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Hello Community
Just dropping in because we have some huge news to share… we’re delivering an early access preview of our highest requested feature, a dark theme (and a new light theme as well) to Jira Cloud products.
We’ll be providing early access to themes in Jira labs, which means you get to test it out early and help us make the feature the best it can be. Once you’ve opted in to the experience, you’ll be able to switch between our new light and dark themes. We really need to call out that this is still a work in progress and you can opt out at any time.
We want it to be the best experience possible for the Atlassian community, and who better to help us do that than all of you?
If you’re a bit of a night owl or you’re in dark mode on your other work tools and you want consistency, then Jira is ready to join you on the dark side. Some other awesome dark theme benefits include:
reducing eye fatigue
improved accessibility for people who are sensitive to light
lower energy consumption of some devices
it looks really cool
If working in light mode is more your style, use our new light theme. You might notice a few changes to our light theme as we’re updating the contrast across our colors to help with accessibility and usability.
The feature is available via Jira Labs on your Personal settings page. If you’d like to try it out:
Go to Settings > Personal Jira settings.
Scroll down the page to Jira labs.
Opt in to Light and dark themes using the toggle.
At any point, you can return to the original Jira colors by opting out of Light and dark themes, just switch the toggle back off.
If you’re an admin with more than 10 users on your site and you don’t want this feature available in your instance, please contact our support team.
The majority of our products are looking pretty sweet in the new themes, but there are a few bits and bobs that are definitely a work in progress. It won’t affect all our users, but depending on your setup, those areas might look a little odd during the early access period.
If you find parts of Jira that don’t look quite right with the new themes, please give us feedback through the Share your feedback button on your Personal settings page.
The Share your feedback button located on your Personal settings page.
If you’re working in your project and notice the top navigation bar is a custom color that isn’t compatible with the new dark theme, your admin may have changed the site colors. You’ll need to contact your admin to revert the colors, then they’ll work with the new themes.
To revert the colors of a Jira site and make it compatible with the new themes, an admin will need to:
Go to Settings > System.
Under USER INTERFACE, select Look and feel.
Under the Navigation colors section, and next Background select Revert
All these things will continue to work normally, they just might look odd while we make them compatible with the new themes. If you’re experiencing any of these bugs and you feel like they are too distracting or disruptive, you can opt out of Light and dark themes using the toggle on your Personal settings page and return to the original Jira colors.
The Editor experience
The Editor experience affects all of our products, specifically when viewing and creating issues and Pro-Forma for Jira Service Management. The areas that we are working on are:
Viewing and editing panels
Editing Tables
Marketplace apps
Marketplace apps don’t display in the new dark theme yet (as you can see in the image below). We’re working with Marketplace Partners right now and supporting them with tools to update their apps over coming months. You should expect to see the first apps in dark theme around the beta period — no need to bug your favourite app developer yet!
Are you a Marketplace Partner? Check out all the info here
Embedded Confluence experience
If you're embedding Confluence pages in any Jira products, they might look a bit like a Zebra. We’ll fix it though, we promise! This bug primarily affects knowledge based articles in Jira Service Management.
Illustrations and images
We have over 1000 images in Jira Cloud products! Unfortunately, none of them have custom dark theme versions. Illustrations and images in your Jira products might look a little odd (particularly in the new dark theme) while we work to identify all the custom images and create darker versions of each one.
The workflow editor
We're still working on making the workflow editor compatible with the new themes.
Data visualisations and charts
Visualising data and viewing charts, you'll encounter scenarios that need some improvements to the contrast and legibility.
Before I sign off, I’d love to give a shout-out to the many teams across Atlassian that helped bring this much-anticipated feature to life. We’re all so excited to see it out in the wild!
We’ll keep you posted on any updates so like and follow this post to follow the journey.
If you have any immediate thoughts or questions, you can share it in the comment thread below
Thanks for reading,
Amira Badran
Product Manager, Jira Software
Amira Badran
Atlassian TeamProduct Manager
Atlassian
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