What's a Pi-hole setup without some kind of cool display, showing off all the essential stats in an easy-to-read way? After all, you want to see things getting blocked in real time, right? Not just to make sure everything is working correctly, but so you can sit back and smirk as you watch all the requests you've blocked go splat against your digital wall.

Fortunately, because the Pi-hole community is no stranger to tinkering, there are plenty of themes and styles out there for you to use. However, not all of them look as sleek as this cool, open-source retro one. The best bit is, you can edit as much or as little as you like, so if you have any good ideas as to what it's missing, you can add it in yourself.

The Cutie-Pi is an awesome theme for your Pi-hole display

Over on the Pi-hole subreddit, user PA100T0 posted the theme they designed. They call it "Cutie-Pi," and you can take a peek at it via the screenshots above. They show off the themes you can use with it, from a colorful Star Trek-esque dashboard to something that looks like a diagnostics screen on a Virtual Boy.

Here's how PA100T0 describes their project:

Last week I setup my first Pi-hole at home. Had extreme amounts of fun, both preparing the network/router, and setting up the Pi-hole.

When I finished, I was reorganizing and found I also had a case with a 3.5" LCD display. I decided to connect it to the Pi-hole and, out of boredom, built a kind of retro pixel-art dashboard (check the images for reference, there's different themes and I pretend to expand and improve them).

Features:

- 8-bit aesthetic with swipeable screens (stats, graphs, clients, system info)

- 8 color themes + optional CRT scanlines

- Touch and keyboard navigation

- One-line install

If you like what you see, pop over to the Cutie-Pi GitHub page and give it a spin. The creator does emphasise that this project is open-source, so if you want to squash some bugs, add some themes, or just do whatever you want with it, you can.

Once that's all set up, why not check out some of our Pi-Hole resources? For instance, one of our more expert tinkerers now has two Pi-holes on their network instead of one, and they think it's a great idea if you have the room for it.