Proper route for custom colours

[AA-Turner]

I'm investigating adopting this theme for Econ-ARK, which has a palette of brand colours. I'm aware we can use custom stylesheets at assets/css/*.css, but I wondered if this would be the proper route to override theme colours, or if there's a better way?

Specifics would perhaps be the CSS variable names for the colours (or: integration into config.yaml), which to override, etc -- or a statement that users of this theme should leave the colours alone as it hurts consistency.

Thanks,
Adam

[alphapapa]

Hi fellow Adam,

At the moment we're doing some refactoring, adding dark mode, and planning to do some integration or unification with the pydata-sphinx-theme. So you might want to wait until that's done before doing too much customization.

Anyway, my rough intention (to the extent that my ideas are approved) is for colors to be defined "purposefully" (i.e. sets of color variables are named according to their purpose in the theme), which should make it easy to develop customizations (such as light/dark mode, etc) by applying different color values to those variables.

If you're interested, you could keep an eye on #229 and #225, and feel free to offer feedback on them.

Thanks.

[stefanv]

Meanwhile, overriding the variables is the correct way to set theme colors.