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LightDark

is an option for notebooks that specifies whether to display notebook contents in light or dark mode.

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LightDark

LightDark

is an option for notebooks that specifies whether to display notebook contents in light or dark mode.

Details

  • The default global setting is LightDarkAutomatic.
  • LightDark can also be applied as an option to Rasterize. The default behavior uses the LightDark setting of the notebook where the evaluation is running.
  • LightDark can take the following settings:
  • "Dark"display notebook contents in dark mode
    "Light"display notebook contents in light mode
    Automaticdisplay notebook contents in the mode set globally in your operating system

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

Query the mode of the current notebook:

Create a dark mode notebook:

Control the light-dark setting for Rasterize:

Scope  (3)

LightDark affects the display of text and equations:

LightDark affects the default colors used by 2D graphics:

LightDark affects the default colors of labels and lines in 3D graphics:

The colors produced by lighting effects for polygons and shapes are not affected:

Properties & Relations  (3)

LightDark affects how LightDarkSwitched directives are displayed:

LightDark settings affect how ThemeColor directives are displayed:

LightDark"Dark" normally has no effect on explicit colors:

When LightDarkAutoColorRules is used, explicit colors can be remapped to preserve contrast:

Wolfram Research (2025), LightDark, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html (updated 2025).

Text

Wolfram Research (2025), LightDark, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html (updated 2025).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2025. "LightDark." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2025. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2025). LightDark. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_lightdark, author="Wolfram Research", title="{LightDark}", year="2025", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_lightdark, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={LightDark}, year={2025}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LightDark.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}