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title: Appearance
description: Set your terminal theme and font, tune the cursor and window, and find the rest of Termio’s settings — all in a familiar macOS settings window.
---

Open **Settings** with `⌘,`. It’s a standard macOS settings window with a sidebar
of tabs; **Appearance** is where the terminal’s look lives.

## Theme

Termio uses Ghostty-format themes, so anything from the wider Ghostty theme
ecosystem works. Pick a light and a dark theme from **Settings ▸ Appearance** and
Termio follows the system between them.

The two slots list the themes you have — Termio’s own canvas plus whatever is in
your Themes folder — not a catalog of hundreds you never chose.

<DocsImage
  src="/screenshots/docs/15-appearance-settings.png"
  alt="Termio Appearance settings with System, Light, and Dark modes and separate light and dark terminal theme slots"
  width={1664}
  height={1288}
/>

If you already use Ghostty, there’s nothing to pick on a fresh install: Termio
reads your `~/.config/ghostty/config` on first launch and starts with the font and
theme you chose there.

## Getting more themes

**Browse Themes…** opens a store of 69 well-known schemes — Dracula, Catppuccin,
Gruvbox, Rose Pine, Solarized, and the rest — each one picked to stay readable
through a working day, and no two unrelated ones close enough to arrive twice
under different names. Flavors of one family are the exception: all four
Catppuccins are there, because the flavor name is exactly what its users pick
between. **Install** writes that theme into your Themes folder and selects it in
the light or dark slot it belongs to. Nothing is downloaded: the schemes ship
inside Termio.

If a file of the same name is already in your Themes folder, Install stops and
asks before replacing it — a theme you dropped in yourself is yours. **Remove**
deletes the file, and asks first if you have edited it.

To switch between the themes you have with your terminals as the preview, open
the Command Palette (`⇧⌘P`) and pick **Change Theme…** — arrowing through the
list restyles your open terminals live, Return keeps the theme, Escape puts it
back.

<DocsImage
  src="/screenshots/docs/14-change-theme.png"
  alt="The Change Theme palette over a Termio terminal with Catppuccin Latte selected and applied"
  width={2424}
  height={1664}
/>

To add a theme the store doesn’t carry, drop a Ghostty-format theme file into:

```
~/Library/Application Support/termio/Themes/
```

The **Open Themes Folder** button takes you straight there, and **Reload** picks
up new files without a restart.

## Font

Choose any monospaced font installed on your Mac, set its size, and toggle
**Thicken glyphs** if you like a heavier weight. Font size also has live shortcuts
while you work — `⌘=` to grow, `⌘-` to shrink, `⌘0` to reset.

## Cursor & window

The same tab tunes the cursor (block, bar, or underline; steady or blinking) and
the window itself — padding around the terminal, and background opacity and blur
for a translucent window over your desktop. The app’s own chrome lives here too:
the sidebar’s font and density.

## The rest of Settings

The other tabs cover the rest of the app:

- **General** — language, task notifications, the GitHub integration behind the
  inspector’s Issues pane, and a Privacy switch for anonymous daily usage
  statistics.
- **Terminal** — scrollback history and text selection.
- **Devices** — this Mac and every machine you reach from it, one row each,
  drilling into how that machine is reached and what Termio has installed on it.
  See [Devices](/docs/devices).
- **Workspaces** — every workspace with the machine it’s on, and the place to
  rename or remove one. See [Workspaces](/docs/workspaces).
- **Keyboard** — rebind any shortcut; see [Keyboard shortcuts](/docs/keyboard).
- **Agents** — add agents, enable them, and turn on [session
  control](/docs/session-control). The pane carries a machine scope, because
  where an agent’s CLI lives is a fact about one machine.
- **Usage** — token usage for agents you sign in to (Claude Code, Codex). Termio
  reuses each CLI’s own credentials to show you where you stand against your
  limits; it stores nothing of its own.
- **Mobile** — pair your iPhone with a machine, and publish an address it can
  reach. See the [iPhone companion](/docs/iphone).
- **Community** — where to find the project: GitHub, Discord, and the WeChat group.

Settings that can differ per machine say which machine they mean, with a picker
at the top of the pane. What you change there is what that machine gets.