Portal appearance

Your player portal is the face of your world to everyone who isn't sitting at your table. Portal Appearance lets it look like the world it's showing — not like every other Skryrún portal.

Open it from world settings.

Genre presets

Pick a preset and the whole portal follows. Every tier gets all of them:

Preset	Look
Default	The default gold-on-midnight look
Crimson Dread	Near-black with a wound of red. For things best left buried
Drowned Stars	A cold, sickly glow from somewhere beneath the dark
Gilded Realm	Warm gold and soft edges for sweeping heroic tales
Iron & Ash	Desaturated steel for worlds where nobody wins clean
Violet Sanctum	Deep indigo and amethyst — high magic and stranger powers
Wildgrowth	Mossy greens for druidic, untamed, living worlds
Neon Sprawl	Black glass and electric magenta for chrome-and-rain futures

Skryrún suggests presets that match your world's genre and tone, so the shortlist is usually two or three rather than eight.

Custom colours ⚔️ Weaver+

Beyond presets, the guided colour editor derives a full, legible palette from a single accent colour you choose. You're picking the world's colour; the surfaces, text, and borders that go with it are worked out for you.

The editor checks contrast as you go and warns before you ship a portal nobody can read on a phone in daylight.

Structure and typography ⚔️ Weaver+

Finer controls, each a fixed set of choices rather than free-form styling:

Control	Options
Corners	Sharp, soft, round
Font	Cinzel, Crimson, Outfit
Texture	None, fog, grid, parchment
Header style	Classic, minimal, banner-bleed
Heading case	Normal, uppercase, small-caps
Heading tracking	Tight, normal, wide
Prose width	Narrow, normal, wide
Density	Compact, normal, airy
Elevation	Flat, lifted, dramatic
Borders	Hairline, solid, double, ornate
Dividers	None, rule, glyph, filigree
Navigation	Tabs, pills, underline, rail
Cards	Flat, bordered, glass, inset
Links	Underline, accent, bracket
Images	None, desaturate, sepia, vignette, duotone
Ambient glow	Subtle, normal, strong

💡Tip

Density and prose width do more for a lore-heavy portal than colour does. A narrow measure with airy density reads like a book; compact with a wide measure reads like a wiki. Pick the one your world is.

Preview before you ship

The panel previews your changes live. Appearance changes go out the moment you save them — there's no wait for a cache to turn over.

⚠️Warning

A portal theme is a fixed vocabulary of colours and choices — never raw CSS. There's no field here that takes HTML, a stylesheet, or a URL, which is deliberate: your portal can't be styled into something that leaks your players' data.

Troubleshooting

Custom colours are greyed out. Guided colour groups and the structure controls are ⚔️ Weaver+ features. Genre presets are available on every tier.

A preset looks wrong on one page. Presets set colours and surfaces, not layout. If a page reads badly, adjust density, prose width, or card style rather than the palette.

Contrast warnings won't clear. The accent is too close in luminance to the background. Pick a lighter or darker accent — the editor is checking what a real reader can distinguish, not a preference.