Looks and house style | Rodeo Docs

A look restyles all of Rodeo at once, its colours, fonts, spacing and motion, so you can work in the setting that suits you, and a house style gives your whole team a shared starting point without taking that choice away.

Settings, Appearance tab: eight look cards with Open Range selected, its adjustments for Mode, Accent, Density, Fonts, Page frame and Motion, the Your workspaces list, and the "Apply to: Only Harbor Studio / All my workspaces" bar

The eight looks

Look	Fonts	Spacing and feel	Starts in
Field Notes	Newsreader serif	Comfortable, calm motion	Light
Switchboard	Geist	Compact, instant	Dark
Open Range	Bricolage Grotesque	Comfortable, floating page, springy, a colour per space	Light
Darkroom	Manrope	Default spacing, instant	Dark
Studio Grid	Archivo	Compact, instant	Light
Soft Focus	Literata serif	Comfortable, calm motion	Light
High Contrast	Atkinson Hyperlegible	Comfortable, 7:1 text contrast	Light
Rodeo Classic	Space Grotesk	Default spacing, the original Rodeo	Your device's setting

Do it

Choose your look

Click Members & settings at the bottom of the sidebar, then the Appearance tab.

Under Look, click a card. Rodeo previews it straight away, across the whole app.

A bar appears at the bottom: Apply to:

Only Harbor Studio (your current workspace's name) keeps the look in this workspace only.

All my workspaces uses it everywhere you work.

If other workspaces already have their own look, Rodeo asks whether to Replace them or Keep them.

Pressing Esc, or leaving the page without answering, applies the look to the current workspace only.

Adjust it

Under Adjust and the look's name, fine-tune it. Each change previews at once and asks Apply to: again.

Setting	Choices
Mode	Light, Dark, System
Accent	The look's own colour, or Cobalt, Green, Amber, Pink or Blue
Density	Compact, Default, Comfortable
Fonts	The font pairing of any of the eight looks
Page frame	Flush, Floating
Motion	Calm, Instant, Springy

Reset to and the look's name puts every adjustment back.

Switch between light and dark

Click the moon or sun button at the bottom of the sidebar, or press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) and run Toggle dark mode. You can also set Mode in Appearance. Mode changes save straight away, with no Apply to: question.

See what each workspace uses

Your workspaces, on the right of the Appearance tab, lists each workspace with its look and where it comes from: only here, all workspaces, house style or default. Click Switch back next to Use workspace style to drop your own look for this workspace and follow the house style again.

House style

The house style is the look everyone in the workspace sees until they choose their own. Workspaces start in Rodeo Classic.

As a workspace owner or admin, open Members & settings → Members.

Scroll to House style.

Pick a look and adjust it. It saves straight away for everyone who hasn't picked their own.

The House style section of workspace settings, "The look everyone in this workspace sees until they choose their own.", with the eight look cards and the adjustments

Shared forms are shown in the house style too, so people filling them in see your brand. See Forms.

Tips and limits

Your look follows you. It's saved to your account, so the web app and the desktop app always match. See Desktop app.

What wins: your look for this workspace, then your look for all workspaces, then the house style.

High Contrast keeps its own accent so text stays at 7:1 contrast; accent choices don't apply to it.

Open Range colours each space. Pages in different spaces get their own accent, unless you pick an accent yourself. See Spaces.

Guests can choose a look for the workspace they're a guest in, but not for all workspaces.

Published sites have their own reading style, in each visitor's light or dark mode, whatever look your workspace uses. See Sites.

Looks are available on every plan.

Ideas

Night shift. Tunde edits video late, so he picks Switchboard for all his workspaces, while the rest of the studio stays on the house style.

Brand the workspace. Femi sets the house style to Field Notes with the Amber accent, so the studio's workspace and its shared forms feel like Harbor Studio.

Easier reading. Ada picks High Contrast with Comfortable density for long proofreading sessions.