Yeah, I wasn’t sure if the content property would fly like that. Worth a shot.
I’ll dig some more and see if we can’t get it working right (wish we had a means for specifying alt site assets as part of a theme in discourse…). I might try setting the ::before property and see what’s what (failover is create a new node in the dom and overlay the logos).
Ok, thank you to everyone that pointed out the missing light logos! I was being kind of lazy and hack-y by abusing a CSS property, and now I’m doing things better (hopefully).
Those of you using FF and the dark theme should now see the correct light logos up top. (Thank you very much @DavidOliver for catching this and keeping me honest. ).
What’s neat to me is that you can set the dark theme only on specific devices if you want (so light theme on desktop for me, but dark for mobile. neat!).
I like the dark theme, but the color/brightness difference between the caught-up and unread threads text in the list is very slight—hard for me to distinguish.
I agree, the bottom reply button is the one thing that looks wonky with this version, and the problem is that its background is too light in color. For my personal taste, the page background could be a little darker than #484848 or #545454 (depending on the part of the page you look at), but it’s exactly that: personal taste. This is pretty easy on the eyes other than that one button. I could look at this for an extended period of time without getting tired eyes, and that’s the whole point, isn’t it?
@elGordo beat me to the reply. I am a slow poster .
I haven’t kept the dark theme on for extended use but I think it still needs some tweaking.
Remarks (What I am noticing as I write this post.)
The Reply (box) button is not as consistent and polished as the white theme’s.
a. It is grey scale; could use some color.
b. It darkens on hover rather than lighten like Bookmark, etc.
c. Text vs background contrast could be higher.
BTW, the Tracking button’s circle disappears on hover and could also use some color.
The usernames could be brighter. In the white theme, it is brighter than the name and has greater contrast against the background.
PS
I forgot to mention that it might be nice for guests to be able change the theme as well without registering or logging in.
Thank you for your replies! I did this in about 15 minutes, so it still needs some tweaking, yes. I’m going to use it for a little while and see what else comes to me.
Also, we can have multiple themes. Discourse don’t expose theme editing to non-administrative users so far as I know, but I’d be happy to upload and name themes that people come up with.
Part of the look of this is certainly due to my love of the zenburn theme. I’ve tried to move away from this theme several times, but it is like glued into my brain. It isn’t the darkest, but it is sufficient and I find the contrast to be very pleasing and readable. Zenburn doesn’t tire my eyes like other themes seem to do.
The theme is just a handful of colors for the base (named as @darix suggested ):
Not a bad theme at all. It’s pretty similar in terms of contrast to the “Base 16 Tomorrow Dark” theme I use in Atom, although that uses different colors for different parts of syntax).