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# 3 November: the app takes on the look of the start page

2026-11-03 · Product

> The signed-in app now uses the same near-black ground, Barlow type and hairlines as zerolog.ch. Colour shows up only as light: on the open chat, the message field and the send button.

Until today the app wore a violet glass look of its own. It now follows the start page: a near-black ground, Barlow as the typeface, thin lines between areas and small mono labels for machine text such as model names.

*The three areas of the redesign.*

Text version

App frame: flat sidebar and top bar split by hairlines, light only on the open chat, the ZL crystal as the mark. Chat: a prism edge on the message field, a light send button, code blocks with a language head. Pages: neutral cards, one shared set of colour tokens, a visible focus ring.

## What you will notice

The sidebar, the top bar and the work area are no longer floating boxes. One line separates them. Only the chat you have open carries a thin prism edge and a soft glow.

Your own messages sit on a dark grey surface instead of a violet gradient. Code blocks show their language at the top, and the model name under each answer is a small label.

Settings, files, jobs, billing and the admin pages use the same neutral cards.

## Access

Text keeps a contrast of at least 4.5 to 1 against its background. The focus ring now also shows in Windows high contrast mode, and wide code blocks can be scrolled with the keyboard.

## What stays the same

The light theme, your own themes from the appearance settings and the start view with the large crystal are unchanged.

No feature, text or price changed.
