Appearance (Dark Mode) ↩

• Preferences Window
• Preferences Editor
• Scripting

RoboFont supports dynamic appearance starting from RF4.4. This page offers some tips to improve your experience and the experience of your users.

Preferences Window

By default RoboFont follows the system settings and updates the appearance instantly without the need to reboot the application. User can override the default behaviour in the Miscellaneous section of the Preferences Window.

Every section of the Preferences Window where color can be defined, provides two separate column for light and dark mode.

• Glyph View Preferences
• Space Center Preferences
• Font Overview Preferences
• Python Preferences

Preferences Editor

Every color key in the Preferences Editor has a .dark variant for dark mode. Syntax highlighting colors are grouped under PyDETokenColors for light mode and PyDETokenColors.dark for dark mode.

Scripting

mojo.UI provides the appearanceColorKey() function to verify which color key is at the moment in charge of a specific color. For example, if the application is in dark mode, appearanceColorKey("PyDEBackgroundColor") will return "PyDEBackgroundColor.dark"

mojo.UI provides the inDarkMode() function to check in which mode the application is. The function returns a boolean.

mojo.subscriber provides a appearanceChanged() callback that allows tools to react instantly to changes to the appearance settings.

from mojo.subscriber import Subscriber, registerRoboFontSubscriber
from mojo.UI import inDarkMode

class Appearence(Subscriber):

    def roboFontAppearanceChanged(self):
        answer = 'yes' if inDarkMode() else 'no'
        print(f"Are we in dark mode? {answer}")


if __name__ == '__main__':
    registerRoboFontSubscriber(Appearence)