# Modernizing the Foundation theme

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-the-foundation-theme/395331>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [February 6, 2026, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-the-foundation-theme/395331 "2026-02-06T17:52:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 110

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-the-foundation-theme/395331/110 "2026-07-24T11:15:17Z")

</div>

I think every theme is based on Foundation. It’s how a forum looks by default. There is no need for your theme to change a button color that already looks like it should by default. These defaults change now, which is why it affects all themes - even the Horizon theme is affected:  
You can see that the header is thinner, the chat icon is darker, and the button is no longer filled.

 ![Screenshot_20260724_130429_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/0/d/70daf984d4efe44621b76652c6975bd0cea153ed.jpeg)

 ![Screenshot_20260724_131311_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/2/6/626f9f21472a7a4774bc2b612864e64db5ce263c.jpeg)

  

What you just did is the advantage of the upcoming changes system: you can see how this affects your forum and act based on that before your forum has to use the new defaults.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modernizing-the-foundation-theme/395331)._