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Anyone willing to help out with a custom theme? (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by poVoq to c/meta

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Might be nice to give this instance more Solarpunk like colors. I am currently a bit short on time to work on this myself, but contributions are welcome.

A nice banner image would be cool as well.

The documentation on theming is not very detailed, but it seems to be mostly just Bootstrap 4: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/theming.html (Edit: that docu might be outdated and it is actually Bootstrap 5 now)

An example for a instance with a custom theme is here: https://compuverse.uk/

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[–] okasen 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have created a theme. I'm rather pleased with it but I'm still happy to hear feedback since I kind of just... created it with no general input. (I did intend to base it on Everforest! And then I had the thought "what if POSTS were LEAVES"). And no offense taken if we decide to go a different route for a custom theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOu5kjXUdg (or scroll down to see a still)

There's still some wonky bits too, obviously. Most notably the pinkish line to the left side of the comments, which I can't remove because it's hard-coded into the HTML. (I have half a mind to open a PR to Lemmy's UI to remove it... or at least remove the dang !important flag)

If we do use this theme, I can of course send along the vine graphic (it's just pixel art I threw together) and the font for the SLRPNK name, which is free to use through google fonts.

[–] okasen 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worth noting: I still need to go through all the places text appears and check colour contrast for accessibility. I've been keeping an eye out for places where the contrast is too low, but I need to do a proper check.

[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those leaves are a pretty cool idea. But I am not 100% sold on the colour choices though. Especially the blue at the top seems a bit out of place.

Also, did you test this with the new 0.18-rcs that switched to Bootstrap5 completely?

[–] okasen 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha yeah colour choosing is where my design skills do fall over and die. (I was going for a blue sky kind of thing but it DOES look weird). I'll try it with one of those colour palettes, they're pretty nice!

I'm 99% sure it's tested against 0.18 for lemmy-ui (I'm just working against the most recent main branch but I haven't pulled in a bit) but I'll make sure yeah.

[–] okasen 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I'd tested against 0.18 but not a recent enough one, I've pulled down the newest (working) version with bootstrap 5 now and I'll be using that when changing up the colours. I am noticing some new issues with bootstrap 5, but nothing major.

[–] poVoq 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great. I'll look further into how to enable custom themes when upgrading to 0.18, which should happen in the next couple of days.

[–] poVoq 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe try it with one of the colour palettes from here: https://forums.yoworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=218674