# Category mentions unreadable on dark theme

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [29 januari 2016 om 03:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679 "2016-01-29T03:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2016 om 03:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/1 "2016-01-29T03:04:30Z")

</div>

Can we get some dark theme CSS love for the [category mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-categories-instead-of-groups/14697/73) ?

Currently unreadable:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/6/c67a24054835314e6829b441181bb4a0afe7dd7d.png)

**Black** seems to be explicit in the CSS

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/stylesheets/common/components/hashtag.scss>

#Contribute > Bug

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2016 om 03:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/2 "2016-01-29T03:08:04Z")

</div>

Sure I’ll look into this today.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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: [29 januari 2016 om 04:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/3 "2016-01-29T04:08:10Z")

</div>

This means dark-light-diff sass function was not used, but should have been.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2016 om 06:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/4 "2016-01-29T06:32:19Z")

</div>

Or blend-primary-secondary or choose-dark-light or whatever it was called @tgxworld check the file for all the function names, please 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2016 om 09:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/5 "2016-01-29T09:31:27Z")

</div>

Fixed:  
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/350f1685e52a72d4edeb12c38e292d7e77df168b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/350f1685e52a72d4edeb12c38e292d7e77df168b)

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/5/f501cef6a03b46a269983c69da29f7adf0c45573.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2016 om 09:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/7 "2016-01-29T09:31:49Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [30 januari 2016 om 09:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-mentions-unreadable-on-dark-theme/38679/8 "2016-01-30T09:32:08Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed after 24 hours. New replies are no longer allowed.