Help Creating Custom Skins

darkpollo

I have been reading the docs (nothing there about skins) and the forum search, with again little luck, so creating this topic to get some directions.

I want to create a custom skin, based on the current default one, just modifiying a little bit the basic colours.

I have not been able to find the following things:

What is the list of variables we can override, I found this https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch/tree/v5/dist with the skins, but not sure how to use that to create a skin.
What are the values or which one is the default skin when using harmony theme on a fresh new install.
where can I prevent the users of changing the skin, I am sure I saw this on the admin, but I cannot find it anymore... so not sure it is even there or I dream it.

Having the default as guide will be really useful to replace some colours with others keeping the same look and feel.

I was also reading this one https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17433/help-with-custom-skin-in-v3

and tried using this skin code:

$primary: #FF5C5C;
$secondary: #FFCCCB;
$body-bg: #FFFFFF;
$body-color: #333333;

But this had no effect for example on the buttons or icons or anything that I could see.
So not sure if that is working at all.

Thanks!

darkpollo

Another topic found related.
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17658/how-can-i-edit-the-harmony-theme

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17658/how-can-i-edit-the-harmony-theme

darkpollo

I am trying to edit the following parts of the frontpage, so far no luck but the icons (which is the primary and secondary) and I was only able to do this using the /admin/appearance/customise#bsvariables and rebuilding, not using the custom skins, as that does not seem to change anything.

darkpollo

Reply to myself for others with the same issues:
If you go to the github above, you will find these files for each skin: https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch/blob/v5/dist/darkly/_variables.scss

Those are the variables you can use to create a skin or to modify under the setting (which is what I am using as the custom skin did not work for me).
For the ones that you do not want to modify, just delete them and the forum will use the default.

I was able to replace almost everything I needed and now the forum has a look and feel different which is what we needed.