The Guide Theme
Guide is the ultimate theme for documentation sites, combining a sleek, modern design with powerful features. Packed with dark mode, a toggleable sidebar, and intuitive navigation, it’s designed to make your content shine. Plus, you can fully customize the colors to match your brand!
The Guide theme is available with the Typemill MAKER license. You can test the Guide theme at the demo instance under https://try.typemill.net
Toggle Dark Mode
The Guide theme includes a dark mode switch in the frontend. Clicking the sun icon switches to the dark color scheme,

clicking on the moon icon switches back to the light color scheme. You can customize both color schemes in the theme settings.

Toggle Sidebar
Users can toggle the sidebar in the frontend using an icon at the top. In mobile view, the logic is inverted — the page starts with the sidebar closed, and users can open it with a button.
Toggle Navigation
Users can toggle the navigation in the frontend, and the browser will remember the last state of the navigation.
Customize Colors
You can customize both light and dark mode colors in the theme settings. To get a quick impression of what's possible, load one of the three readymade configurations at the top of the theme settings. Be sure to save the settings and preview the changes in the frontend. The available readymades are:
- STANDARD: The default theme colors seen in the demo. Add your brand color to make it your own.
- PASTEL: A colorful but soft pastel color scheme.
- NEON: A bold, edgy design with funky neon colors. Ask your designer to create something unique.
More Customization Options
The Guide theme offers additional customization options, including:
- Logo: Use an image logo and/or a text logo.
- Fonts: Choose between system fonts for headlines and body text.
- Content: Configure content elements like
- a breadcrumb.
- a print button.
- an edit button, which can link to a repository (e.g., GitHub).
- the publish date.
- the author name.
- next/previous page navigation links.
- Footer: Add up to three footer columns and insert markdown.
Changelog
Version 2.1.0
- New option for a centered layout with maximum width.
- New options for background color.
- Two new readymades (notion-like and boxed style).
- New option to show the subnavigation of a folder below content.
- New option to set default mode to dark or light
- Moved print and edit buttons to toolbox
- Fixed html-bug that destroyed first line of content.