Deep Dark Sea

Changelog

Updated to Blender 5.0

General

• Slightly more vibrant Y-axis color
• The background of vertical sidebar categories is transparent
• Unselected markers are dimmer
• New colors for auto-clamped Bézier curve handles
• A little more reddish color for Repeat zones, to distinguish from Closure zoness

Panels

• Panels in sidebars are no longer transparent
• Panels in sidebars and in the Properties editor have a slight outline
• The background of the Properties editor is darker to make lighter panels stand out more

Outlines

• Active tabs have a lighter background
• Hovered items in the pie menu have a blue outline
• Selected list items have a dark outline

Changelog

This is a major version change. Theme will look visibly different in most parts, and has moved closer towards the Blenders default dark theme.

Widgets:

• Lighter, slightly more rounded UI elements.
• Active & inactive tabs, and their background in sidebars swapped colors.
• All widgets have a black drop-shadow, similar to default dark theme.

Text:

• Toned down text colors in places that don't need to be very prominent.
• Black text color for edge length and face area in Mesh edit mode.
• Text & icons in the status bar are brighter.
• Tooltip text is slightly larger.

Editors:

• Slightly darker background in Properties editor.
• Sidebar categories and background column are darker in every editor.
• Higher transparency for 3D viewport editor header.
• Preferences editor look was changed, background color is now unified for all regions.
• Preview background in Sequencer is not fully black anymore.
• Node Editors have darker background

Others:

• Secondary gizmo color is slightly darker blue.
• Green color used for object data icons is slightly darker.
• Selected edges & vertices in UV Editor have same color as in 3D Viewport.

4.4/4.5 LTS Updates:

• Correct colors set for new warning states.
• Some colors have been unified in preparation of 5.0 theme refactor.
• Text colors in Sequencer are same as everywhere else.
• Colors for new Geometry Nodes zones.
• Updated collection tag colors to match Sequencer strip colors more.

Animation:

• Selected & active pose bones have same colors as selected & active objects.
• In Graph Editor, selected keyframes and handle points have slightly different color.
• Channels list background in Sequencer is lighter, in preparation of upcoming unified color in 5.0.
• Channel groups have similar color as node groups and meta strips.
• Action & object colors in Dope Sheet are now dim blue to better differentiate from group green.
• Lighter, more saturated color for selected channels.
• Hold keyframes are more visible.
• Unselected keyframes are slightly dimmer gray.
• Handles of keyframes in graph editor are slightly larger.

Changelog

• Syntax highlighting in Text Editor matches default styling of VS Code
• Slightly larger and stronger tooltip text
• Most of the editor headers are noticeably darker
• Higher contrast between alternating lines in Outliner and Spreadsheet
• New color for active editor highlighting

Changelog

• Blender 4.2 updates.
• Lighter background grid in animation editors.
• Slightly more rounding and brighter outlines for UI elements.
• Gradual darkening in nested layout boxes.

Video Sequencer strips overhaul:

• Toned down colors for movie, clip, image, and effect strips to make the selection outline more visible.
• Selected strips are now orange, instead of blue (same color as selected keyframes in Graph Editor).
• New colors for scene, text, and transition strips to make them more distinct.
• Higher contrast between the frame range and the rest of the timeline.

Changelog

• New edit mode theme properties "Edge Selected" and "Face Selected" are now accounted for. Based on selection mode edges and faces will be drawn in different colors to put more emphasis on active elements.
• Tweaked asset shelf colours in 3D viewport.

No changelog for this release.