(i’m sorry I couldn’t find where this would fit most, chose dev) I have 3 themes. In one theme, the calculation of $primary_low yields a color with too little contrast with the bgcolor. I have tried tweaking the primary color (the BG color can’t be changed due to it being a branding color), but to…

Check out @awesomerobot ’s guide here: [image] Override values for auto-generated color variables megaphoneAnnouncements As of v2.3.3 (released early September) you can now override our automatically-generated SASS color variables ($primary-low, $primary-medium…

Ahh thank you! unfortunately it is a local theme, and will not be remote. Is there a way i could do this in any other way?

This is considered an advanced feature, so it’s not available in the UI. You can use the theme cli on ‘local themes’.

glad it can be done in some way :slight_smile: this whole ruby stuff is still way too advanced for me though, I really hope the override could be available sometime in the future also for local themes. Going to consider which one I can do with my level of knowledge… I’m a total github noob so makin…

Remote themes are really easy. I’d never used GitHub before and I had no idea what about.json meant but I’ve used it for a few themes without any problem. You just make a local theme and then upload it to GitHub and then you can add stuff to the about.json file on GitHub and you end up with a bunch …

Here are the way too detailed instructions. Let me know if it doesn’t work as advertised. Create a GitHub account if you don’t already have one. In Discourse, Export your theme: Admin → Customize → Select the theme you want to export [image] This saves the theme as a .zip file on your comp…

thank you so much @smrtey for creating this step by step guide! Today I finally had time to sit down for this and follow it. It worked like a charm! These were my first steps on github too, I had never created an account or a repository. So thank you once again. Perhaps this could be included in t…

Custom settings are also a great thing I discovered. You need to add a settings.yml file to your theme or component’s github repository. Here is a sample component with settings you can customize: https://github.com/oerog/CustomSettings.git This is the settings.yml file that sets the variables $h…

How to overrule a color variable for one theme only?

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How to overrule a color variable for one theme only?

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