PlantUML: customize look and feel using themes

PlantUML has good number of built-in themes to change the look and feel of a diagram.

 

How to get list of all themes?

'help themes' command print al the available themes in your PlantUML version.

 

allThemes.txt

@startuml

         help themes

@enduml

 

 

How to use a theme?

Using !theme directive, we can set a theme to the diagram.

 

Example

!theme united

 

marsTheme.txt

@startuml

!theme mars

left to right direction
skinparam roundCorner 50

title "Operating System Process states" 

state New #magenta
state Ready #palegreen
state Running #green
state "Suspend wait" as  SW #FFBA77
state "Wait / block" as WB #FFDF77
state "Suspend ready" as SR #FFFF77
state Termination #red

[*] --> New
New --> Ready

Ready --> Running : Schedule/dispatch
Running --> Ready : Priority/time elapse

Running --> Termination : completion
Running --> WB : I/O Request

WB --> Ready : I/O completion
WB --> SW : Suspend

SW --> WB : Resume
SW --> SR : Completed I/O, but still in suspend

SR --> Ready : Resume
Ready --> SR : Suspend

Termination --> [*]

@enduml

Above snippet generate below diagram.

crt-green theme

 

 

sketchy theme

 

Materia theme

 

 

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