# Reference for full color customization

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-for-full-color-customization/255158>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 14, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-for-full-color-customization/255158 "2023-02-14T20:48:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-for-full-color-customization/255158/4 "2023-02-14T21:59:16Z")

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As far as I know it’s just some additional, more fine tuned, calculations you could use in a theme or theme component. But they are not used in Discourse core.

If you’d want to write your color scheme with just the numbered values, you could re-declare the descriptive ones like that in your theme:

```plaintext
:root {
  --primary-high: var(--primary-800);
}

```

But then, there’s only numbered values for primary and tertiary.

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