I’ve enabled two more “off-white” themes for review.
Isabelle - “An Animal Crossing inspired theme”; whimsical and very rounded.
Avid Reader - papery grey and showing avatars only next to posts. A feature here is a serif body font.
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I have updated the “Avid Reader” theme so it now will display the chat icon and chat and profile drop downs correctly.
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Just wanted to say thanks for adding Isabelle – I’ve been using it since first joining and I love the vibe. The “chill game feel” suits this place very well for me. And I just love tapping the giant round buttons.
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As far as I know, I’m using the default.
Granted, I don’t have a monitor and I’m using a screen reader with earphones, so the forum could be displayed in #FFFFFF on #FFFFFF and I’d never know it.
Back when I had a working eye, I tended to prefer light text on darker backgrounds and used white on black as my default for terminal windows.
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Here are the current stats. What’s your favorite?
| Number of users | Theme name |
|---|---|
| 171 | IntFiction |
| 97 | Dark |
| 18 | Dracula |
| 10 | Vincent |
| 9 | Screen Reader |
| 8 | Graceful |
| 6 | Minima |
| 6 | SoBlue |
| 4 | Essential |
| 3 | Isabelle |
| 3 | zeronoise |
| 3 | Ghost |
| 3 | Air |
| 2 | Hibiscus |
| 2 | FKB Pro |
| 2 | Geometric |
| 1 | Avid Reader |
| 1 | Brutalist |
| 1 | Modest |
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SoBlue gang, checking in
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I’m surprised more don’t use Brutalist. I know when we migrated to Discourse there were so many people going “I don’t want pictures and avatars and all that cruft in the way of my messages, I just want the text!”
Brutalist probably offers this the best with plain text with tags and clickable elements to filter. Like the architecture style, it’s no-frills utilitarian design.
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Okay, but bright.
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I got’chu, fellow vampire… 
You can change color scheme independent of your theme in profile>preferences>interface. Change the Regular “color scheme” dropdown from Theme Default to something else.
(Note, some color schemes are designed for other themes and may not be optimal with regard to highlights and button text colors, but you can experiment to see what you like.)
You can choose Intfiction Grey or Intfiction Parchment, I actually like Air-Dark with Brutalist.
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I like using avatars to know who’s been posting recently in a thread before clicking
(added: SoBlue with “copy of blue” scheme specifically)
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For a while SoBlue wasn’t grabbing the correct color scheme when you use the sidebar switcher, but I think they have fixed it?
SoBlue was actually a theme I tweaked to make a non-black dark theme (I think the base theme was “Reddit-ish”) and I made it blue and tweaked some highlights not to clash. That’s why it’s “Copy of SoBlue” - I named the theme then tweaked it later because highlights were the same color as background text. Theme default color schemes cannot be altered, so it requires making a copy of them. I think I could possibly just make it “SoBlue” instead of “copy of…”
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I was a little confused at first, but I found my way. It’s a very nice alternative to the usual dark theme.
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I’m a Dracula person and I’ll never change—
Oh, my, god, Ghost is beautiful…
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I remain a SoBlue user too!
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Apparently I’m one quarter of the Essentialists.
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Shame we don’t have any IF inspired themes. Trying to imagine what a ZORK forum theme would look like.
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Yes yes yes! Please! I second…
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Yeah, me too… it’s hard because its…like text…and a vibe…
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Based on discussion I made a theme experimentally that I hope evokes Zork/Infocom/Text Adventures. I started by using a computer-y fixed-width font but that was absolutely ugly, so I went more by how Zork and Infocom games kind of feel in an ideal transcript while also going with my preferences for a dark theme with black/silver/white and bits of purple (magick is purple, right?) and a serif-font since there aren’t enough themes with serif body-text. May I present:
West of House
One other minor tweak: the “like” button is a thumbs-up instead of a heart.
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