Customization — themes, scale, accessibility

Swik's defaults are calibrated for a 14" Retina laptop with a trackpad. If that's you, you can probably skip this guide. If you're on a 5K display, a Studio Display with a stylus, an external mouse, or you have any color-vision or motor differences, the right settings here can make the menu feel like it was designed for your hand specifically.

Themes

Themes change the menu's chrome — the wedge background, the divider, the highlight color — and nothing else. Your wallpaper, your menu bar, your other apps stay exactly as macOS draws them.

Settings → Menu → Appearance. Five built-in themes, all available on free:

• Glass — the default. Translucent dark wedges with a subtle white border. Reads well over any wallpaper because it's already dark+frosted.
• Dark — opaque near-black wedges, light text. Best for OLED users squeezing power, or for late-night sessions.
• Light — opaque cream wedges, dark text. Best on consistently light backgrounds (writing apps, IDE in light mode).
• High Contrast — saturated yellow border and highlight on solid black. Designed for low-vision accessibility — pairs well with Color-Blind Safe Mode and a 1.5× Menu Scale.
• Neon — translucent dark with cyan accents and magenta highlight. Loud on purpose; pairs with Creative-style workflows.

If you can't decide, leave Glass on. It's the variant most users keep after a week of trying others.

Customizing a theme (Pro) — once you've picked a preset, Pro unlocks per-theme sliders to tune opacity, border width, blur intensity, icon grayscale, plus a hide-labels toggle. Below those are color pickers for highlight, text, border, and dead-zone — useful if you want the menu to match a brand palette across your toolchain. The free tier gets the presets unmodified, which is plenty for most setups.

Menu Scale

Settings → Advanced → Accessibility → Menu Scale. A multiplier from 1.0× (default) to 2.0×.

What this controls: the physical size of the entire radial menu and — importantly — the hit-test zones too. So at 1.5× the wedges aren't just visually larger; the area your cursor has to land in to hit each one is also 1.5×. This makes a real difference for:

• 4K and 5K displays. A wedge that's comfortable at 1.0× on Retina becomes pixel-tiny on a Studio Display. Bump to 1.3× or 1.5×.
• Stylus / pen input. Pens are precise but landing on a 60px target is harder than mousing onto a 60px target. 1.5× makes it forgiving.
• Motor control concerns. 2× is the right call. Combined with a longer Dwell Time it makes the menu fully usable without precision micro-motions.
• Showing the menu in a screencast. Bump to 1.5× so viewers' compressed video can read the labels.

Color-Blind Safe Mode

Settings → Advanced → Accessibility → Color-Blind Safe Mode.

By default, Swik signals state with color: highlighted wedges glow green, sub-menu wedges have a subtle accent. Color-blind safe mode replaces those color cues with shape cues — a small ▶ on active wedges, a small ⌃ chevron on sub-menus. Color is still present (a darkened frame around the wedge tells you it's pressed); the shapes are an additional, redundant signal.

Turn it on if you've ever found yourself counting wedges to figure out which one was highlighted. It's cosmetic-only — no behavior changes.

Behavior tuning — Dwell, Dead Zone, Magnetism, Stability

Settings → Advanced → Behavior. Four sliders that control the raw physics of how Swik interprets your cursor:

The fastest way to get a feel for these is to use the Interaction Presets at the top of the same tab — Default, Fast, Precise. Pick one, use the menu for a day, then nudge the individual sliders if a specific behavior still bothers you.

Smart Selection — Predictive, Type-to-Filter, Force Touch

Settings → Advanced → Smart Selection. Three independent toggles:

• Predictive Highlighting — Swik watches your cursor's velocity and direction and pre-highlights the wedge it thinks you're heading toward, before you actually cross its boundary. Makes the menu feel anticipatory and fluid. Worth keeping on; turns off cleanly if you find it noisy.
• Type-to-Filter — start typing a letter while the menu is open and it filters wedges by name. Useful when your menu has 12+ items and you remember the name but not the position. Works in Hold mode too — keep your trigger held, type, the matching wedges glow.
• Force Touch Sensitivity — on Force Touch trackpads, a deep press instantly commits the hovered wedge, bypassing dwell time. Lets the very fast users go faster without changing their dwell setting.

Haptic, Sound, Keyboard Navigation

Settings → Advanced → Feedback. Three independent toggles for sensory output:

• Haptic Feedback — vibrates the Force Touch trackpad on hover and commit. No effect on non-Force Touch trackpads or mice.
• Sound Effects — subtle system UI sounds for hover, commit, and sub-menu navigation. Default off; turn on if you find yourself second-guessing whether a click registered.
• Keyboard Navigation — enables arrow keys, WASD, HJKL, number keys 1-8, Return, and Escape while the menu is open. Pair this with Toggle trigger mode for a fully keyboard-only flow.

Recipes — common configurations

Reset to defaults

Settings → Advanced → Layout & Reset → Reset to Defaults. Restores every value in the Advanced tab to factory settings. Your menu configuration (apps, wedges, sub-menus) and your hotkey are not affected — only Advanced behavior. Use this if your tweaks have made the menu feel weird and you don't remember what you changed.