How to design your own keyboard theme

Updated October 2026 · ~5 min read

You look at your keyboard more than at almost anything else on your phone. The theme editor lets you make it yours: the colors of the keys, a gradient or one of your photos behind them, the shape of every key and the font the letters are drawn in.

Open the theme editor

Themes are made in the app, where there is room for a proper editor, and then worn by the keyboard everywhere you type.

1. Go to the colors Open the app, tap the Settings tab, then Appearance.
2. Find Your themes Under Color, below the ready-made colors, is a line called Your themes.
3. Tap Create The editor opens with a live keyboard at the top. Every change you make shows on it straight away.

Give the theme a name in Theme name while you are there. It is what you will see under its tile later.

Pick a starting point

An empty page is the hardest place to start, so Start from offers a few looks to change rather than build from nothing:

• Midnight: deep navy with periwinkle highlights and round keys.
• Paper: warm cream keys in a serif font, with darker colors of its own for dark mode.
• Neon: near-black, green letters, pink function keys, square outlined keys in a code font.
• Sunset: an orange-to-violet gradient behind see-through pill keys.

The same row also has the app's ready-made colors, so you can begin from the theme you already use, and Surprise me, which picks a random combination each time you tap it. Keep tapping until something catches your eye, then adjust it.

Choose the background

The background is everything behind the keys. Background has three styles:

• Solid: one color.
• Gradient: one color at the top fading into another at the bottom. Pick each with Top and Bottom.
• Photo: one of your own pictures. Tap Choose photo and pick it from your library.

Over a photo, the Dim slider lays the background color over the picture so the keys stand out from it. A busy photo usually wants more. With a gradient or a photo, Key opacity lets the background show through the keys, too.

Color the keys and Spark

Under Keys there are two kinds of key, each with a Fill and a Text color:

• Letter keys: the keys with letters on them.
• Function keys: Shift, Delete, 123, Return and the buttons on the bar above the keys.

Text starts on Auto, which picks dark or light letters, whichever reads better on the fill you chose. Pick a color of your own and the editor checks it: if it is too close to its key, you will see Hard to read with a Fix button that sets it back to Auto.

Spark & accent colors the Spark key, the selected pill in the row above the keys and the other highlights. Choose any color you like; the app works out the rest of the gradient and keeps the icon on the key readable.

Key shape and font

Corners sets how round every key is, from sharp to fully rounded:

Soft is the keyboard's usual shape. Turn on Key outlines for a thin line around each key in its own text color, which suits dark themes and see-through keys.

Font changes the letters on the keys. Next to the app's own font and your system font there are eight more, from clean and modern to handwritten:

The full list is Nunito, Inter, Lora, Playfair, JetBrains Mono, Caveat, Fredoka and Space Grotesk. A theme's font dresses the keyboard only; the app keeps the font you chose in its settings.

Light and dark mode

By default a theme looks the same in light and dark mode. To give dark mode colors of its own, turn on Different colors in dark mode at the top of the editor. Then use the Light and Dark switch below it to edit each one; the preview shows whichever you are working on.

Dark mode starts as a darker copy of your light colors, so you only need to adjust what you want to change.

Save it and use it

1. Save Tap Save at the top of the editor. Your theme appears as a tile under Your themes, next to any others you have made.
2. Use it Tap Use this theme at the bottom. It saves your changes too, and the keyboard wears the theme the next time it opens, in every app.
3. Change it later Long-press its tile to Edit, Duplicate or Delete it. Duplicating is the easy way to try a variation without losing the original.

You can keep up to 10 themes. Tapping one of the ready-made colors switches back to it; your themes stay saved.

FAQ

Is designing a keyboard theme free?

Designing and saving themes is free on every plan, so you can try the whole editor. Using a theme of your own on the keyboard takes Pro.

Is my background photo uploaded anywhere?

No. The photo is copied into the app's own storage on your phone at a smaller size and is never sent to us. Deleting the theme deletes the copy.

Why does my keyboard use a different font than the one I picked?

Not every font has the letters of every language. When the font you picked does not cover your keyboard language, the keyboard uses the system font for it instead, and the editor tells you so under the font.

How many themes can I keep?

Up to 10. Long-press a theme to edit, duplicate or delete it.