Colors and Styles

Customizing the styles of your Stack Auth components allows you to maintain your brand identity while leveraging the pre-built functionality. This approach is ideal when you want to quickly align the authentication UI with your application’s design system without building custom components from scratch. Stack’s theming system uses a React context to store colors and styling variables that can be easily overridden.

You can customize the following color variables to match your brand:

• background: Main background color of the application
• foreground: Main text color on the background
• card: Background color for card elements
• cardForeground: Text color for card elements
• popover: Background color for popover elements like dropdowns
• popoverForeground: Text color for popover elements
• primary: Primary brand color, used for buttons and important elements
• primaryForeground: Text color on primary-colored elements
• secondary: Secondary color for less prominent elements
• secondaryForeground: Text color on secondary-colored elements
• muted: Color for muted or disabled elements
• mutedForeground: Text color for muted elements
• accent: Accent color for highlights and emphasis
• accentForeground: Text color on accent-colored elements
• destructive: Color for destructive actions like delete buttons
• destructiveForeground: Text color on destructive elements
• border: Color used for borders
• input: Border color for input fields
• ring: Focus ring color for interactive elements

And some other variables:

• radius: border radius of components like buttons, inputs, etc.

These variables are CSS variables so you can use any valid CSS color syntax like hsl(0, 0%, 0%), black, #fff, rgb(255, 0, 0), etc.

The colors can be different for light and dark mode, allowing you to create a cohesive experience across both themes. You can pass these into the StackTheme component (in your layout.tsx file if you followed the Getting Started guide) as follows:

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const theme = {
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  light: {
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    primary: 'red',
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  },
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  dark: {
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    primary: '#00FF00',
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  },
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  radius: '8px',
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}
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// ...
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<StackTheme theme={theme}>
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  {/* children */}
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</StackTheme>