As of Gitea version **1.17.0**, create directories in your Gitea custom file path with this name: **/assets/css/**. You can find your custom Gitea file path by navigating to **Site Administration -> Config** and looking under **Custom File Root Path**.
As of Gitea version **1.17.0**, create directories in your Gitea custom file path with this name: **/public/assets/css/**. For example, if your **Custom File Path was**`/var/lib/gitea/custom`, you would add folders to reach this directory: `/var/lib/gitea/custom/public/assets/css`. You can use `mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/custom/public/assets/css` in that case to make things easier for yourself.
You can find your custom Gitea file path by navigating to **Site Administration -> Config** and looking under **Custom File Root Path**.
Take both *theme-nico.css* and *nicofooter.png* and insert them in this folder.
By adding **nico** to the end of the list you can now select it when you go to your *Appearance* options list. If you want the nico theme to be the default theme, then change **auto** to **nico**
If the **THEMES** key is already present somewhere in your app.ini file, simply add nico to the list
If the **THEMES** key is already present somewhere in your app.ini file, simply add nico to the list
## What does it look like?
Well, you're looking at it. But just to be safe, here's some images:
