Themes control the visual personality of Praxis across Song Library, Playback and Player, Settings, and Help Contents. They are not just cosmetic: a good theme can improve readability in dim rehearsal rooms, bright daylight, stage-side setups, and long editing sessions.
Praxis includes a wide range of dark and light themes. Dark themes are great for low-light and high-focus practice. Light themes work better in bright rooms and daytime teaching environments.
Use Settings > Theme to instantly apply any theme. The active theme is saved and used the next time you launch Praxis.
How To Choose A Theme
The best theme is the one that makes the app easiest to read in your actual environment.
- Choose a dark theme for low-light rooms, stage-side use, or late-night practice.
- Choose a light theme for bright rooms, daytime teaching, or heavy metadata editing.
- Favor themes with strong contrast if you rely heavily on lyrics/charts from a distance.
- Favor calmer themes if you spend long sessions editing and organizing.
If you switch between rehearsal spaces often, it can be worth keeping one preferred dark theme and one preferred light theme in mind.
What Themes Affect
Themes apply across the main working surfaces of Praxis:
This means a theme is not just changing one screen. It changes the overall working feel of the app.
Practical Advice
- Test a theme in the Player, not just in Settings.
- Check waveform visibility, queue contrast, and lyrics readability before settling on one.
- If a theme looks attractive but slows reading, it is the wrong theme for real use.
Related Pages
- Playback and Player to evaluate waveform and queue readability
- Lyrics to evaluate chart readability
- Settings for where themes are changed
Theme Gallery
Theme previews appear in Settings > Theme. Use the gallery to compare contrast, waveform visibility, queue readability, and lyric readability in the same place you choose the theme.
If you switch environments often, it helps to settle on one dark theme and one light theme you know are readable.