# How to easily copy a built in theme?

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For posterity, the _easiest_ solution might be to either go to your filesystem or our downloads page and download the Perspective module:

> **[Current Ignition Release | Inductive Automation](https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads/ignition/8.3.0-beta2)**
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.modl files are just zip files, so you can open them in any archive extraction tool. It'll contain, among other things, a `perspective-themes` .jar file.  
.jar files are _also_ just zip files, so you can open _them_ in any archive extraction tool.  
Inside the themes files there'll be a set of Perspective theme .zip files:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/1/41a3c967955c42420a297291a22ec0d2430e443c.png)

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