# Need help to how to customize the theme color of the kibana dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 13, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824 "2023-06-13T05:14:04Z")
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### Author:  [@Ashigha\_JR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashigha_JR)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/1 "2023-06-13T05:14:04Z")
Is it possible to customize the theme color of the kibana dashboard apart from default light and dark theme.
I need to change the kibana dashboard theme color into purple , also need to change the color of the time filter,refresh button,query,filter bar from blue color to purple.
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/2 "2023-06-13T13:20:56Z")
Hi @Ashigha_JR,
Which version of Kibana are you are using? There is a [community plugin](https://github.com/nimocks/kibana-dashboard-custom-css) for custom CSS that you could try but it was developed on 7.7.1 and we can't make any guarantees on it.
Otherwise you will need to either make the CSS changes yourself or write a plugin [as per this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-kibana-ui/178133).
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### Author:  [@Ashigha\_JR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashigha_JR)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/3 "2023-06-14T05:07:19Z")
Thanks for the reply Carly, we are using kibana 8.1.1 version and unable to find CSS files in the Kibana source code.Can you please tell me if you know the path of the CSS where I need to make change.
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/4 "2023-06-14T10:20:37Z")
I'm not 100% sure, but I would have a look at the [public styles folder](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/8.1/src/core/public/styles) in GitHub, as well as the [guidelines on using a Kibana release](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/8.1#using-a-kibana-release).
Hope that helps!
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### Author:  [@Ashigha\_JR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashigha_JR)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/5 "2023-06-14T13:47:53Z")
Hi Carly, can we ovverride the button color,text color from blue color to purple using this public style folder.If we written styles in that public styles folder ,it will reflect in the Kibana UI by restarting the kibana ? or need to follow any steps to make that changes reflect in the UI ?
Also is it possible to ovverride the `kbn-ui-shared-deps-npm` package css styles using the public styles folder
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### Author:  [@Ashigha\_JR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashigha_JR)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/6 "2023-06-27T06:20:50Z")
Hi
As suggested, we tried to use 2 custom plugins which are available. But these are not compatible with our Kibana version and have license issues.
Any suggestions on this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2023, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-to-how-to-customize-the-theme-color-of-the-kibana-dashboard/335824/7 "2023-07-25T06:21:43Z")
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