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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 7:48:09 GMT -5
I've created a new theme called "Experiment" which is hopefully an eventual dark theme. You can switch to in your Profile -> Edit Profile -> Settings -> Forum Theme .
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 7:54:30 GMT -5
BTW: This is actually a fair bit harder than our original theme. For our original, we just picked one of the preset color pallets. There is a dark theme for this color pallet, but it had the following issues: 1) The title was changed to grey scale, which honestly seems like to least problematic part of our current theme for a dark theme and that entire color more or less disappears into a grey scale. It's the color I most strongly associate with this forum so that feels counter productive 2) It leaves the posts at their original color meaning the content of the forum remains quite bright
The entire point of this exercise is to get to a color scheme that keeps the theme while pushing the posts dark enough that they would be bright text on dark background. The preset fails spectacularly on both accounts
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 7:58:30 GMT -5
Settings: Original, default dark, and current experimental (respectively)
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 8:05:44 GMT -5
Oh hey, this looks a lot better I found an HSV color picker and was able to more easily tweak the settings Attachments:
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 8:08:29 GMT -5
BTW: there is nothing I can do about the quick reply box that I can see
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 8:52:24 GMT -5
Some screenshots Attachments:
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 15:14:32 GMT -5
Using it for a bit, a few things are bugging me: 1) Orange star for Hive ranks. The light tips on the bottom right are a little annoying. Contrast to the black stars for admins that have a smooth gradient. On the brighter forum it's fine because it blends into the brighter background but on the darker forum, they turn into these annoying pricks of light. I can replace the image, but I'd need to edit it and I go with image editing about as well as a certain President goes with self-control 2) Quick reply.... I really should dive deeper to see if I can customize the background color at all. Clearly the comprehensive reply window can style the background so why can't this one? Probably in a different part of the code... 3) In the thread listing, the highlighted row is far too bright - the contrast against the text is horrendous. Need a darker option 4) The pagination/thread actions bar feels too light. I think I want something darker than the content. Might try swapping it with second post's colors
Items to look at tonight
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 18:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 10, 2020 21:35:01 GMT -5
1: So someone did post flat versions of the stars. Well, some of the stars. The best part: it's got them for administrator black, moderator green, and swamp-ranks yellow, but nothing for the orange hive ranks. Damn. support.proboards.com/thread/659023/new-star-images-ranks-themesOther than that, I'm not seeing obvious options. That said... the stars aren't really on-theme for us. We could upload just about any (small) image to use for these rank icons. As such, I'm curious whether there might be any suggestions for alternative icons 2: Complete. I decided to go a step further and make the reply boxes the color of the second entry so there's a nice contrast but I'm less than sold on the product. I could revert it so it's flat again. Alternatively, I'm mulling over swapping the first post and second post colors across the board which would make the reply box's exterior dark with a lighter reply box. I could also look at fiddling with the border of the text area. Side note: I looked at switching the text box from white to using forum colors but that affected the search bar but I was unable to figure out where the action dropdown is configured. At this point, the small bit of white is less upsetting to me than to have one be white and one very much not. I might dig through again to see if I can find it at some later point. Plus, just about the only place it matters is new thread window.... 3: Fixed 4: Went off the board entirely. I'm not entirely sold but someone with a more artistic eye than I may be able to give me alternate values to use there. Regardless, it looks a lot better than earlier
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Post by forgottenlord on Sept 15, 2020 9:44:29 GMT -5
Ok, new proposal: - Move swamp stars to green - Move hive stars to yellow - Move moderator stars to blue
And then use the flat stars
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