How to apply dark mode to AWS UI components

Charles Stover
2 min readJan 9, 2021
The AWS UI side navigation, breadcrumbs, and table components before and after the application of dark mode.

In How to apply your brand’s theme to AWS UI components, I wrote a guide to applying custom styles to the AWS UI component library. This was the foundation I needed to replicate dark mode for my portfolio when I migrated from Material UI to AWS UI.

Once I was able to modify the values of the AWS UI design tokens (CSS variables), it was just a matter of plugging in the dark mode…

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