Hello! I have a question. I saw your beautiful Anki layouts, as well as those of Nihongolog, and I was a little surprised; your Anki layout is completely different from my own! How were you able to change the layout? Are you using a different version of Anki? I’m using the latest windows version, and all I have is the boring white-on-black and thin line between question and answer.

Oh hey, I’m sorry I think this was probably from a while back— I didn’t even realize I had an ask. I’m using the latest version of Anki, Anki2 (or well, I realized when I opened the Windows version that I’m actually running a bit out of date since it wanted me to update, but it should be the same major version: 2.0.8 is what I’m running vs 2.0.11). It does come with a default white/black layout, but I customized it myself by going in and editing the layout/css on the cards and adding my userscript (I gather there’s a built in feature for ‘hint’ but I wanted a bit more customization, since it sounded like that would only work for one field).

Basically you go to “Browse" from the main Anki window, select your card type from the left side, and then when you’re editing a card, there’ll be a button that says “Cards". If you click that the Card Type editor opens, and you’ll have things like “Front Template", “Styling", “Back Template", “Front Preview", “Back Preview" in the window, and you can use HTML, CSS, and Javascript to edit it.

I’m always kind of tweaking my template, like for example, the axolotl-background one looks kind of weird in AnkiDroid sometimes because of what i did to off-center the headers, but if you want to use it as a starting point, here’s some pastebins for it: Front Template (includes the tiny js script I wrote to handle the toggles per element), Styling, and Back Template.

Hope that helps, and sorry again for the rather delayed response.