Add more color options

Actually one other person asked for this recently so I will add this in the next version. Seems like a no brainer but I just didn't really think about until now :)

I would also like to see this happend

If there is a way to format the node title/content the same way as a block(not with the same colors) i would use on my site.

@4 - not via the theme or color settings, you would have to add it manually in the CSS, show me what you want and I'll help you with the CSS.

I want the node similar to a block, where the title of node have a background color(with rounded corners if possible) and all the rest of node another background color, just as each node is a big block on the middle of my site.
And will be better if the nodes can have two set of colors, like the tables in drupal, so will be easy to see where a node end and other start.

I also wish to have some sort of coloring or line for each node so that user will have a friendly visibility of nodes.

Look at my site at www.jaguaribe.net, if you want something like this, i can provide my changes.

Also, please add the ability to change the colour of the text in both 1) the Site Title and 2) the Primary Tabs -- they are currently set to only white -- that should be an easy standard feature to include. But the basic background colour of the content is most important as it influences the look of the site most.

Looking forward to the update!

OK, so if we have control over:

1. Site name
2. Site slogan
3. Header text (other than the above)
4. Main menu links
5. Page background

This is all doable of course and will just take a bit of messing about to get it right. Sounds awesome and a good set of improvements.

Just changing the title to reflect the issue better, I'm working on this now :))

OK, I have made a commit to the 7.x-1.x branch which should become available within the next 24 hours or so (dev releases only update once per day), I have added quite a few colorable options including:

page background
site name
slogan
menu bar link color
block title color

As a consequence of these changes I have to change the way color schemes work - in all previous versions the color schemes were very simple and you only needed to change a few colors and the whole theme changed automagically to suit the overall colors, now we have to be more granular and have more colors, for various reasons (how color module works) its much better to never reuse a color in the colors.css stylesheet, so you will see that all these new color options have very subtle variations on white or a very light gray, also the footer changed to a basic dark gray gradient, and borders, and sticky nodes are all now shades of gray. The upshot is that you now have much more granular control over these elements.

Marking as Needs Review - even though there is no patch the commits have been made but are not permanent until we make an actual new release.

Please test when this becomes available, its very hard for me to find the time to test everything, such as every color scheme, please test with various modules such as superfish especially. Cheers.

Its not possible to change the content background color.

Is for future planning to add a feature Content Background Color ?

Thanks Lennard

@14, that is what we just did, in fact you have been able to do this in the dev version since Feb 11th.

Oh thats fine. I hope its possible.

I use now the dev from Feb 25th i haved not see a content settings ^^
Only the Page background thats really cool feature but the contents are still in white.

the update must still be coming, they only update once per 24 hours, maybe slower at the moment since the git migration, not sure

ok, laugh if you will, my git noobness bit me here, I just pushed the code up now, so should be coming soon!

Thanks Jeff! I very much appreciate all your active work!

I really want to try out the latest dev version. I've done a lot of mods to the theme and want to keep them. How do I update to the dev theme without uninstalling the theme and losing all my changes? (I've searched for a guide to doing this in general too...but no luck.)

@Balmer - it will depend on what you have modified, for example if have modded the colors.css file? The important changes are all contained within two files - color.inc and colors.css. If you know how you could run a diff to see what the changes are and only port over the new stuff, manually so you can do it very carefully.

If you have made a custom color scheme then I suggest you take a screen grab of it (the color form), or at least write down all the hex colors so you have that recorded, some of it could get wiped out when you upgrade, even with a very careful porting over to your modded theme.

Does that make sense, its pretty early here... he he...

@19: Actually, I wrote down the settings and then just disabled the theme. I went to the directory, deleted it and then installed the new dev theme. Went to Appearance page and installed it, set as default and...all the settings were still there! Nothing was affected! :)

The problems I am having with the dev version:

1) It's not so obvious where additional colors can be change from the interface (ok, more of a note, I changed the colors no problem.) I went to Development, CSS Classess and checked off "Pages" and the page immediately switched color.)

2) After switching just the background of the basic text page, the colors of the superfish menu were messed up. Specifically, they went from white on blue all the time to Red text on blue if the link had not been visited and blue on blue for visited links.

The behavior seemed odd and was unexpected.

I also got the following errors:

Notice: Undefined index: slogan in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: sitename in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: ftop in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: ftop in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: fbottom in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: ftop in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: fbottom in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: ftop in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: fbottom in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: ftop in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: fbottom in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: blockht in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: blockht in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: header in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: header in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: mmenu in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: mmenu in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).
Notice: Undefined index: mmenu in _color_rewrite_stylesheet() (line 432 of /home/content/29/7439429/html/drupal/modules/color/color.module).

Any suggestions on getting the superfish menu back to normal? Hoping you don't say, "Edit the Color.CSS"

The undefined index issue probably just needs the cache cleared, the superfish thing I will look at.

And just as a note to anyone else experiencing the same thing, you can manually change the menu colors in the superfish.css file under modules->all->superfish->css->superfish.css :)

I would like to know too how to add more color options.

I added one more color to the set in color.inc but it's not available..
I also didn't found how to connect it to the "theme"...so it can be in use.

Someone can help me please ?

Thanks