topic Re: Missing theme in Fusion Support Forum

Missing theme

viclick — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:38:55 GMT

The update today removed the classic theme. There was no need to change the interface and I prefer the classic theme as I can see it much better than the other themes. How can I switch to classic when there is no option in the pull down? Please put it back.

Re: Missing theme

dsouzasujay — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:29:23 GMT

Hi @viclick ,

What happens to you when you select "Mach Device Theme"?

Re: Missing theme

robertLL6Q9 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:54:04 GMT

Same here. No classic theme option anymore. 😞

Re: Missing theme

ziggy6891 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:02:20 GMT

I'm joining this topic, bring back Classic Theme!

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:49:44 GMT

So here we go with another update, and Autodesk has once again ruined the UI. I really don’t understand why they keep doing this. Either they mess up the scaling, or they remove the Classic theme again (the only one out of all those experiments that actually looks professional and is easy on the eyes). This has happened multiple times now!!!

Who is supposed to look at those hair-thin fonts and the over-contrasted side menu all day?? The last time they broke this, the forum was (rightfully) flooded with angry users complaining about how uncomfortable it is to work with. I’m honestly starting to feel like they’re doing this on purpose 😞

Is it really such a big problem to just keep the Classic theme as an option??? Or at least allow users to change the UI font so everyone can choose, like most normal Windows applications do. Exactly for this reason I didn’t install the latest update on my work laptop, and I really hope the Fusion team does something about it.

Re: Missing theme

dsouzasujay — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:30:19 GMT

Hi @mbelusa.mail @viclick @ziggy6891 @robertLL6Q9

Thanks for reporting this. I have logged an internal defect to investigate the missing Classic Theme:

Defect ID: FUS-232881

I’m going to check with the development team to confirm what changed in the latest update and whether Classic Theme was removed intentionally or is a regression. I’ll share more information here as soon as I have an update.

Thanks again for your patience.

Re: Missing theme

viclick — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:28:44 GMT

Thank Sujay. I want to point out that this happened in the previous update. I posted here (Too much gray) and it was addressed by doing something to add the classic theme back. The new theme is just plain bad and the classic theme should always be available for people who like it, and for people who, like me, have a hard time seeing that the gray icons are not disabled.

Thanks for your help.

Vic

Re: Missing theme

William_Dec_45 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:14:25 GMT

I'm color blind and the removal of the Classic theme has essentially put me out of business.

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:32:39 GMT

When we discussed the removal of the Classic theme in a previous update, someone from support mentioned that it would be completely removed at the beginning of the new year as part of unifying the UI across all Autodesk products.

If you are making such fundamental changes, it is important that someone in your development team with a real sense for visual UI design evaluates the result — not only from a technical perspective. The current themes look like they were created by someone without a feeling for professional UI aesthetics.

We run Fusion on FHD laptops, 3K OLED displays, and standard 3K monitors. On none of these does Fusion look good now. The Data Panel is overly high-contrast, menus on 3K displays use tiny hairline fonts, and the overall color balance is tiring for the eyes. All of this was reasonably well tuned in the Classic theme.

If Autodesk does not want to bring back the Classic theme, there is a very simple alternative: add basic UI color and font settings to Preferences — as implemented in CREO and other professional applications.

I have been paying for several Fusion licenses for about 5 years now, and the price keeps increasing (which I don’t mind — it’s good software). What I do mind is being forced into unfinished UI changes without any option of choice.

Re: Missing theme

hammerfab_com — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:28:46 GMT

I can understand wanting to unify the themes across all autodesk software but this theme is just bad which must mean that every other autodesk software looks horrendous as well. Please bring back the classic theme or at least fix this theme so its visually pleasing. Its not that it just looks bad, there's something about it thats just hard on the eyes causing fatigue.

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:43:43 GMT

Hello,

any update from dev team?

Thank you.

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:14:17 GMT

So far I haven’t installed the update on my work laptop. If the Classic theme has indeed been removed in the latest update, I’d like to ask how I’m supposed to deal with the broken scaling when switching to the Light Gray theme.

This is how the UI looks if, in the last version before the newest update, I switch from Classic theme to Light Gray theme. So it’s not just about colors — the main issue is clearly broken scaling in the Light Gray theme. How am I expected to use paid software for real work in this state?

The laptop has an FHD display — yes, everything is fully updated as it should be.

Or is this broken scaling already fixed in the latest Fusion update?

Thank you for your reply.

Re: Missing theme

lance.carocci — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:06:05 GMT

That is not the typical experience, and it's not something we can see internally. We should continue the investigation in your previous thread.

Re: Missing theme

rclement_ — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:23:41 GMT

Another vote to bring back the option to have the Classic theme. ALSO - Artifakt is a terrible-looking font, could you please stop making it happen? This is like Microsoft and Calibri... : (

Re: Missing theme

lance.carocci — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:42:23 GMT

For the sake of constructive discussion, can you please elaborate what makes it terrible-looking? Display resolution and DPI scale would also be helpful to know.

Re: Missing theme

viclick — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:28:20 GMT

Sujay, I just your question. Sorry. I have try all the themes in that pull down. The classic theme is missing.

Re: Missing theme

viclick — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:36:13 GMT

Lance, you helped when I reported the same type of problem after the November update. Somehow you managed to get the classic theme back in the pulldown. I hope you can work the same magic again. You can see there is interest in retaining the classic theme as an option.

Vic

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:41:42 GMT

In the end, I had to update to the latest Fusion version so our team could continue working (data compatibility), and I can confirm that DPI scaling is fixed in the latest release.

However, as already mentioned by others, the fonts still do not look professional compared to the Classic theme. On a 14" FHD laptop they are unnecessarily small, which makes daily work less comfortable.

A simple solution would be to add font size controls in Preferences — and ideally also allow users to select the UI font. This would immediately resolve these issues and is a fairly standard feature for professional software.

Re: Missing theme

lance.carocci — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:51:07 GMT

Unfortunately, this time the removal was intentional. This thread and related feedback are circulating internally, but at this moment there is no guarantee that Classic will return.

Re: Missing theme

mbelusa.mail — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:03:05 GMT

May we ask why this was done deliberately? Why would the dev team remove something that users clearly prefer? From a user perspective, this feels counterproductive, especially when the Classic theme was widely requested to remain.