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Appearance & language

Personalize Ember to match your taste. Customize typography, style presets, accent colors, and sizes.

Configure the user interface language. Ember supports 23 languages natively.

The Watercolour appearance

New accounts start with Watercolour. Open More → Settings → Appearance to preview another style. The preview reflects your selection before you save it.

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Appearance
Emily
Emily
Emily Carter
"Em"
Close friend · Female
FamilyWork
Interaction
Note
Transaction
Photo
Weather
San Francisco
28°
Birthday & Zodiac
Birthday
15/08/1992 · 34 years old
♌
Western Zodiac
Leo
Astrology
WarmOrganized
StyleColorWallpaperFontSize
Misty Grove
Watercolour
Daybreak
Nightscape
Horizon
Ember
Cupertino
Atelier
Marshmallow
Concrete
Aurora
Sunset
Noir
Bauhaus
Linen
Gilded
Botanica
Quest
Lime
Manga
Y2K
Neon
Academia
Street
Coquette
Appearance shows a live contact preview so you can see changes before saving.

Customize style, accent, font, and size

  1. Go to Settings → Appearance.
  2. Under Style, swipe the choices horizontally. Misty Grove, Watercolour, Daybreak, Nightscape, and Horizon appear at the start of the current picker.
  3. Under Color tab, choose an accent color swatch (e.g. Ember, Gold, Forest, Graphite, Ocean, Plum, Rose).
  4. Under Wallpaper, choose from the background options supported by the selected style. Some wallpaper changes require applying the style first.
  5. Under Font, choose from the fonts supported for your current app language.
  6. Under Size tab, select a scale: Small, Medium, Large, or Extra large.
  7. Review the real-time preview card displaying the live sample contact.
  8. Tap the checkmark in the upper corner to apply your changes.
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Appearance
Emily
Emily
Emily Carter
"Em"
Close friend · Female
FamilyWork
Interaction
Note
Transaction
Photo
Weather
San Francisco
28°
Birthday & Zodiac
Birthday
15/08/1992 · 34 years old
♌
Western Zodiac
Leo
Astrology
WarmOrganized
StyleColorWallpaperFontSize
Misty Grove
Watercolour
Daybreak
Nightscape
Horizon
Ember
Cupertino
Atelier
Marshmallow
Concrete
Aurora
Sunset
Noir
Bauhaus
Linen
Gilded
Botanica
Quest
Lime
Manga
Y2K
Neon
Academia
Street
Coquette
Style, Color, Background, Font, and Size tabs sit directly below the preview.

Free members can apply free styles, including Watercolour and Misty Grove. Selecting a locked style opens the upgrade flow; you can preview it before deciding.

Change app language

  1. Navigate to Settings.
  2. Tap Language showing the current active language.
  3. Type in the Search languages field to filter from the 23 supported languages (e.g. English, Tiếng Việt, Español, Français, Deutsch, etc.).
  4. Tap the language name to immediately switch the interface language.
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🇬🇧English
🇻🇳Tiếng Việt
🇨🇳简体中文
🇹🇼繁體中文
🇯🇵日本語
🇰🇷한국어
🇩🇪Deutsch
🇫🇷Français
🇪🇸Español
🇧🇷Português (Brasil)
🇮🇹Italiano
🇷🇺Русский
🇺🇦Українська
🇵🇱Polski
🇳🇱Nederlands
🇹🇷Türkçe
🇮🇩Bahasa Indonesia
🇲🇾Bahasa Melayu
🇹🇭ไทย
🇮🇳हिन्दी
🇵🇭Filipino
🇮🇷فارسی
🇸🇦العربية
The picker includes search and the full list of supported languages.

Onboarding language selection

  1. When opening Ember for the first time, you are presented with the Choose your language screen.
  2. Find and select your language, then tap Continue.
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Choose your language

You can change this anytime in Settings.

The same language choice is available during first-time setup.

You can change this choice at any time under Settings.

Choose a Scenic interface with image backgrounds

  1. Open Settings → Appearance → Style.
  2. Choose Horizon, Daybreak, Nightscape, or Day & Night to use a Scenic interface with image backgrounds.
  3. Day & Night follows the device's local time automatically: the daytime style starts at 05:00 and the night style starts at 18:00.
  4. Preview the result, then tap the checkmark in the upper corner to save it. You can still change the accent, wallpaper, font, and text size before applying.
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Appearance
Emily
EmilyClose friend · Female
Interaction
Note
Transaction
Photo
StyleColorBackgroundFontSize
Daybreak
Nightscape
Horizon
Scenic previews the image-background styles and keeps accent, background, font, and text-size controls in the same appearance flow.

Watercolour is the default style for new accounts. Free styles can be applied directly; selecting a locked style opens the upgrade flow shown in the app.

On this page

How many languages does Ember support?

Ember supports 23 languages natively across all screens, onboarding, and settings pages.

Can I use custom fonts?

Choose from the fonts built into Ember. The available list depends on your current app language; see Settings → Appearance → Font.