I’m a bit confused by how custom themes support color palettes for light and dark mode. When I edit a new theme and select a palette, I can only select one. When I previewed, and I’m using Dark Mode, I didn’t see the color palette. When I switched my settings (OS settings) to light mode, I could see…

Under your user preferences, you may have set the dark mode color scheme to a different one than the default. You can view all color palettes at /admin/customize/colors, I believe.

Currently, sites need to have a colour scheme selected as the dark mode colour scheme - it isn’t built into the colour palette system to have two modes. We are, however, deep into work that will make this much more intuitive and include native light and dark modes for all themes, with user preferen…

“We are, however, deep into work that will make this much more intuitive and include native light and dark modes for all themes, with user preference deciding which they will see.” But to be clear, if I don’t want to offer options to the user, just have a site light/dark color scheme, that will be …

[image] Raymond_Camden: I don’t want to offer options to the user, just have a site light/dark color scheme, that will be possible, right? Yes, it is. You create two color palettes (or customize existing ones). I created my ‘Pink’ color palette based on the WCAG light palette and my ‘Dark Pi…

[image] Raymond_Camden: But to be clear, if I don’t want to offer options to the user, just have a site light/dark color scheme, that will be possible, right? Yes, with the upcoming light and dark palette support, this will be easy to do. As @Moin points out, this kind of thing is already pos…

Eagerly waiting. Had to rummage through a lot of topics to find this info. Will go ahead with the suggestion given in this topic for now. Any way we can add more variables to a color palette? Right now it seems I have to contend with the predefined variable only.

[image] hugh: With the upcoming changes, all palettes will have a light and a dark mode as part of the palette has this been implemented yet?

In a custom theme, how do you select the desired light and dark palettes?

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mcwumbly (Dave McClure) July 12, 2025, 4:21pm 11

Not yet, but we’re making progress. It’s our very top priority, though, so expect to see some stuff start to land in the coming weeks.

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In a custom theme, how do you select the desired light and dark palettes?

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