The discussion revolves around customizing the colors used by the default letter avatar generator in Discourse. Initially, awesomerobot suggested adding a site setting to restrict colors, similar to the category colors setting.
Sam revealed that the letter avatar service already allows color specification, and proposed a restrict_letter_avatar_colors site setting to limit the colors used. This feature was later merged by maja.
A user, Joelle, expressed interest in customizing the default avatar colors to match their brand. awesomerobot pointed out that the restrict_letter_avatar_colors setting is available in admin > settings, allowing users to restrict the colors used by the default letter avatar generator.
Out of the box you can control Discourse’s base color scheme as well as the colors available for categories (the category colors setting). But if you want to use our avatar generation system you either have to live with the somewhat random color assignments, fork the letter-avatar microservice, or create your own randomly-assigned defaults.
It would be nice if there were a site setting that accepts a list of colors (similar to the category colors setting) that are randomly paired with letters from the avatar generator.
Is it possible to change the set of colours from which the default letter avatars pull from? I’m unable to find this setting or any more information about this.
Same as with categories, I would like to “brand” the default avatars with the brand colours.
