Themes
Choose and customize the shared colors, fonts, cards, and chart palette used across your Vendo workspace.
Last reviewed October 10, 2026
Open Settings → Themes to manage the saved themes for your workspace. The Active column shows the workspace default.
Choose the active theme
Select the unchecked control in the Active column. Choose how to apply the theme, then select Activate theme:
- Preserve existing keeps existing Dashboard and Chart theme selections.
- Apply to all changes those selections to the new workspace theme. Local Dashboard styles and manual Chart series colors stay unchanged.
Documents inherit the active workspace theme with either option. Their content, heading levels, sizes, weights, and formatting stay unchanged.
The changes save together. If you cannot edit a Dashboard or access a Chart, Apply to all fails without saving a partial change. Choose Preserve existing or ask the artifact owner for access.
Create or duplicate a theme
Select New theme to start from the active theme. Give the new theme a unique name, customize it, and save it. Creating a theme does not make it active automatically.
To copy an existing theme, open it and select … → Duplicate. The copy includes the current editor values, including changes that you have not saved to the original theme.
Edit a theme
Select … → Edit in the theme table. On the theme page, you can:
- Choose Day, Night, or System appearance.
- Select a predefined heading and body font pair, then customize Titles, Subtitles, Text, and Links with a font and color for each.
- Edit separate Day and Night colors for dashboard and document backgrounds, typography, cards, borders, accents, text boxes, links, charts, and comparisons.
- Set the chart color palette.
- Set card borders and corner radius.
- Review sample Dashboard, Chart, and Document content in the live preview.
System follows the viewer’s browser or operating-system color preference. It does not follow the Vendo application appearance.
Use the Day and Night tabs to edit and preview each color set. Fonts and layout settings apply to both appearances.
An existing theme keeps its current colors as Day. Night initially changes only the dashboard background, using the app’s Night background. All other colors stay unchanged. You can customize the Night dashboard background and any other Night color.
The editor groups settings into Fonts, Background colours, Chart components, Chart colours, and Comparisons. Documents and chart components have white backgrounds by default. Document backgrounds are separate from dashboard backgrounds and chart cards.
Titles controls page/chart titles and H1. Subtitles controls H2–H6. Text controls body text and dashboard text boxes, and Links controls link typography. Existing text-box fonts and colors stay unchanged until you edit Text or choose a font pair. Changing Text then applies that edit to both body text and text boxes. Choosing a font pair sets Titles and Subtitles to the heading font, and Text and Links to the body font.
Fonts, opacity, borders, radius and shadow remain shared across appearances. Theme typography preserves document heading levels, sizes, weights, emphasis and structure.
Select the theme title to rename it. Select Save to update the current theme. Saved style changes apply anywhere that uses that saved theme.
If another person or the Agent updates the same theme while you are editing, Vendo keeps your draft. It asks you to reload or duplicate the theme. This prevents an older edit from replacing a newer version.
Delete a theme
Open … → Delete from the theme table or editor. You cannot delete:
- The active theme.
- A system theme supplied by Vendo.
- The built-in Default theme.
Duplicate a system theme when you need a separate customer-owned version that can be deleted later.
Where themes apply
| Content | Theme behaviour |
|---|---|
| Dashboards | Can use a saved theme and keep Dashboard-specific style changes. |
| Vendo Documents | Inherit the active workspace theme. Typography changes the font family without changing heading levels or emphasis. |
| Standalone Charts | Use theme data colours and comparisons. Full font and card styling is not available yet. |
| Imported documents | Keep the presentation supplied by the source. |
Use themes with the Agent
The Vendo Agent can list and inspect saved themes, rename one, select its appearance, and update either color set. It can also update shared font, card, and comparison settings. The Agent uses the same permissions and version checks as the Settings page.
Creating, activating, duplicating, and deleting themes remains in Settings → Themes.
Permissions
Workspace members with Dashboard write permission can create, rename, edit, activate, duplicate, and delete eligible themes. Members with read access can view the theme library and editor.