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title: "Change how the TYPO3 backend looks and behaves"
manual: "Tutorial for Editors"
version: "main"
permalink: "https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3editors:user-settings-backend-appearance@main"
source: "UserSettings/BackendAppearance/Index.rst"
rendered: "2026-09-23T16:31:23+00:00"
---

# Change how the TYPO3 backend looks and behaves {#user-settings-backend-appearance}

Customize the look, feel, and navigation behavior of your backend. These
settings only change your own backend, not what other editors see.

-   **Color scheme:** Choose **Light mode**, **Dark mode** or
    **Auto detect**, which follows the setting of your operating
    system.
-   **Theme:** Choose one of the [backend themes](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3editors:user-settings-backend-themes@main).
-   **Start up in the following module:** Select the module you see when you
    log into the backend, for example **Dashboard**,
    **Content > Layout** or **Media**.
-   **Format of window title in backend:** Set the text of the browser tab,
    for example whether the page title or the site name comes first.
-   **First day of week in calendar popups:** Set whether calendars in date
    pickers start on Sunday or Monday.

![The Backend appearance tab with the fields Color scheme, Theme, Start up in the following module, Format of window title in backend and First day of week in calendar popups](../../Images/ManualScreenshots/UserSettings/UserSettingsBackendAppearance.png)

## Backend themes {#user-settings-backend-themes}

A theme changes the look of the backend. It does not change where things
are or what you can do.

![The backend in the Classic theme](../../Images/ManualScreenshots/UserSettings/ClassicTheme.png)

![The backend in the Fresh theme](../../Images/ManualScreenshots/UserSettings/FreshTheme.png)

![The backend in the Modern theme](../../Images/ManualScreenshots/UserSettings/ModernTheme.png)