# Dark / Light mode Shadow Color

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [December 7, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059 "2025-12-07T18:00:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Doobox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/doobox/32/32373_2.png) [@Doobox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Doobox)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059/1 "2025-12-07T18:00:42Z")

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Dark / Light mode Shadow Color, is not possible. Dark shadow is kind of useless in dark mode and vice versa,

Only by creating them yourself in advanced:

```css
shadow-[0_6px_16px_rgba(0,0,0,0.5)]
dark:shadow-[0_6px_16px_rgba(244,114,182,0.5)]

```

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059/2 "2025-12-08T11:46:24Z")

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We currently only support setting colours on light and dark mode.

We would need to add controls for setting the shadow colour to fix this in the core components.

You can also set the shadow colour via a custom CSS class, as you’ve done above.

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**Author:** ![Doobox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/doobox/32/32373_2.png) [@Doobox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Doobox)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059/3 "2025-12-08T12:21:29Z")

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> [@ben](#):
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> We would need to add controls for setting the shadow colour to fix this in the core components.

That was kind of my point.

 ![CleanShot 2025-12-08 at 12 .31.42@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/d/6/d6c787425376418ff2dd39653554c2b0c55eee32.png)

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**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dark-light-mode-shadow-color/53059/4 "2025-12-08T14:11:57Z")

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I get what you’re saying, but this is drifting into nit-picking. The point is understood. We do plan to add proper light/dark mode support for shadows, but there are higher-priority areas we need to focus on first.