Do you find the way OBS looks a little... boring?
Wanna spice it up?
I've covered a gamut of plugins and features for OBS Studio, but we haven't talked about
customizing its appearance much yet.
Today let's cover 5 - well, actually closer to 9 - custom themes for OBS Studio in today's
video.
I'm EposVox, the Stream Professor, and OBS Studio has supported custom theming for a
little while now, but there's a *criminal* lack of custom themes being made for it.
Let you in on a little secret?
That's part of my motivation for making this video - yes, I want to feature the cool themes
that exist, but I want more people getting their hands dirty improving OBS's UI.
So I'm raising awareness.
Or something.
Let's jump in with theme #1: Ocean Blue.
This is a theme created by Xaymar - the developer of the StreamFX plugin.
Ocean Blue takes OBS's UI and gives you a darker theme with a splash of color.
Pun intended.
A brighter blue is used for the window bar, a less bright color for buttons and drop-downs,
and then a darker blue for background.
This is similar to the dark theme, but with a little more contrast and visibility.
Instead of a slight color variance to indicate when buttons like Studio Mode are pressed,
a checkmark is placed as an indicator - which is a fair bit more obvious.
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Next up, we have a pair of themes hoping to improve the Dark theme idea.
Flat Dark Theme takes the Dark Theme and fits it more in line with the flat UI design you'd
see on some Linux distro themes and the like.
I find the greys a bit more pleasing here, but I'm not a fan of flat UI design overall,
myself.
But I know a lot of people like this kind of thing.
On the other hand, "High DPI eye-friendly Dark Theme" mostly keeps the normal dark theme
mostly left alone, aside from a bigger font that makes it easier on the eyes for high
resolution screens with higher scaling factors.
As a 4K monitor user, this is a sight for sore eyes.. ba dum tsh.
The next theme is... loud.
This is the CGC theme.
It actually comes from a site dedicated to resources for CamGirls, called CamGirlCloud.
So uhh, if you want resources on that, there ya go.
Regardless of the source, you get bright pinks, purples and in-betweens that fit my branding
a little bit and might be what you're looking for.
If all of these themes so far are a little too dark and moody, a user by the name of
Prequii has made a Light theme!
Like, an actual Light theme, not the System Default theme.
This one is actually impressive and for those of you not obsessed with dark mode everything,
it seems like a nice upgrade over the older System theme included with OBS.
Lastly, we have a group of 4 themes designed to emulate the look of other platforms or
programs.
First, we have Streamlabs Theme by Kevinectv, which uses the Rachni theme as a base and
the Noto Sans font to make OBS Studio look a little more like StreamLabs OBS.
This is great for users who just like the color scheme or are perhaps migrating from
StreamLabs OBS over to OBS Studio and want a little more familiarity.
Then we have 3 themes by derMiepz based on different streaming platforms: Twitchy for
Twitch, YouTubey for YouTube, and Mixery for the dearly-missed Mixer.
These ad very pleasing color accents and a nice overall presentation to OBS Studio, especially
when used with the Comfortaa Regular fonts.
Twitchy has been my favorite theme for a long time and I've been using it in videos off
and on for a few years now.
I know this might seem like a silly thing to make a video on, but not enough people
know that OBS themes are even a thing or how to customize it, and I want to get more people
talking about it.
I'll have a short going live today showing you how to install these themes, if you need
the extra help.
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