# Bring Back Direct CSS Editing in Perspective – Keep Dev Workflows Fast & Transparent **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [August 12, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bring-back-direct-css-editing-in-perspective-keep-dev-workflows-fast-transparent/109627 "2025-08-12T05:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bring-back-direct-css-editing-in-perspective-keep-dev-workflows-fast-transparent/109627/7 "2025-08-12T16:18:04Z")
This is an unnecessarily alarmist post. As described [here](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-icon-library-in-8-3/109259/2), you absolutely can create Perspective's extra resources (fonts, themes, icons) now by directly editing files on disk. The location is different and two extra files are necessary - that's the only change. For themes, take the same instructions I gave for icons, but in your `config.json` have a single entry `"entrypoint": "someFile.css"` that points to the 'primary' file. For fonts, create an empty JSON object in the `config.json`. The overall structure of the theme/icon/etc files has not changed - you can [extract them](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-easily-copy-a-built-in-theme/109586/5) from the module easily with an archive explorer if you want to open them in an external code editor. As mentioned by others, that restoring an 8.1 _gateway_ backup doesn't properly restore all theme resources is a known issue that we're going to fix. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bring-back-direct-css-editing-in-perspective-keep-dev-workflows-fast-transparent/109627)._