Appearance
Colour palette, light and dark, and typography.
Bristlenose's interface can be recoloured, switched between light and dark, and — on the Mac — retyped. These all live in one place: Settings → Appearance.
Colour palette
Choose the palette the report and interface are drawn in:
- Default — matches your Mac's system colours.
- Edo — a warm palette of washi-paper backgrounds and Prussian-blue ink, drawn from Edo-period Japanese prints.
macOS app
Open Settings (⌘,), go to the Appearance tab, and pick a palette under Colour palette.
Command line
Pass --palette when you serve a report:
bristlenose serve --palette edo
Or open Settings (the gear icon) in the report itself and choose under Colour palette. You can also set BRISTLENOSE_PALETTE=edo.
Light and dark
The interface follows your system's light or dark setting by default. To fix it one way:
macOS app
In Settings → Appearance, set Application appearance to Light or Dark — or leave it on Use system appearance.
Command line
Set BRISTLENOSE_COLOR_SCHEME to light, dark, or auto:
export BRISTLENOSE_COLOR_SCHEME=dark
Typography (macOS app)
The Mac app draws the interface in SF Pro, the system typeface, so it sits naturally alongside native windows. To use the same Inter typeface as the web report instead, switch Typography in Settings → Appearance. In your browser the report always uses Inter.
Setting the interface language lives in the same tab — see Languages.