Adding colour schemes

[Aaron_Walsh]

Sorry to jump in, as it isn’t this theme-specific, but how do we get these color schemes added to our own forum?

[Moin]

You can install them with themes or add them at appearance → color schemes. When you go to /admin/customize/colors and click “New” to add a color scheme, you can choose, for example, Dracula as the base palette.

Allow users to select new color schemes

This is a guide for making new color schemes available for all users to choose from their profile preferences. Required user level: Administrator Include a new color scheme Go to Admin → Appearance → Color Schemes Create a new color scheme by clicking on the + New button Select the preferred base color palette from the list Check the Color scheme can be selected by users option Make the appropriate palette adjustments, if needed Save the color scheme [Co…

[Aaron_Walsh]

@Moin

ou can install them with themes

When I install the themes, this option never pops up or doesn’t update?

@Moin

admin/customize/colors

I like the colors that are set on Meta, so I would appreciate the colors without guessing .

[Moin]

When you for example install this theme, not only the dracula theme is added to admin/customize/themes but also a dracula color scheme is added to admin/customize/colors

@Aaron_Walsh

colors without guessing

You don’t have to guess. If you don’t want to install the theme, you can check whether the palette is offered as part of the base palettes you can choose from, when you create a new color scheme.

You can also find the colors in the theme’s about.json. For example

dracula/discourse/blob/master/about.json#L18-L39

Or you can use the browser’s inspect tool to find the hex codes of the colors of the color scheme you selected at a forum. Just right-click on the page, choose “Inspect,” and you’ll see the CSS styles, including the color values, which are usually almost at the bottom.