Make the board yours: skins

A board about a 1940s murder shouldn’t look like a board about your novel’s magic system. In String Theory, the whole look of a board (colors, fonts, background, even how photos are treated) is a skin, and it’s kept separate from your data. Change the skin and nothing about your entities or connections moves. Only the mood does.

A String Theory board dressed in the noir skin, with polaroids and red strings on a corkboard background The same board and the same data. The Noir skin does all of this.

Where to find it

Open Project settings and look under Appearance. You’ll get a gallery of presets to start from, plus knobs for the palette, density, fonts, board background, and photo filters, plus a Skin panel where you can save the whole look under a name and reuse it on any other board in your workspace.

Tips

Start from a preset, then tweak. Four ship today: Noir (kraft paper, cork, and typewriter type), Vanilla (clean, modern, flat), Parchment (aged vellum, oxblood ribbon, and engraved serif), and Jazz Age (champagne invitation stock, brass and claret, and a Deco font). All four are tuned to be legible. Nudge the palette from there instead of starting from a blank slate.
Watch the legibility guardrail. If a color pairing gets hard to read, String Theory warns you before you commit it. Trust it, because a board you can’t read isn’t a fun board.
Save what you like. A skin you’re happy with can be saved to your library and reused on other boards, so a look you invented once becomes a one-click choice later.
Let AI take a swing. Describe the feel you want (“rain-soaked, neon, late-night”) and generate a starting skin from the prompt, then refine by hand.

Skins are data rather than code, which is why a look you build is portable across every board in your workspace.