Docs/Settings/Appearance

Appearance

This tab holds the theme the whole app wears, the font your notes are written and read in, and how a calendar lays out its weeks. Each takes effect the moment you change it.

Theme

The Theme dropdown lets you pick Dark, Light, High Contrast, or System (which follows your computer's own light-or-dark setting). You can also switch themes from the status bar or with ⌘⇧T. For a closer look at each theme, see the Themes page.

Plugins can add themes, which appear under From plugins in the dropdown and after the built-in ones everywhere else you pick a theme. If you turn a plugin off while its theme is in use, Minerva switches to System until you turn it back on. If a plugin's theme has text that's hard to read against its background, a note under the dropdown says which colours.

Content font

The Content font dropdown sets the typeface your notes appear in, both as you write and in the reading view. It changes only your note text — the app's menus, sidebars, and dialogs keep their usual look. Choose whichever reads best for you:

Minerva default
Minerva's built-in typewriter-style font. The look you start with.
System Sans
A clean, rounded font for a relaxed, prose-first reading feel.
Serif
A book-like serif for long-form notes.
Monospace
An even-width font where every character lines up.
JetBrains Mono
A popular even-width font, used if you have it installed.
Berkeley Mono
Another even-width font, used if you have it installed.
System mono
Your computer's own even-width font.
The Appearance tab in Settings, with the Theme dropdown at the top and the Content font dropdown below it, its list of font choices open.
The Appearance tab

Calendar weeks

Two settings at the bottom of the tab shape every calendar view:

Week starts on
The day in a calendar's first column. Automatic, the setting you start with, follows your computer's region and names the day it picked, as in Automatic (Monday). Choose Monday, Sunday or Saturday to set it yourself.
Show week numbers
Adds a column of ISO 8601 week numbers beside each week, where week 1 is the week holding the year's first Thursday. Off to start with.

Both belong to this computer, not to a thoughtbase, so they apply to every thoughtbase you open here, and someone else opening the same thoughtbase keeps their own. A calendar you export follows them too, so a web page or PDF has its weeks laid out as they were in the preview you exported from.