Appearance and language
Light or dark, a sidebar or a top bar, and the difference between your language and your clients'.
2 minute read
These live in Settings → Appearance. They belong to your account rather than to the studio: your colleague can work in dark while you are in light, inside the same studio.
Light, dark, or whatever your system says
Three choices. "System" follows your computer's or your phone's own setting, so it switches over in the evening on its own if you have set it up that way.
The theme is applied as the page loads, with no flash.
Navigation: a column or a bar
Two ways of showing the same menus.
| Who it suits | |
|---|---|
| Sidebar | The default. Collapsible to icons. What you want when you spend the day in the tool. |
| Top bar | Gives the full width of the screen back to the work. Handy on a laptop, or when you mostly look at forms. |
Both reach exactly the same pages.
Two languages, doing two different jobs
This is the distinction worth keeping, because the two settings look alike and do nothing like the same thing.
Your workspace language is in Settings → Appearance. It changes your menus, your buttons and your screens, and it changes nothing for your clients. It is the application's only language setting.
Your studio's publishing language is not a setting at all: it is fixed when the studio is created, from the language you were working in at the time. It is what search engines are told your public page is written in, and changing your working language today does not move it.
Your clients depend on neither: Kalepio serves them buttons and messages in their own browser's language. An English-speaking client opening a French studio's brief reads "Submit" in English.
What is never translated is what you typed: your questions, your descriptions and your introductions stay in the language you wrote them in. Kalepio does not translate your work.
Updated on August 9, 2026
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