--- title: "Dark theme is here" page_name: "Dark theme is here" type: "blog" slug: "dark-theme" published_at: "2021-01-20" modified_at: "2025-04-24" url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/dark-theme" canonical: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/dark-theme" markdown_url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/dark-theme.md" lang: "en" excerpt: "You asked, and we listened! We're excited to announce a dark theme mode for Dashboards (New)! Dashboard (New) offers a host of new visualization types, like honeycombs, time series, combination graphs, maps and more. With customizable templated dashboards, observing your..." taxonomy_blog_category: - "DevOps & IT Operations" --- [ All blogs ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog "blog")[DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations) # Dark theme is here [Abhinav Khanna](#blog-author-block-19)[Ruchi Ookalkar](#blog-author-block-358) January 20, 2021 1 min read [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations) ##### Table of contents You asked, and we listened! We’re excited to announce a dark theme mode for Dashboards (New)! Dashboard (New) offers a host of new visualization types, like honeycombs, time series, combination graphs, maps and more. With customizable templated dashboards, observing your system is easier than ever before. Dark theme is designed to help you do all of these actions comfortably by reducing strain to your eyes in low light environments. So you can continue to monitor and troubleshoot your systems without hurting your eyes. When designing dark mode we focused on three key areas: - **Readability**: When choosing colors, we wanted to minimize eye fatigue and use colors that offered enough contrast while being comfortable to the eyes. We applied this principle to all the text elements and all the graphical elements on the dashboard. - **Reducing Cognitive Load**: We wanted to help users get to the essential information as quickly as possible. We did this by using design elements such as color, font sizes, space and visual weight to make sure the correct elements on a dashboard stand out at any given time. - **Data-Ink Ratio:** We wanted the data to be the highlight of the dashboard. We focussed on muting the secondary elements and reducing whitespaces in the product to make sure users could see the information on dashboards clearly. With the new theme you also get access to higher contrast custom color palettes, that will make your visualizations pop on every monitor. The color palettes are designed for your charting use cases based on the type of data you wish to display. The palettes support categorical, sequential and diverging in addition to an accessible color-blind friendly option. You can enable the dark theme by accessing the options in the kebab menu on the top-right. ### Article Tags - [DevOps & IT Operations](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops-it-operations) Abhinav Khanna Abhinav Khanna is Technical Product Manager working on Sumo’s Kubernetes Monitoring and Troubleshooting product. Before Sumo Logic, Abhinav worked at Palantir Technologies and ran his own Ad Tech Startup on top of Kubernetes called Ads on Top. Ruchi Ookalkar [](https://www.sumologic.com/feed "RSS Feed")[](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Dark%20theme%20is%20here&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fdark-theme "X")[](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fdark-theme "Facebook")[](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fdark-theme "Linkedin") [Previous blog How to monitor Amazon DynamoDB performance](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/aws-dynamodb-monitoring)[Next blog Best practices to monitor Cloudflare performance](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/cloudflare-monitoring) People who read this also enjoyed [ Sumo Logic AWS Region European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available June 2, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/sumo-logic-aws-region-european-sovereign-cloud-generally-available)[ How to secure cloud workloads without building a full-scale SOC April 30, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/secure-cloud-workloads-with-limited-resources)[ Join operator and Query Agent for smarter log analysis April 22, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/using-the-join-operator)[ 92% of security leaders say their SIEM is effective. 51% say it’s exceptional. What’s living in that gap? April 16, 2026 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/from-effective-to-exceptional-siem) [AI Instructions](https://www.sumologic.com/ai-instructions.md)