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Appearance and preferences

Customize how your Runtype dashboard looks and whether it downloads new API keys for you.

Runtype saves these preferences in your current browser. They don’t affect other team members, and they don’t follow you to another browser or device. Clearing your browser’s site data resets them to their defaults.

Open preferences

Open Settings and select Dashboard. The Appearance card holds these preferences.

Choose a theme

Choose a theme from the Theme menu:

  • Light: a light background with dark text.
  • Dark: a dark background with light text.
  • System: matches your operating system’s appearance setting.

You can also click a card under Preview to apply that theme. The active theme’s card is highlighted. Theme changes apply immediately.

The default is System. The Theme control in your account menu changes the same setting.

Download API keys automatically

Always download API keys is on by default. When it’s on, the dashboard downloads a JSON file each time it shows you a new key. This includes management keys you create in Managing API keys and surface keys you create for a product in Authenticating with product API keys. The key dialog shows the name of the downloaded file.

Turn the preference off to download keys yourself. The key dialog then shows a Download key file button.

The file’s contents depend on the key type:

  • Management key: uses the runtype.api-key/v1 format, the same format the Runtype CLI writes. Read the key from its apiKey field.
  • Surface key: contains the key, its type, the API base URL, and an example curl command.

The file contains your full key in plain text, and the dialog won’t show the key again. Move the file out of your downloads folder to a protected location (for management keys, ~/.runtype/keys). Turn this preference off on shared computers.

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