FM23 Skin - Dark Polish

Here's a low-resolution friendly, clean, nice FM23 skin, the Dark Polish.

Here's a low-resolution friendly, clean, nice FM23 skin, the Dark Polish.

Default dark skin is how the SI user Ceyvol believes should be. If you want to keep the originality of the game with some not intrusive visual improvements, Dark Polish is what you are looking for. It's clean and low-res friendly. You can find the original thread on this skin here.

Dark Polish Skin 23 includes:

- consistent shades of grey
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- improved background selector
- "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- player pictures and role suitability pies on the tactic screen
- past meetings panel under the tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic colour)
- dynamic colours of sidebar elements, continue buttons and circle icons
- scoreboard with logos instead of ugly 6-letter names
- slightly modified player attributes section
- coloured backgrounds of social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- removed bold and uppercase from headings
- new FM flags instead of old ones in the language change menu
- fixed broken news feed pictures
- home button, FM button and Instant Result button in the match screen

About background selector:

- You can always replace backgrounds with your own at Dark Polish Skin 23\graphics\backgrounds.

About role suitability pies:

- Since some people don't like them, I made replacement files for those who wish to get rid of the pies only and keep the player photos. Go to: Dark Polish Skin 23\panels\tactics - and use two "(no pies)" files to replace their counterparts.

About scoreboard:

An optional scoreboard with full team names is included as well. Find the file labelled "(with team names)" at Dark Polish Skin 23\panels\match - and replace its counterpart with it.

About fonts:
This one is easy. If you wish to bring back the original FM23 fonts, just go to the Dark Polish Skin folder and delete "fonts" folder. Everybody has their own taste!

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Skin Installation Instructions

After you have downloaded a file, it will generally come in one of three formats:

• zip 
• rar
• 7z 

Zip files should be automatically supported by your OS and may show up as compressed folders; Rar and 7z files may require you to download some software to extract the files. 

The below software is recommended:

• Windows users - WinRar (Choose the most recent .exe file)

WinRar is installed using the .exe you download, following the instructions on-screen. Download the top option from the downloads page. 

• macOS users - The Unarchiver

To install The Unarchiver, simply double-click on the .zip file you download from their website, then drag the program it extracts (called 'The Unarchiver') into your apps folder.

Once you've installed the extracting software on your operating system, create a new folder and place your downloaded skin rar in it.

1. Extract the skin files as follows:

• Windows - Right-click on your rar. Choose WinRar from the menu, then select 'Extract Here'.

• macOS X - Right-click (or ctrl + click) on your zip, rar or 7z. Choose 'open with', then select 'The Unarchiver'.

2. Locating Your User Data Location

Once you have downloaded and extracted your files, move them over to your 'user data location' so the game can read them.

The default location of your 'user data location' will be slightly different depending on the OS you are using;

• Windows users - C:\Users\\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins

• Mac OS X users - /Users//Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2023/skins

Now open up your skins folder and place the folder you extracted inside it.

*if this folder doesn't exist, just create a new folder and call it 'skins'.

3. Displaying Skins In-Game

To select the skin in-game, load Football Manager 2023 and go into;

• Preferences > Advanced > Interface
• In this panel, you'll find an option called 'Skin' with a drop-down menu next to it. 

Select the drop-down menu to view your installed skins, then select and confirm.

If the skin is not showing in the game

If the skin you want isn't showing, then go to;

• Preferences > Advanced > Interface

Scroll down the interface page to Skin instructions; here, you must;

• untick 'Use caching to decrease page loading times' 
• tick 'Reload skin when confirming changes in preferences' 
• then select confirm

When you re-enter the preferences menu, it should have refreshed the list of skins to show your skin in the above list.

Once the skin is loaded, you can turn the skin cache back on and un-tick the 'always reload' button.

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• INFO
• Skins will only work on the version of the game they are designed for (so FM 23 skins will only work with FM 2023 and not older versions of the game, nor newer ones), and Touch and Full Mode skins aren't compatible, so if you are using the Touch version, you will only be able to use Touch skins.