Styling & Themes

DocuShark gives you flexible control over how your diagrams look — from individual shape styles to app-wide themes.

Themes

Switch between Dark, Light, and System — and build your own colour theme — in Settings → Appearance.

The theme affects the entire application — toolbar, panels, canvas background, and the grid. Your diagrams themselves use the colors you choose, so they look the same regardless of theme. For the full theme builder (custom colours, presets, density, and more), see Appearance & Customization.

Shape Styling

Every shape has styling properties you can adjust in the Property Panel:

Property	What It Controls
Fill	Background color and opacity
Stroke	Border color, width, and style (solid, dashed, dotted)
Shadow	Drop shadow color, blur, and offset
Opacity	Overall shape transparency
Text	Font, size, color, alignment

Select a shape and tweak these in the Property Panel on the right side of the screen.

Style Profiles — your branding kit

Think of a style profile less as a "saved preset" and more as a branding kit: it remembers how a shape type should look — fill, stroke, font, shadow, icon treatment — so a whole document (or every document you make) can share one consistent visual identity instead of you restyling shapes by hand every time.

Saving a Style Profile

1. Style a shape exactly how you want it (fill, stroke, font, shadow, etc.)
2. Right-click the shape → Save Style
3. Give your profile a name — something like your team or product name works well, since this is the kit you'll reuse everywhere

Applying a Style Profile

1. Select one or more shapes
2. Open the Style dropdown in the Property Panel
3. Choose a saved profile — all the styling applies instantly

Because a profile can remember per-shape-type styling, applying the same kit across a mixed selection (rectangles, connectors, text) gives you one cohesive look in a single click, instead of restyling each shape type separately.

Managing Profiles

Go to Settings → Style Profiles to:

• View your saved profiles
• Delete profiles you no longer need
• Toggle Hide Default Style Profiles to hide the 5 built-in profiles
• Control whether icon and label settings are included when saving profiles

Using your profiles on more than one device

A style profile starts out on the device you made it on. When you're signed in to a workspace you can share one across every device you use:

1. Right-click the profile in the Style Profiles panel
2. Choose Sync to workspace

A synced profile shows a small cloud marker, and appears automatically the next time you sign in to that workspace somewhere else. Editing a synced profile updates it for everyone in the workspace.

To pull down changes someone else made, use Refresh in the panel header. Profiles refresh when you ask them to rather than continuously — your styles are a working set, and having them change underneath you mid-edit would be worse than a button.

Stop syncing moves a profile back to being yours alone. It stays on the device you're using and is removed from the workspace, so other people lose their copy — you'll be asked to confirm.

Profiles you haven't synced stay put

Existing profiles are never uploaded automatically, including when you sign in for the first time. Syncing is always something you choose.

The Studio — see what a profile actually does

A style profile remembers how each kind of shape should look, not one style. That makes a mature profile genuinely valuable — and, until now, invisible: two profiles that behave completely differently both showed up as a single coloured square.

Right-click a profile and choose Open in Studio to see inside it. Each row is a set of shapes that style identically — rectangles, connectors, ERD entities, swimlanes — drawn as they'd actually look under this profile, with every style that set can receive listed underneath:

• Saved — the profile sets this. Applying it changes the shape.
• Inherited — the profile has no value here, so shapes keep their own.

That distinction is the useful one. It's the difference between a profile that genuinely knows how your swimlanes should look and one that will only ever paint them a fill colour. The header sums it up: Tuned for 3 of 10 shape sets.

To drop a style back to inherited, hover it and choose the eraser. This is the only way to remove something from a profile — saving into one is additive, so before the Studio a style could be overwritten but never taken out again. Fill, stroke, stroke width and opacity are always present and can't be removed.

Built-in profiles open read-only.

How profiles count toward storage

Synced profiles are stored in your workspace, so they count toward its storage allowance under Configuration — its own arc alongside Documents and Files in the storage ring on Documents Home.

In practice this is a rounding error: a profile holds a few dozen style values, so a thousand of them is a fraction of a megabyte. The arc exists so nothing in your workspace is unaccounted for, not because styling is expected to compete with your documents for space.

Color Palettes

Every color control in DocuShark opens the same picker — shape fill and stroke, text color, highlight, and table cell backgrounds. Whatever you learn in one place works in the others, and your recent colors follow you between the canvas and your writing.

Clicking a color swatch or its hex readout opens the picker, which offers:

• A clearing option first — No fill or Automatic on a shape, Default or No highlight in prose. It is always the top entry, whichever control you opened.
• The palette — ten color families in five shades each.
• Recent colors, remembered across sessions.
• A hex field, always showing the color currently in effect. It accepts #ff6600, ff6600, #f60, rgb(255, 102, 0), or a name like crimson, and stores whichever you type as standard hex.
• Custom — expands a shade-and-hue picker for choosing a color by eye, along with lighter and darker variations of it.

Automatic deserves a note: a shape's text color can be set to adapt to whatever it sits on — white on a dark fill, black on a light one — so recoloring a shape keeps its label readable without you revisiting it. It always exports as black in PDFs.

Default Styles

Set default styling for new shapes so you don't have to restyle every shape you create:

1. Go to Settings → General → Default Shape Style Profile
2. Select a style profile from the dropdown
3. All new shapes you create will use that profile's styling

You can also set the Default Connector Type (Orthogonal or Straight) in the same settings area.

Tips

• Batch styling: Select multiple shapes with Shift+Click, then change a property — it applies to all selected shapes
• Consistency: Create style profiles early in your project for a consistent look
• Dark mode diagrams: If your diagram will be viewed on both light and dark backgrounds, avoid very dark fills — use medium tones instead