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.
2. Theme — pick one of five entries in the list on the right. The four themes run from the darkest to the lightest, so you can walk down and stop where your eyes are comfortable; Same as the system stands apart from that scale, first in the list:
   • 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. 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. Hiding it does not stop logging — records still go to the log file. Shown by default. By default only its header is on screen — click the header to unfold it. Its height is yours to set once it is unfolded: 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. 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.
8. 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.

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 — it is the whole window at once.

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.

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 and the three switches are remembered for this computer alone and start from their defaults on a new machine.

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. The guide "Core" is the one that describes it.