Dark Mode

What Is Dark Mode?

Dark Mode in Reunion

Disabling Dark Mode in Reunion

What Is Dark Mode?

Apple introduced dark mode or dark appearance in macOS Mojave 10.14. Dark mode changes the color scheme of your Mac's display to have a much 'dimmer' appearance than in the normal light mode. The purpose of dark mode mode is to cause less eye strain from the brighter colors, especially at night.

Your Mac can be configured to change over to dark mode automatically at night or your Mac can be in dark mode all the time. Dark mode options can be set in the System Settings window under Appearance.

Click here for more information about Apple's dark appearance.

Dark Mode in Reunion

Reunion supports dark mode. This means that when your Mac is in dark mode Reunion's windows and interface elements will have a much darker appearance.


However, since Reunion gives you the ability to publish documents (reports, books, and charts) and customize colors (free-form text, sex coloring, child status, and color tags), there are some elements in Reunion’s user interface that will not become darker when your Mac is in dark mode.

The elements that will not change in appearance in dark mode are listed below.

Buttons and list items for people that are colorized using the Sex colors set in the Family View Settings window will look the same in dark mode as they do in light mode...

Editors/viewers that have a white canvas representing a white ‘paper’ medium...

Free-form text fields that allow for colorization of text will have the same light or white background in dark or light mode...


In addition, there are two settings in the Family View Settings window will be ignored when in dark mode, and "standard" dark mode colors will be used instead...

Disabling Dark Mode in Reunion

If you prefer not use Reunion in dark mode, but you have dark mode enabled on your Mac, you can disable dark mode in Reunion.

To do this, choose Reunion > Settings > General and check the Disable "dark mode" checkbox. You should quit and relaunch Reunion after making a change to this setting.

This setting is global and will apply to all of Reunion’s windows and documents.