December 3, 2025
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From the beginning, we wanted HashPack to feel distinct. Not another wallet wrapped in the same black and grey UI trends. Instead we leaned into a muted, pastel-led dark mode. Shades of midnight blue, desaturated purples and subtle shadow tones became the foundation.
The goal was modern, soft and comfortable to live in every day. Familiar enough to use instantly, but different enough to feel like HashPack.
The idea of digital identity and ownership naturally pushed us toward personalisation. It reminded me of the formative early internet. Winamp skins, GeoCities pages, MySpace profiles. The freedom to customise how your digital world looked and felt was addictive. It shaped me as a designer and my love of digital products.
HashPack felt like the right place to bring some of that spirit back. Web3 is about ownership, and your wallet should feel like yours.
At its core, the HashPack design system is based on the principles of Atomic Design by Brad Frost. We built a modular foundation using reusable patterns, a swatch library and clear styling configurations. With this system we can swap any visual element with ease while keeping the underlying UI consistent and trustworthy.
Colours, typography, text styles, border radius, backgrounds, motion, even video layers can all be customised. The UI remains the same, but the personality becomes infinite. This creates a familiar HashPack experience while still letting people express themselves in countless ways.
We launched with a series of in-house themes that quickly became favourites within the community. They gave users a taste of what was possible and opened up conversations with projects across the ecosystem. It became clear that themes were more than visual skins. They were a way for communities to form emotional attachment with the wallet they use daily.
Soon after launch, projects reached out wanting to build their own themes. They saw themes as a way to strengthen their community identity and deepen engagement.
The Bonacci collab was where we refined the process. They shared their brand story, colour direction and artwork. We translated that into a full UI theme, choosing background imagery, adjusting contrast levels and tuning every component to fit the HashPack system.
The result was a theme that felt unmistakably Bonacci while staying perfectly native to HashPack. It set the standard for future partner themes.
We also began exploring seasonal drops. Halloween brought darker tones, eerie gradients and playful animations. Christmas introduced warm glows, winter palettes and a more festive feel. And our limited HederaCon theme gave attendees a way to carry the event inside their daily workflow.
These seasonal moments created anticipation and a sense of limited edition collectability.
Since Bonacci we have partnered with multiple ecosystem projects, each adding their own aesthetic flavour, including HANGRY, CREETS, Grelf, Hbarbers, Hyzen and Earthlings. Themes became a canvas for co-creation. Whether it was minimalist, neon, pixel-art inspired or lore-driven, the modular system made it easy to dial in the right look.
HashVote is Hedera’s on-chain voting platform, built by HashPack to give the community a simple way to propose ideas and signal what they want to see next in the ecosystem. One of the most recent highlights was our community vote to bring back the Half Life theme.
It had a cult following, and the results showed just how strongly people identify with the themes they use. Letting the community choose what returns felt true to the spirit of digital ownership that inspired themes in the first place.
Our latest collaboration is with Dead Pixels Ghost Club. The pixel art style and playful aesthetic were a perfect fit for the theme engine. Translating their identity into a working UI meant rethinking how low-fi art interacts with high-fi interface layers.
It turned into one of the most striking sets of themes we have released so far and a strong example of how flexible the system has become.
After the recent Forever Mint Party, which brought a wave of new users and renewed interest in NFT projects on Hedera, we used that momentum to launch a full trio of Ghost Club themes.
Themes have grown from a small design experiment into a core part of the HashPack experience. They allow users and projects to express themselves in a space that normally feels sterile. Expect more collaborations, more seasonal releases and more ways to make your wallet feel personal.
If you are a project and want to create a theme for your community, reach out on Discord or X. Let’s design something that feels unmistakably yours, built on top of the HashPack identity the ecosystem already knows.
To continue exploring the world of HashPack customisation, you can browse all current themes in the HashPack Store.
