Themes and fonts

Reskin Griddler with one of 24 themes, pick the terminal font and size, and hide the menu bar or the mascot.

Where: Settings→Appearance→Theme

A theme colors the terminals and the whole window around them. It applies the moment you pick it, including in popped-out panes.

Try themes on with the Picker

Open Settings (the gear at the right end of the top bar) and find Appearance.

Click 🎨 Picker. Every theme shows as a tiny terminal.

Hover a theme to try it on the whole window. Click to keep it.

Esc, ✕, or a click outside puts your old theme back. To pick by name instead, use the Theme dropdown next to the Picker.

Hovering a theme reskins the whole window at once, terminals included:

Dark	Light
Tokyo Night (default), Tokyo Storm, VS Code Dark	Tokyo Day
Catppuccin Mocha, Catppuccin Macchiato, Catppuccin Frappé	Catppuccin Latte
Rosé Pine, Rosé Moon	Rosé Dawn
Solarized Dark	Solarized Light
Gruvbox Dark, Gruvbox Hard	Gruvbox Light
Dracula, Nord, Kanagawa, Everforest, Monokai
Synthwave (GriddlerOS), Cyberpunk, Matrix

The green "needs you" border and the amber "working" color come from the theme, so they shift a little from one theme to the next.

Setting	What it does	Default
Terminal font	Cascadia Code, Consolas, JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Source Code Pro, or Courier New.	Default (Menlo / Consolas / DejaVu Sans Mono)
Terminal font size	8 to 24.	12

Both apply to new panes. Panes already open keep their font. A font only shows if it's installed on your machine.

Terminal renderer picks how panes are drawn. It applies to open panes right away.

Choice	Use it when
Auto — GPU when available	Almost always. This is the default.
GPU (WebGL)	You want the GPU and nothing else.
DOM (compatibility)	Text draws wrong or flickers. It's slower with many busy panes.

The line under the setting says what's actually drawing, for example N of M panes on the GPU — the rest fell back to DOM (see the log).

Hide the menu bar removes File, Edit, View, and Window. Press Alt to show it for a moment. Windows and Linux only; macOS keeps its menu bar at the top of the screen.
Topbar mascot sets the character on the top bar: Roaming — walks, dances and sits, Sitting — drag him where you want him, or Hidden. He's your painted character, or its doll until you paint one; see the game. The same character can sit on your desktop as the desktop pet.