From f5a946369972ef0961296da35b4413f80f9be0c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Carpenter <alex.carpenter@clerk.dev>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 14:28:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ui): import createTheme types relatively for
 deterministic declarations

---
 .changeset/stable-createtheme-type-imports.md | 2 ++
 packages/ui/src/themes/createTheme.ts         | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/stable-createtheme-type-imports.md

diff --git a/.changeset/stable-createtheme-type-imports.md b/.changeset/stable-createtheme-type-imports.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a845151cc84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/stable-createtheme-type-imports.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+---
+---
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/themes/createTheme.ts b/packages/ui/src/themes/createTheme.ts
index 90bb209361c..d63b28803a2 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/themes/createTheme.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/themes/createTheme.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-// Temp way to import the type. We will clean this up when we extract
-// theming into its own package
 import type { DeepPartial } from '@clerk/shared/types';
-import type { BaseTheme, Elements, Theme } from '@clerk/ui/internal';
 
 import type { InternalTheme } from '../foundations';
+import type { BaseTheme, Elements, Theme } from '../internal/appearance';
 
 interface CreateClerkThemeParams extends DeepPartial<Theme>, Pick<BaseTheme, 'cssLayerName'> {
   /**