# Better color schemes selector

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190 "2018-06-19T09:37:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/1 "2018-06-19T09:37:12Z")

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Choosing a color scheme is a visual decision, so we should do better than describe it with mere words like we do now:

 ![29](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/5/d5b1c4ddcadcbf4b6173810957223fdf6e79a34d.png)

Slack does this very well with their sidebar themes:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/b/db9c868dbd9cd84a6229e5485846ecdbff5be27e.jpg)

Perhaps there’s a simple way to automagically create these types of thumbnails using techniques similar to [https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-styleguide-plugin/67405?u=erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-styleguide-plugin/67405)?

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### Author: ![\_vincent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/_vincent/32/119557_2.png) [@\_vincent](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_vincent)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/2 "2018-06-19T09:41:47Z")

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With all these new schemes coming, this would be a nice addition.

I believe there could be a lead: [GitHub - csquared/IMGKit: Uses wkhtmltoimage to create JPGs and PNGs from HTML · GitHub](https://github.com/csquared/IMGKit)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/3 "2018-06-19T23:23:48Z")

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Yes that would be awesome cc @sam @awesomerobot @Johani – we should have this ready after the color theme contest!

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/4 "2018-06-19T23:27:29Z")

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The first step here would be to add this to the wizard, agree we should wait till the competition is done and then add 6-9 of the best options to a wizard step.

After wizard is done we can think about `/admin` which has a lot more edge cases.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/5 "2018-06-19T23:28:57Z")

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Ah yes great idea, then they can simply run `/wizard` if they want to change color schemes. Perfect!

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-color-schemes-selector/90190/6 "2018-07-27T17:16:00Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> After wizard is done we can think about `/admin` which has a lot more edge cases.

Wizard is done! 🎉 But this work probably needs to be preceded by: [Color schemes should be specific to a single theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/color-schemes-should-be-specific-to-a-single-theme/93290)