Dark themes for SharePoint sites

Microsoft is rolling out two new pre-designed, multi-color dark themes for modern SharePoint sites: Dark Teal and Dark Blue.
These themes introduce modern dark color palettes with multi-color combinations, enabling richer visual experiences and more consistent branding across modern SharePoint sites.

This update does not change existing settings that hide pre-designed Microsoft themes. If a SharePoint administrator has disabled the use of pre-designed Microsoft themes, the configuration remains in effect. In this case, site owners will not find the new dark themes.

Timeline

The rollout should be completed in February 2026.

How does this affect your users?

Site owners can find the two new themes under Site settings > Change the look > Theme.

Change the look for your SharePoint site
Change the look for your SharePoint site

The new themes are at the end of the theme list: Dark Teal and Dark Blue.

New themes: Dark Teal and Dark Blue
New themes: Dark Teal and Dark Blue

The selected theme updates headers, footers, section designs, the Text web part, and Design Ideas. The main difference between the two themes is the color used for buttons and hyperlinks.

The new Dark Blue theme
The new Dark Blue theme

The new themes do not affect existing custom or default themes, do not change overall site functionality, and remain unavailable if SharePoint administrators have disabled pre-designed Microsoft themes.

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Tobias Asböck

Tobias is a Senior System Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience with Microsoft 365 products such as SharePoint Online, SharePoint Premium, OneDrive for Business, Teams Collaboration, Entra ID, Information Protection, Universal Print, and Microsoft 365 Licensing. He also has 15+ years of experience planning, administering, and operating SharePoint Server environments. Tobias is a PowerShell Scripter with certifications for Microsoft 365 products. In his spare time, Tobias is busy with updates in the Microsoft 365 world or on the road with his road bike and other sports activities. If you have additional questions, please contact me via LinkedIn or [email protected].

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