diff --git a/files/__main__.py b/files/__main__.py
index 8be2d40c7..27abf0b9a 100644
--- a/files/__main__.py
+++ b/files/__main__.py
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ app.config['SEND_FILE_MAX_AGE_DEFAULT'] = 3153600
 app.config["SESSION_COOKIE_NAME"] = "session_" + environ.get("SITE_NAME").strip().lower()
 app.config["VERSION"] = "1.0.0"
 app.config['MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH'] = 16 * 1024 * 1024
-app.config["SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE"] = True 
+app.config["SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE"] = True
 app.config["SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE"] = "Lax"
 app.config["PERMANENT_SESSION_LIFETIME"] = 60 * 60 * 24 * 365
 app.config["DEFAULT_COLOR"] = environ.get("DEFAULT_COLOR", "ff0000").strip()
-app.config["DEFAULT_THEME"] = environ.get("DEFAULT_THEME", "midnight").strip()
+app.config["DEFAULT_THEME"] = "TheMotte"
 app.config["FORCE_HTTPS"] = 1
 app.config["UserAgent"] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"
 app.config["HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY"] = environ.get("HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY","").strip()
diff --git a/files/assets/css/TheMotte.css b/files/assets/css/TheMotte.css
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..302e6c25f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/assets/css/TheMotte.css
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+@charset "UTF-8";
+
+
+:root {
+	--dark: #c7c7c7;
+	--secondary: #c7c7c7;
+	--gray: #c7c7c7;
+	--gray-300: #c7c7c7;
+	--gray-400: #cfcfcf;	
+	--gray-500: #ffffff;
+	--gray-600: #ffffff;
+	--gray-700: #ffffff;
+	--gray-800: #ffffff;
+	--gray-900: #ffffff;
+	--light: #ffffff;
+	--muted: #1e1e1e;
+	--gray-100: #1e1e1e;
+	--gray-200: #1e1e1e;
+	--white: #1e1e1e;
+	--black: #303030;
+	--background: #ffffff;
+}
+
+* {
+	border-color: var(--primary);
+}
+
+.border {
+	border-color: var(--primary) !important;
+}
+
+.form-control {
+	background: transparent;
+	border-color: var(--primary) !important;
+}
+
+.btn {
+	background: transparent;
+	border-color: var(--primary) !important;
+}
+
+.form-control:disabled, .form-control[readonly] {
+	background: transparent;
+	border-color: var(--primary) !important;
+}
+
+.btn-success {
+	border-color: #38A169 !important;
+}
+
+.btn-danger {
+	border-color: #E53E3E !important;
+}
+
+#frontpage .pseudo-submit-form.card .card-body .form-control {
+	border-color: transparent !important;
+}
+
+.btn-lg {
+	border-color: transparent !important;
+}
+
+pre {
+	color: #CFCFCF;
+}
+
+.transparent {
+	background: None !important;
+}
+
+blockquote {
+	color: var(--gray-400);
+}
+
+#profilestuff > * {
+	color: var(--gray-400) !important;
+}
+
+.comment-anchor:target, .unread {
+	background: #00000055 !important;
+}
+
+#frontpage .post-title a:visited, .visited {
+	color: #7a7a7a !important;
+}
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diff --git a/files/classes/user.py b/files/classes/user.py
index a5154aa1e..d177cbbd8 100644
--- a/files/classes/user.py
+++ b/files/classes/user.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ from files.helpers.security import *
 import random
 from os import environ, remove, path
 
-defaulttheme = environ.get("DEFAULT_THEME", "midnight").strip()
+
+defaulttheme = "TheMotte"
 defaulttimefilter = environ.get("DEFAULT_TIME_FILTER", "all").strip()
 cardview = bool(int(environ.get("CARD_VIEW", 1)))
 
@@ -631,4 +632,4 @@ class User(Base):
 	def filter_words(self):
 		l = [i.strip() for i in self.custom_filter_list.split('\n')] if self.custom_filter_list else []
 		l = [i for i in l if i]
-		return l
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+		return l
diff --git a/files/routes/settings.py b/files/routes/settings.py
index d113ef605..53e486800 100644
--- a/files/routes/settings.py
+++ b/files/routes/settings.py
@@ -278,7 +278,9 @@ def settings_profile_post(v):
 
 	theme = request.values.get("theme")
 	if theme:
-		if theme in {"dramblr", "reddit", "classic", "classic_dark", "transparent", "win98", "dark", "light", "coffee", "tron", "4chan", "midnight"}:
+		if theme in {"TheMotte", "dramblr", "reddit", "classic", "classic_dark",
+			"transparent", "win98", "dark", "light", "coffee", "tron", "4chan",
+			"midnight"}:
 			if theme == "transparent" and not v.background: 
 				return {"error": "You need to set a background to use the transparent theme!"}
 			v.theme = theme
diff --git a/files/templates/settings_profile.html b/files/templates/settings_profile.html
index 6b0ae14f6..2c513f3d3 100644
--- a/files/templates/settings_profile.html
+++ b/files/templates/settings_profile.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 							<div class="input-group mb2">
 								<select autocomplete="off" id='theme' class="form-control" form="profile-settings" name="theme" onchange="post_toast(this,'/settings/profile?theme='+document.getElementById('theme').value, '1')">
 								
-								{% set themes = ["dramblr", "reddit", "transparent", "win98", "dark", "light", "coffee", "tron", "4chan", "midnight"] %}
+								{% set themes = ["TheMotte", "dramblr", "reddit", "transparent", "win98", "dark", "light", "coffee", "tron", "4chan", "midnight"] %}
 								
 								{% for entry in themes %}
 									<option value="{{entry}}" {% if v.theme==entry %} selected {% endif %}>
@@ -623,4 +623,5 @@
 {% include "emoji_modal.html" %}
 {% include "gif_modal.html" %}
 
-{% endblock %}
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+{% endblock %}
+