Choose from various handcrafted color themes for the UI
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Michael von Hohnhorst
A theme can have a huge impact on the vibe and feel of the app when we use it. Since PKM is a personal endeavor, the ability to customize one's thinking environment is important.
Options could involve:
- high contrast | normal
- cool gray | warm gray | neutral gray
- colorful | monochrome
Different color accents and hues
- very warm gray scale+ amber accent colors
- mauve-tinted gray scale + mauve accent color
Capacities will hand-craft all themes, so it won't be possible to insert custom CSS. This would simply generate too many degrees of freedom and potential UI issues. Special themes can however be requested, and if the interest is high enough, we'll develop them for everyone.
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Beth
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Theme
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The Pong
𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓼
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can nuhoglu
cool gray | warm gray | neutral gray
This is the key... The curretn blueish color is not that great.
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Alice Moore
I know themes are tough to implement, so my idea here is a little unfair in jumping steps. 😅
But it would be honestly amazing to be able to have different themes per object (not embedded, though). There's a different _feeling_ when working with task then, say, a creative draft.
Not sure exactly how it would work, but just food for thought.
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Simon Vollmer
I would love to have the option of a different theme.
the white is too bright, the dark one is fine on one of my machines, on another though I barely see any lines, card borders, etc.
just a warm grey one would be good compromise
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Dobby Dee
I would very much like some more themes to choose from. Mostly due to readability (e.g. the light theme is very...bright, being able to have the off white adjustable. Also dark theme has some issues as already mentioned here.
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Chris R
I find myself unable to see if I've selected options in the dark theme. Additionally, I really miss the Things theme from Obsidian. Would be cool if we could have user developed themes.
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Jake Gross
I have a really hard time picking out the "background colors" in the app from the dark theme. Some customization here could definitely help me find a color that "popped"... or basically gives me a chance to see where my headers are in the first place.
Luca Joos
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Less blue Dark Mode
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Lawrence Lee
warmer hue that gives off less blue light maybe even option to pick own color
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Daniel Toruno
Just gonna comment here to state that yes we need a dark mode without the blue tint please.
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Brian Wisti
There's an accessibility benefit from heavily extensible themes. I'm old so I need higher contrast and larger font sizes, and ideally some fonts with easily distinguished elements like Atkinson Hyperlegible or OpenDyslexic. I also benefit from more easily distinguished headings (distinct colors, greater size differences, maybe a level indicator), possibly due to ADHD. Making each of these separate user-configurable options would be a nightmare to use and a nightmare to maintain. That's why themes are nice.
I wouldn't expect or want you folks already doing excellent programming work on a cleanly structured application to add "UX and Accessibility Expert" to their job duties. That's why user-defined themes are nice.
This can be tweaked a bit with browser extensions, but those don't carry over from work environment to the next, and they don't help in the desktop app. That's why persistent user-defined themes are nice.
Even a small start could improve things. Define some global CSS variables, or document existing ones. Provide a CSS snippet uploader in advanced user settings. Include user-defined snippets on page load wherever that user may be – except maybe the mobile app. I'm not unreasonable. Gradually add more CSS variables as you're more confident the solution is working. If and when you're ready, provide a means to share, search, and install CSS snippets as themes.
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