Themes and colours

Switch Mooring between Light and Dark, change any colour and save it to a file, and give the terminal a theme of its own.

Mooring has one look, in light and dark, built from your Mac's own colours and accent colour. You can change any colour in it, and give the terminal its own theme, for every tab, one project or a single tab.

Dark, as the Mac is in the evening, with Claude at work.

Light, Dark or System

Open Settings ▸ Appearance and choose System, Light or Dark. System follows your Mac, so Mooring changes when your Mac does. The terminal changes with the window, straight away, and running sessions carry on.

Change any colour

Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Colours lists every colour Mooring uses, grouped as backgrounds, text, accent and selection, status and terminal.

Choose Light or Dark at the top. Each side has its own colours.
Click a colour and pick a new one. Mooring changes as you drag.

A colour you've changed shows in bold, with ↺ to put it back. Reset All puts every colour back.

Mooring's Settings on the Appearance pane, with the colour editor open. The colours changed for the navy-and-apricot look are marked with ↺ beside each, ready to put back one by one or all at once.

To keep your colours, click Save…. That writes them to a file. On another Mac, click Load… and choose the file.

Mooring's main window in a custom look, deep navy with an apricot accent: the sidebar, the terminal where Claude is at work, and the backlog's cards all take the new colours.

Give the terminal its own theme

Open Settings ▸ Terminal and click a theme. It applies at once, and running sessions recolour in place.

Match Mooring, the default, uses Mooring's own terminal colours, light or dark.
Ghostty Default uses the terminal's built-in colours.
Terminal.app's themes: Basic, Pro, Homebrew, Ocean, Grass, Man Page, Novel, Red Sands, Silver Aerogel and Solid Colors.

Mooring's Settings on the Terminal pane, listing terminal themes with a preview of each. Homebrew is selected: green text on black.

Make your own

Select a theme and click Duplicate, or click + to start a new one.
Change its colours.
Use the ⋯ menu to rename it, delete it, or Save to File… to share it. Load from File… adds a theme from a file.

One project or one tab

A project: right-click it in the sidebar, choose Get Info…, and pick a Terminal theme.
A tab: right-click the tab and choose Terminal Theme, or choose View ▸ Terminal Theme for the selected tab.

The closest choice wins: a tab's own theme, then its project's, then the one in Settings. A new tab takes the theme of the tab you opened it from. A small colour chip marks a project or tab with a theme of its own.

Claude Code's own colours

Claude Code draws some text in colours from its own theme, not the terminal's. If Claude's theme is dark and the terminal is light, some of Claude's text is hard to read, and the status bar shows Claude colours: /theme → Auto.

To fix it, type /theme in Claude and choose Auto (match terminal). Claude then follows the terminal, light or dark. Mooring never changes Claude's settings for you.