My LWN Theme
Author: Jake Bauer | Published: 2020-06-22
A recent blog post by Amolith about how he set up his LWN theme made me want to review my settings and tweak them to fit a colour scheme I now like (this website’s theme) compared to what I set up over a year ago. I spent some time switching all of the colours over to something that would mimic this site, since I like this colour scheme, and I figured I’d post about it too in case people are looking for more theme ideas:
Display Preferences
| Option | Value |
|---|---|
| Page background colour | #25252a |
| Left column background | #36363a |
| Middle column background | #36363a |
| Headline background | #36363a |
| Form/byline background | #36363a |
| Sidebar background | #36363a |
| Text colour | #cccccc |
| Link colour | #83b3d8 |
| Visited link colour | #a696cc |
| Quoted text (in email) colour | #dc00dc |
| Old (seen) comment background colour | #111111 |
| Navigation box on printable page | Checked |
| Minimum width of main text column (em) | 40 |
| Maximum width of main text column (em) | 50 |
| Display old parent in unread comments screen | Unchecked |
New page engine preferences
| Option | Value |
|---|---|
| Use the new page engine | Checked |
| Left column color | #36363a |
| Maximum width for handset presentation (em) | 48 |
| Fixed navigation menu on small screens | Checked |
| Font family to use | browser-determined |
Quoted text preferences
| Option | Value |
|---|---|
| Quoted text style | italic |
| Quoted text weight | normal |
| Quoted text colour | #bb5555 |
| Quoted text background | #25252a |
Screenshots
Conclusion
I really appreciate that LWN exposes stylesheet settings so that users can set their own themes. Aside from being the highest quality Linux (and sometimes general Open Source) news source, that’s a good reason to subscribe to them.
This is my fifty-second post for the #100DaysToOffload challenge. You can learn more about this challenge over at https://100daystooffload.com.