and press Use this theme
  • Save keeps the theme under Saved for later

Sharing Your Look

Publish your look and share its link.

Publish your theme in the library, then share its link. Everyone who opens the link sees your theme and can install it in one click.

  1. In Themes, click Share, name the theme and press Save file. The .mvtheme file holds the colours, your logo style and images, and your background
  2. On this site, open Share your theme, sign in and choose the file. The page shows what the file holds before anything is sent
  3. Check the name, add a short description and press Publish theme
The Share your theme form with a .mvtheme file chosen, its preview, name and description
The form reads the file first: its picture, its colours and whether it has a logo or a background.
  1. When it is live, choose Copy link and post the short link, such as mechvibes.com/t/ and a seven-character code. On Discord it unfurls into a card with your theme's picture, name and colours
Your theme is live, with the theme's short link and a Copy link button

The link is always on the theme's page, under Share this theme. Pasting the link or its code into the search on the themes page opens the theme too.

Share this theme on a theme's page: the short link and a Copy link button

You can still send the .mvtheme file to a friend instead: they click Import in Themes, choose it and press Use this theme. Manage the themes you published from your profile.

Community

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