> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rxresu.me/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Changing appearance and language

> Switch Reactive Resume between light, dark and system themes, change the interface language, and see how the app handles reduced motion.

You can choose how the app looks and which language its menus and buttons use. These settings change the app only. Your resumes always print on white paper, in the language set for each resume.

## Change the theme

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Preferences">
    Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then **Settings**, then **Preferences**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a theme under Appearance">
    * **Light**: a light background all the time.
    * **Dark**: a dark background all the time.
    * **System**: follows your device's light or dark setting and switches when it does. This is the default.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The change applies at once. Reactive Resume remembers it in this browser, so another device or browser keeps its own choice.

<Frame caption="The Preferences page">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/reactiveresume/Frn-Cva3VDpmsDcj/images/guides/changing-appearance-and-language/preferences-page.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=Frn-Cva3VDpmsDcj&q=85&s=cfce2f738e706f61ffdac19b3af4752c" alt="The Preferences page with Light, Dark and System theme tiles under Appearance, an English language picker under Language, and a Motion note" width="1440" height="910" data-path="images/guides/changing-appearance-and-language/preferences-page.webp" />
</Frame>

### Other ways to switch

* Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar, point to **Theme**, and choose **Light**, **Dark** or **System**.
* Press <kbd>⌘</kbd> <kbd>K</kbd> (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd> <kbd>K</kbd> on Windows and Linux), choose **Change theme to…**, then pick a theme.

<Frame caption="The theme options in the account menu">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/reactiveresume/Frn-Cva3VDpmsDcj/images/guides/changing-appearance-and-language/account-menu-theme.webp?fit=max&auto=format&n=Frn-Cva3VDpmsDcj&q=85&s=f5267a5a45158832ad4ed12ffd15ae93" alt="The account menu opened from the sidebar with Settings, Language, Theme and Sign out, and a Theme submenu listing Light, Dark and System with System checked" width="820" height="500" data-path="images/guides/changing-appearance-and-language/account-menu-theme.webp" />
</Frame>

## Change the interface language

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Preferences">
    Go to **Settings → Preferences**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a language under Language">
    Open the picker and choose from more than 50 languages. You can type to filter the list.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The page reloads in the new language. Like the theme, the choice is saved in this browser.

You can also change it from your name in the sidebar (**Language**), or with <kbd>⌘</kbd> <kbd>K</kbd> and **Change language to…**.

The interface language doesn't translate your resume. Each resume has its own **Language** setting in the **Page** group of the editor's **Design** mode, which sets the section titles and date words on the page. See [Set the language](/guides/selecting-page-format#set-the-language).

<Tip>
  Spotted a wrong or missing translation? Select **Help translate** under the language picker to suggest a fix on
  Crowdin. See [Translations](/contributing/translations).
</Tip>

## Reduce motion

Reactive Resume has no motion switch of its own. It follows your operating system's reduced-motion setting: turn that on, and the app replaces movement with simple fades. Nothing in the app animates on its own without you doing something first.

## Related guides

* [Using the command bar](/guides/using-the-command-bar): change settings and jump anywhere from the keyboard.
* [Updating your profile](/guides/updating-your-profile): your name, photo, username and email.


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