I’ve tried to create a completely custom color scheme by defining my colors in the about.json file of my theme on GitHub. Unfortunately only some of my color definitions are being respected in the site. For example, in my json scheme I define: "success_low": "DDE2B2”, However my style guide shows…

[image] mk0r: For example, in my json scheme I define: "success_low": "DDE2B2”, However my style guide shows a different (computed) color for var(--success-low) i see there is an underscore in the first (success_low) and a dash in the second (success-low). you can always paste your color pa…

Thanks, I will go through and check all the underscores vs dashes. Is there any reference json file I could find somewhere that has a reference for all variables, with dashes and underscores in the right places?

I originally used the “solarized” theme as a reference

This is extremely confusing. In the styleguide the labeled css variables use dashes: [Screenshot 2025-01-26 at 17.07.38] Whereas in this (and other) example schemes they have underscores: about.json main { "name" : "Gruvbox", "about_url" : "https://github.com/exodrifter/…

you have another old topic that may help you with this [image] Reference for full color customization Development I would like to create two of my own color schemes where I choose all the color variables (I don’t like the computed/transformed values). Is…

Unfortunately that thread didn’t solve the issue. I’m still confused – is there no clear guidance available about how to set every color? And what the correct syntax/names are in the json vs the css variables?

did you look at this? app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/color_transformations.scss main // standard color transformations, use these if possible, and add any new dark-light-diffs here // any variables defined here can be added in theme color schemes // all variables shou…

Yes I’ve read them, but there’s no complete reference for all the color variables that I could see. I based my about.json file on the “solarized” theme which seemed to have all the variables declared. I’m going to try again from clean slate and report back and use developer tools to see what the iss…

Challenges creating a custom color palette

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Lilly (Lillian ) January 27, 2025, 12:43am 2

i see there is an underscore in the first (success_low) and a dash in the second (success-low).

you can always paste your color palette here as it appears in the json file for us to have a look.

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Challenges creating a custom color palette

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