# How to use theme color scheme

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-theme-color-scheme/87148
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-theme-color-scheme/87148 "2018-05-10T09:06:59Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-theme-color-scheme/87148/4 "2018-07-27T17:13:27Z")

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> [@Color schemes should be specific to a single theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/color-schemes-should-be-specific-to-a-single-theme/93290):
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> There are two hairy issues with our current implementation of color schemes: color schemes are globally available to every theme and are not theme specific. offering more than one user-selectable color scheme for a theme requires you to “duplicate” the theme as a separate entity Neither of the above should be true. It is far more common for a site (or app) to offer multiple color schemes (most commonly one light and one dark) rather than multiple themes; practically all companies will just w…

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