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# Themes
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Users on your instance can select a theme for their profile from any css files present in the `web/assets/themes` directory.
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GoToSocial comes with some theme files already, but you can add more yourself by doing the following:
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1. Create a file in `web/assets/themes` called (for example) `new-theme.css`.
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2. (Optional) Include the following comment at the top of your theme file to title and describe your theme:
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```css
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/*
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theme-title: My New Theme
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theme-description: This is an example theme
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*/
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```
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You can use any text you like for these fields, but bear in mind whatever you write here will appear in the settings panel to help users when selecting a theme, so keep it short and sweet.
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3. Fill out your custom CSS in the rest of the file. You can use one of the existing CSS files to guide you. Also see [this page](../user_guide/custom_css.md) for some rough guidelines about how to write accessible CSS.
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4. Restart your instance so that the new CSS file is picked up.
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!!! info
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If you're using Docker for your deployment, you can mount theme files from the host machine into your GoToSocial `web/assets/themes` directory instead, by including entries for them in the `volumes` section of your Docker configuration.
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For example, say you've created a theme on your host machine at `~/gotosocial/my-themes/new-theme.css`, you could mount that theme into the GoToSocial Docker container in the following way:
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```yaml
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volumes:
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[.... some other volume entries ...]
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- "~/gotosocial/my-themes/new-theme.css:/gotosocial/web/assets/themes/new-theme.css"
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```
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Bear in mind if you mount an entire directory to `/gotosocial/web/assets/themes` instead of mounting individual theme files, you'll override the default themes.
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