I installed this theme Sam's Simple Theme , it uses light colors by default. I want to allow users to use it with dark colors. What is the best way to achieve this? Do I need to somehow install it two times and set different color palettes? Or there are better ways?

Can you go to the theme in customize and choose your dark theme? [sketch-1576165843408] Do you want a light and dark colour palette for the theme?

Yeah, but the issue is that you can select only one palette per installed theme. I wanted to make one theme available as two options, for light and dark palette. (btw I just realized that this theme is broken with dark palette, but I guess it should be fixable by simply not hard-coding the colors) …

The easiest way at the moment is to install the same theme twice and change the palette (and also the theme name, so you know which is which). It’s easier if the theme is remote (on git) because then all updates are centrally managed anyway. If the theme was built locally in the admin interface you…

I think using the default dark mode color scheme id would be the way to do this now. :+1: This would adapt the colour palette to match a browser’s preferences. You can also use the Dark/Light Mode Toggle to allow easy swopping between the two.

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Soutien

ondrej Décembre 12, 2019, 3:52 2

Pouvez-vous accéder au thème dans customize et choisir votre thème sombre ?

Souhaitez-vous une palette de couleurs claire et sombre pour le thème ?

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