# Letting users select different themes

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/letting-users-select-different-themes/12624>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [11.Февраль.2014 16:08:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letting-users-select-different-themes/12624 "2014-02-11T16:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Daniel\_M](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Daniel_M)\
**Post date:** [17.Апрель.2016 19:12:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letting-users-select-different-themes/12624/16 "2016-04-17T19:12:49Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Coming soon to Meta 🌑 DARKNESS 🌑](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-new-moon-darkness-new-moon/31993/132):

> [@Coming soon to Meta new\_moon DARKNESS new\_moon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/131):
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> I made a quick mockup of what a theme selector could look like.  
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> [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d225f781196992b2dc83533f3c4a8ed0d4dfd9cd.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d225f781196992b2dc83533f3c4a8ed0d4dfd9cd.png)
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> Expanded (note that it only shows part of the menu, as I only had time to make one part; ignore the font glitches):
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> [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/657e39a226407397ac293f1f0fa2dd0142ca0549.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/657e39a226407397ac293f1f0fa2dd0142ca0549.png)
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> Another option would to have boxes next to the name with the colors (like in the category color selection dialog).

> [@Coming soon to Meta new\_moon DARKNESS new\_moon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/coming-soon-to-meta-darkness/31993/132):
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> I assume you are talking about an admin selector.
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> We would like to ship with some sane defaults here:
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> ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/d/4d711542fac98f0d91b3e15ef97443923b7a28ad.png) 
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> More than happy to see visual mockups on how to improve this UI.
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> That said this topic has totally run its course and needs to be split off. Closing it in favor of topics with specific action points and feedback.

No, that was a mockup of a per-user theme selector, located under preferences (in fact, the mockup was based off of a “custom field” on a VM that I installed discourse on a while back). I still think that a built-in per-user theme would be better than installing an extension (+ the user doesn’t have to know how to write CSS).

BTW, when I quoted my post, discourse didn’t automatically copy images.

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