[Feature Request] User-Customized Color Theme

[harp37]

I don't know if you'd be interested, but I'd love a viewing mode that features a light page background but a dark user interface. It is featured in Fade In, Scrivener, etc. and I prefer it over Mac's standard dark mode, which is frankly quite dark.

I think it'd interesting to call it "Goldilocks" mode or something like that. But calling it "Happy Medium" might be a bit more reasonable and easier for the average chump who comes across it to understand without thinking too hard about classic literary references.

[lmparppei]

There have been requests for being able to customize the colors. This has been against Beat's design philosophy but doable. For now it's low-priority, but adding a third "theme" is completely possible.

It's actually possible to modify the existing colors yourself – go to the Beat package (right click in Finder, show package contents) and navigate to the Resources folder. Themes.plist contains the theme RGB values. If you come up with something, submit the modified plist file to me via e-mail and I'll look into adding a new theme when I can.

[lmparppei]

Some work related to this can now be found under User Interface/Themes in the Xcode project. The plist file has been restructured (third entry in the dictionary is the new model) and the user-made theme should be saved as a plist in the app support dir.