(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 announcements As of v2.3.3 (released early September) you can now override our automatically-generated SASS color variables ($primary-low, $primary-medium, etc) in remote them…

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?

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 co…

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: [image] GitHub - oerog/CustomSettings Contribute to oerog/CustomSettings developmen…

How to overrule a color variable for one theme only?

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david (David Taylor) January 20, 2020, 11:27am 4

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

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How to overrule a color variable for one theme only?

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