I have a default primary colour: #4d238c. The issue is: the color for $primary-medium being generated (#a179de) doesn’t pass accessibility guidelines, so i need to make it darker. It seems laborious to change it in all places where the system is using the medium colour when I could just over write …

Yeah totally understand this, at the moment there’s no way to directly override any of the secondary variables we automatically generate because those are all set in stone when the CSS is built. So in the short term, you will need to manually make these changes. Some explanation: The color schemes…

Hey Kris Thanks for the reply so quickly. Yes, our primary concern is accessibility as we are using your product in a governmental context. I have worked around the accessibility of the contrast in a step by step manner, but as discussed it would be good to have the default colours accessible. T…

We stumbled onto this thread because of a similar issue, we solved it with a workaround by adding the following to the theme’s common css: :root { --primary-medium: #666666; }

$primary-medium SCSS variable problems

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$primary-medium SCSS variable problems

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