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General
Color Themes

Audiocube ships with several ready-made colour schemes and a Custom Theme engine so you can brand the UI - or just tweak contrast - exactly to taste.
How the Tonal System Works
Every theme is defined by eight greyscale T-tones plus two Highlight accents.
The engine references these swatches consistently, so one edit recolours the entire application.
ID | Typical Use | Default (Dark Theme) |
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T1 | Deepest background / pop-ups |
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T2 | Recessed panels |
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T3 | Back-step layers |
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T4 | Main panel plates |
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T5 | Raised controls |
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T6 | Interactive elements |
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T7 | 2nd contrast tint |
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T8 | Brightest white |
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Highlight | Sliders / scrollbars |
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Highlight2 | Icons / active toggles |
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Changing Themes
There are three ways to change your color theme:
Method | Steps |
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Menu | View ▶ Colour Theme → choose a preset. |
Shortcut | Ctrl / ⌘ + T cycles through installed themes. |
Terminal | Use the terminal command
color-theme nord dark |
Creating a Custom Theme
Open the Theme Folder
Console:
open-folder default
Project Manager / Browser: 📂 Open Folder
Path example (Windows):
C:\Users\<User>\AppData\LocalLow\NFK\Audiocube\ColorThemes\
Duplicate the Template - Copy
TemplateColorTheme.txt
and rename it—do not delete the original.Edit in a Text Editor
Set
ThemeName=
to what you want displayed.Modify only the numeric values after each key (e.g.,
T4=
).Do not remove comments or keys; missing lines break parsing. Do not change anything in the file, other than the color values, and the theme name.
Save the file in the same folder.
Relaunch the Colour Theme menu - your theme appears under Custom Themes.
Alternatively, use the custom color theme builder website to make and download color themes visually!
Open the Audiocube Color Theme Editor
Quick Editing Tips
Stick to the 0 – 1 float range; 1 = full intensity.
Keep T1 → T8 in ascending brightness to preserve depth cues.
Use Highlight for subtle accents; Highlight2 for call-to-action icons.
For readability, maintain high contrast between PrimaryTextColor and its background tone.
World & Waveform Swatches
Beyond UI plates, the theme file also colours:
SkyColor / GridColor / DeviceColor – the 3-D workspace.
WaveBackgroundColor / WaveformColor – sample editors and meters.
These follow the same RGBA format and update the scene instantly on theme change.
Colour theming in Audiocube is fully modular - craft anything from a minimal dark mode to a vivid high-contrast skin, all with a single text file.
Here is the content of the default color theme template text file