Theming

Ant Design allows you to customize design tokens to satisfy UI diversity from business or brand requirements, including primary color, border radius, border color, etc. Design Tokens are the smallest element that affects the theme. By modifying the Design Token, we can present various themes or components.

For more information, refer to the Ant Design documentation about theme customization →

Predefined Themes

RefineThemes has predefined themes that you can use by importing them from @refinedev/antd package.

const { Blue, Purple, Magenta, Red, Orange, Yellow } = RefineThemes;

import { Refine } from "@refinedev/core";
import { ThemedLayoutV2, RefineThemes } from "@refinedev/antd";

import { ConfigProvider } from "antd";

const App: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <ConfigProvider theme={RefineThemes.Blue}>
      <Refine
      /* ... */
      >
        <ThemedLayoutV2>{/* ... */}</ThemedLayoutV2>
      </Refine>
    </ConfigProvider>
  );
};

If you want to see how themes change the look of the application, check out this example →

Theme customization

You can use either the <ConfigProvider/> component or the RefineThemes provided by Refine to change the theme. This is not required if you decide to use the default theme.

Overriding the themes

You can not only override or extend the default themes, but also create your own, just like this:

import { Refine } from "@refinedev/core";
import { ThemedLayoutV2 } from "@refinedev/antd";

import { ConfigProvider } from "antd";

const API_URL = "https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev";

const App: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <ConfigProvider
      theme={{
        components: {
          Button: {
            borderRadius: 0,
          },
          Typography: {
            colorTextHeading: "#1890ff",
          },
        },
        token: {
          colorPrimary: "#f0f",
        },
      }}
    >
      <Refine
      /* ... */
      >
        <ThemedLayoutV2>{/* ... */}</ThemedLayoutV2>
      </Refine>
    </ConfigProvider>
  );
};

Use Preset Algorithms

Themes with different styles can be quickly generated by modifying the algorithm. Ant Design 5.0 provides three sets of preset algorithms by default: the default algorithm theme.defaultAlgorithm, the dark algorithm theme.darkAlgorithm and the compact algorithm theme.compactAlgorithm.

You can switch between algorithms by modifying the algorithm property of theme in <ConfigProvider/>.

For more information, refer to the Ant Design documentation on customizing themes→

Switching to dark theme

Let's start with adding a switch to the Header component:

import { Space, Button } from "antd";

interface HeaderProps {
  theme: "light" | "dark";
  setTheme: (theme: "light" | "dark") => void;
}

const Header: FC<HeaderProps> = (props) => {
  return (
    <Space
      direction="vertical"
      align="end"
      style={{
        padding: "1rem",
      }}
    >
      <Button
        onClick={() => {
          props.setTheme(props.theme === "light" ? "dark" : "light");
        }}
        icon={props.theme === "light" ? <IconMoonStars /> : <IconSun />}
      />
    </Space>
  );
};

Then, we can use the theme property of the ConfigProvider component to switch between light and dark themes:

import { Refine } from "@refinedev/core";
import { ThemedLayoutV2 } from "@refinedev/antd";
import { ConfigProvider, theme } from "antd";

import { Header } from "./Header";

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const [currentTheme, setCurrentTheme] = useState<"light" | "dark">("dark");

  return (
    <ConfigProvider
      theme={{
        algorithm:
          currentTheme === "light"
            ? theme.defaultAlgorithm
            : theme.darkAlgorithm,
      }}
    >
      <Refine
      /* ... */
      >
        <ThemedLayoutV2 Header={Header}>{/* ... */}</ThemedLayoutV2>
      </Refine>
    </ConfigProvider>
  );
};

`useNotificationProvider` compatible with Theme

The notificationProvider export has been deprecated because it cannot consume the current theme context by default. To enable the Notification component to consume the current theme context, import the App component from antd and the useNotificationProvider export from @refinedev/antd and pass it as highlighted below:

import { Refine } from "@refinedev/core";
import { ThemedLayoutV2, useNotificationProvider } from "@refinedev/antd";

import { ConfigProvider, App as AntdApp } from "antd";

const API_URL = "https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev";

const App: React.FC = () => {
    return (
        <ConfigProvider theme={RefineThemes.Blue}>
            <AntdApp>
                <Refine
                    //...
                    notificationProvider={useNotificationProvider}
                >
                    <ThemedLayoutV2>{/* ... */}</ThemedLayoutV2>
                </Refine>
            </AntdApp>
        </ConfigProvider>
    );
};

If you want to customize the default layout elements provided with @refinedev/antd package, check out the Custom Layout tutorial.

Example

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npm create refine-app@latest -- --example customization-theme-antd

Predefined Themes​

Theme customization​

Overriding the themes​

Use Preset Algorithms​

Switching to dark theme​

useNotificationProvider compatible with Theme​

Example​