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New 3.0 Theme - NorthernLights

Erlend Larsen Bonderud 3 years ago • updated 1 week ago • 2

This is one of my favourite pieces of software on the homeserver, providing me with content on train commutes. Since there's a new version of Ubooquity, I thought I'd do two things 


  1. Donate to keep the project running. 
  2. Adapt my own personal theme to the new version and share it for others to use

I've put together a darker theme that is esthetiqually pleasing to me, but I don't make any claim that this is a theme for everyone. I haven't put it through usability trials across different devices and screen resolutions, so there might be some bugs - but report them back to me and I'll make a reasonable effort to keep people happy.


The main differences from the default theme:

# Modern CSS3 usage. Deleted some of the old code which is now failing checks. Added some new tricks instead.
# Darkish background - easier on the eyes.
# Navigational Icons are largely replaced by embedding awesomefont -> lower theme size, more responsive at the cost of some loading time. This is mostly a change to make it easier to prototype other theme changes.
# Category Icons are now photorealistic instead of pictograms at a cost of a higher filesize, typical 6kb vs 30kb.
# Added persistant logout and home buttons in top menu -> More uniform behaviour

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The Theme can  be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12_r1es5NBKtl5HejppVyQ8WDtFJonUHt/view?usp=drive_link

Under review

Very nice ! Thanks Erlend. :)

Due to overwelming public demand, I have updated my NorthernLights theme for Ubooquity to v2.0. v1.0 worked well enough, but I saw I had left a couple of rough edges here and there, so welcome to 2026! 

What’s changed:


  • Works properly on phones and small screens (I finally worked out I had forgotten the cover-width settings).
  • Dark and light modes, remembered per browser (Did I steal the idea from Renegade Reader? yes.)
  • A “Go to” menu to jump between categories, plus Latest and Random
  • Hover quick actions on covers (read, download, details, mark as finished)
  • Frosted-glass login page, popups and book details, with a new logo and icons
  • Several small bug-fixes, including a Home link that broke behind a proxy and cover sizes that were never set properly



Are there any chance of letting us skin the reader buttons inside the epub reader as well? I found a way to do it using a caddy setup in my docker, but it doesn't port really nicely.

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NorthernLights v2.0 Download via Google Drive