Themes

A theme sets the colours, fonts, corner radii, spacing and motion. Every template works with every theme. Change the theme without touching the content:

meta:
  theme: aurora

You can also use the theme menu in the editor's top bar.

Built-in themes

Build build
White slides, azure and amber, diagram-friendly. The default.

Atelier atelier
Warm ivory, teal and rose, editorial serif headings.

Aurora aurora
Dark and modern: violet and mint, oversized headings.

Azure azure
Azure brand: Azure blue, AI purple, Segoe UI.

The same slide in each theme:

Build

Atelier

Aurora

Azure

Fonts are never downloaded

The themes use fonts installed on your computer, with named fallbacks, so a deck makes no network requests. To get the exact look of the build theme, install Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Sans and IBM Plex Mono.

Your own theme

Copy a built-in theme into <deck>/themes/<name>.yaml or ~/.config/deckforge/themes/<name>.yaml, then rename it and change its palette:

name: my-theme
label: My theme
palette:
  primary: "#0F6CBD"
  accent: "#C2620A"
  # …

deckforge checks every value. Anything that could break out of CSS is rejected. The theme file reference lists every token.