Interface

What this page is

Settings → Interface decides what is on the screen at all times — and what you can hide. Five controls in one column: the look the app is painted in, how big the window is drawn, and three things you can take off the screen.

How to set it up

1. Open Settings → Interface in the left menu. There is no Save button here: every control applies the moment you change it, and is remembered for the next launch.
2. Theme — pick one of five entries in the list on the right. Four of them are real looks, and they run from the darkest to the lightest, so you can walk down the list and stop where your eyes are comfortable; Same as the system stands apart from that scale and comes first:
   • Same as the system — takes the light or dark setting from Windows and gives you Night or Day accordingly. It never picks Graphite or Parchment: those two are yours to choose by hand. While this one is picked, the app turns with Windows, including when Windows switches on a schedule.
   • Night — the dark, almost black look the app has always had. This is what you get until you choose something else.
   • Graphite — dark as well, but a softer grey instead of near black.
   • Day — light.
   • Parchment — light and warm, closer to paper than to white.
3. The theme changes on the spot. Nothing reloads and nothing restarts, so a module settings page you have open keeps whatever you have already typed into it — it is safe to try a different look in the middle of setting something up. Your choice is remembered, and the next launch opens the window already painted in it.
4. What the theme covers: the app window and every module page inside it — settings pages and the tiles on the control panel. It stops at the edge of the app. Overlays you have added to OBS keep the look you gave them, and so does the widget preview inside a settings page. That is a decision, not a gap; the last section says why.
5. Interface scale — pick a value from the list on the right. The steps are 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 125, 150, 175 and 200 per cent. It is the same scale that Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus change, and Ctrl+0 puts it back to 100%; the list follows the keyboard, so it always shows the value you are looking at. If the window ends up on a value that is not one of the steps, the list adds that value as an entry of its own, in its place by size, instead of rounding it — so what you read is what you have. The scale is kept with the window and survives a restart.
6. Log console — the strip at the bottom of the window, titled System Logs Console. Switch it off and the strip goes away; it is shown by default. Only its header is on screen at first — click the header to unfold it. Once unfolded, the height is yours to set: drag the top edge of the strip. The height is remembered, the unfolded state is not, so every launch starts with the strip folded. While you are reading it the console holds its place instead of jumping to the newest line; it follows the newest line again once you scroll back to the bottom.
7. What the console shows is what has happened since this launch, and Clear console empties that view only. Records go to the log file either way — hiding the strip does not stop logging, and clearing it does not erase anything. The folder with those files is on Settings → Core, and the guide "Core" is the one that describes it.
8. AI credits and plans in the sidebar — this one hides the AI CREDITS counter and the FREE / LITE / PRO / ULTRA row in the left panel. Everything on your computer works without them, so with no AI in use there is nothing to watch there. Shown by default. What the credits are and where they go is the guide "Account and Credits".
9. Living background — the soft glow and drifting particles behind the interface. Turn it off for a calmer look, or to leave every frame to the encoder while you stream. On the control panel the motion stops by itself. On by default. If animation effects are switched off in Windows, there are no particles in the first place, and this switch simply removes the glow.

What it cannot do

The theme is a choice among the four ready looks plus "same as the system". There is no colour picker, no font, and no way to give one page a look of its own — the window is painted as one. And the following works one way only: while Same as the system is picked the app turns with Windows, but once you choose a theme by hand it stays where you put it and Windows no longer moves it.

The theme does not reach your overlays in OBS, and that is on purpose. An overlay is a picture for your viewers, and you set its look yourself on the widget's own page — colours, size, fonts. If it followed the app, then picking a lighter workspace for your second monitor would silently repaint what the whole channel is watching, mid-stream. So the overlay keeps what you gave it, whatever the app looks like around you. The preview inside a widget's settings page stays dark for the same reason: you tune a widget by looking at that picture, so the picture has to match what goes on the air rather than what surrounds it on your screen. Where the overlay's own colours live is in the guide "Overlays in OBS".

The scale list offers its fixed steps only. You cannot type an arbitrary number, and there is no separate scale for one page or for one monitor — it is the whole window at once, and the same value follows the window wherever you drag it.

The three switches only hide things. A hidden log console keeps writing to the file, and hiding the credit row changes nothing about the credits themselves — it just takes them out of the sidebar.

Not everything about the look of the window is on this page. The left menu is narrowed by its own button at the top of the panel — Collapse menu, the double arrow next to the logo — and the interface language and your base currency live on Settings → Localization. The switch that lets another computer on your network reach this one is not here either: it belongs to the local server, so it sits on Settings → Core.

Of everything on this page only the theme travels. It is part of your settings, so a settings backup carries it to a second computer — the guide "Backup" is the one about that. The scale, the three switches, the height of the log console and the narrowed menu are remembered for this computer alone and start from their defaults on a new machine.