Themes and colors
Every note remembers its own look. These settings live in the note settings panel , in the color row.
Classic colors
Seven classics: Yellow, Blue, Pink, Green, Gray, Lavender, Cream. These adapt automatically between light and dark mode. At the end of the row sits a custom well wearing a small palette; it opens a full color picker, and once you pick a color the well wears that color instead. Notel derives a matching paper, border, and ink from whatever you choose. You can also override the text color on its own, with a one-click way back to the theme’s default.
The Themes tab
Switch the picker from Custom to Themes for the full collection, 26 strong: Biolume, Nord, Unicorn 1 and 2, Matrix, Dracula, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine, Forest, White on Black, Amber CRT, Sakura, Galaxy, Cyberpunk, Porcelain, Matcha, Espresso, Blood Moon, Blueprint, Acid, Copper Patina, Glacier, Lavander Town, Riso Press, Mossfire, and Limoncello.
Themes are complete designs, not just colors: several (Unicorn 1 and 2, Nord, Riso Press) ink the text itself across a rainbow, and one, Biolume, adds a glowing outline. Themes keep their authored look in both light and dark mode.
Hover a theme in the list and a small minus lets you hide it from the picker; once anything is hidden, Reset themes appears at the bottom and brings them all back. Settings → Advanced → Design carries the toggle Include themed notes in random note color picker, which decides whether themed looks can turn up when a new note gets a random color. It ships off.
Default look for new notes
Settings → Note Design sets what a brand-new note wears: default color or theme, font, text size, opacity, and title-bar style, with a live preview note.
Painting a stack
Right-click the title bar of any note in a stack and open Color Notes:
- Unique Colors… gives every note in the stack its own color.
- Spectrum… paints the whole pile as a smooth gradient between colors you pick, or a random pair.
- Same Color… unifies the pile.
Coming soon
Designing and saving your own named themes is on the roadmap.