Themes control how every key and dial looks: background, label, value, unit, accent and sparkline track. Seven presets ship with the plugin, and you can set one per key/dial or once for the whole deck. On top of that, type accents tint the accent color by sensor category, and alerts override everything when a value crosses a threshold.
The seven presets
Pick a theme from the live gallery in any key’s or dial’s settings (the Theme row). Every chip previews its real colors.
| Preset | Character |
|---|---|
| Void (default) | True black (#000000): pixels off on OLED, only the data glows. |
| Graphite | Near-black slate (#1A1C22): the plugin’s original look, retuned. Existing installs stay here after updating (see below). |
| Ultraviolet | Deep violet cast with lavender signal. |
| Midnight | Blue-black with ice-blue signal. |
| Forest | Green-black with spring-green signal. |
| Ember | Amber-on-black monochrome: VFD/nostalgia look, warm amber value on true black. |
| Paper | High-contrast light theme (near-black ink on warm paper #E9E6DE) for bright rooms and low vision. |
Note: Void is the default for new installs. Graphite is the pre-theme legacy look. If you had the plugin configured before themes existed, the deck default stays on Graphite so nothing changes visually; a genuinely fresh install starts on Void. Either way, the moment you pick any theme yourself, that choice takes over.
Per-key vs. deck-wide
Every key and dial has its own Theme setting. You can:
- Set a preset per key/dial: that key uses exactly that theme, ignoring everything else.
- Follow the deck default: the key uses whatever the deck-wide theme is, so changing one setting re-skins the whole wall at once.
Set the deck-wide theme under Advanced → Deck theme in any key’s settings, or under Dial gestures & advanced → Deck theme on a dial (it’s a global setting; there’s one value for the whole plugin).
Precedence
The rule: a per-key theme always wins. The Advanced Deck theme only affects keys and dials set to Deck default.
The “Deck default” chip
The theme gallery leads with a Deck default chip, followed by the seven presets. Click it to make that key follow the deck-wide theme instead of pinning a preset.
Because that chip previews the resolved deck theme, it could look identical to the preset it currently follows. To keep it unmistakable, the Deck default chip (as of 1.1.5):
- wears a dashed frame and a small link/follow badge (a drawn glyph, not an emoji, so it stays legible on any palette),
- shows “auto” on its face instead of a sample value,
- names the resolved theme in its tooltip and in the help line under the gallery, e.g. Deck default · Void / “currently Void”.
So even when the deck theme it follows renders an identical palette, the follow chip is never mistaken for the Void (or any) preset chip.
Type accents
Type accents (Advanced → Type accents, on by default) color each key’s accent (the sparkline, the corner badge, and the dial’s range bar) by the sensor’s type. Only the accent changes; label, value and unit keep the theme’s own luminance rhythm.
| Sensor type | Accent |
|---|---|
| Temperature | Rose (#FF7E8E) |
| Fan | Cyan (#3FBEDD) |
| Power | Gold (#D4AB33) |
| Clock | Green (#38CD89) |
| Load / usage | Violet (#B195FF) |
| Network | Blue (#6FA7FF) |
| Memory | Magenta (#CE8BE0) |
Network and memory readings don’t have a dedicated HWiNFO type, so they’re recognized from the unit (throughput like MB/s, Mbps) or label (memory, RAM/VRAM). Anything the plugin can’t classify keeps the theme’s own accent.
Turn type accents off (Advanced → Type accents → “Off (theme accent everywhere)”) to use the theme’s accent color everywhere instead.
Note: Paper ignores type accents by design: its accent stays ink so the light theme keeps its high contrast. Switching to Paper effectively disables accents regardless of the toggle.
Alerts override everything
When a value crosses a threshold (see Alerts & thresholds), the theme steps aside for a global alert palette:
| Level | Field | Text |
|---|---|---|
| Warn | Bright amber (#E8940D) | Black |
| Critical | Red (#CB2114) | White |
On keys, the whole face flips: background, label, value, accent and track all recolor from the alert palette. On dials (Stream Deck +), only the range bar fill flips to the alert color; the rest of the touchscreen stays themed, because the slot is too small for a full field flip.
The two alert palettes are global, never tinted per theme, and the warn/crit fields differ in luminance as well as hue. That aviation-style master-caution/master-warning treatment keeps warn and critical unmistakable on any theme and with any color-vision deficiency. Type accents don’t apply while alerting.
Themes and colors are pure display: nothing here is sent anywhere. This is a Windows-only, HWiNFO-dependent plugin with no telemetry (MIT licensed). See Sensor Reading (keys) and Sensor Dial (Stream Deck +) for where each color lands on the face, and Alerts & thresholds for the threshold rules that trigger the alert palette.