[Cuis-dev] ThemeCustomizer: Save and Manage Personalized Themes

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

While we’re on this subject, allow me to point out for future consideration
that there’s a modern approach to themes using the perceptually uniform
color space that I posted about last week (OKCLH). It’s easy to implement.
We shouldn’t use RGB or HSL for themes (designers seem to be saying this,
lately). See for example
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/better-dynamic-themes-in-tailwind-with-oklch-color-magic
This allows to customize themes by changing only the hue (only one
dimension) instead of moving all parameters simultaneously. It also allows
to make themes that can work well in both dark and light modes. And
simplifies the specification of different shades by changing only the
lightness parameter. Currently we hand-tweek shades (for different states
of buttons, for example) by hand in one particular theme, and if we switch
to other colors sometimes they don’t work well (see the contrast problem
exemplified in that page with HSL, that goes away with OKCLH). I think we
should at some point consider moving to OKCLH, and we should also pay more
attention to what web designers are doing, and what is being adopted in
browsers and in the newest specification of CSS, etc.


On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 00:52 ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Brenda,
>
> Thanks much for this.
>
> I have not been a user of Themes myself, but might suggest doing a
> better UI for adding colors.
>
> If you `Feature require: 'UI-MetaProperties' you will see purple
> selections in Morph Menus.
>
> The idea here is that you can "single click" brings up an editor to
> change the value and one can also drag a value and drop it on another
> menu item to set it for the target Morph.
>
> If you click select #color: or #borderColor: you will get a choice of
> named Color Palettes or a Color Editor.
>
> You can drag a color from a Color Palette or the Color Editor onto a
> color type menu-item or between color menu-items of different Morphs.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to point out that there is code you can use to
> display color choices and use Drag 'n Drop rather than typing in hex
> color strings.
>
> I am a visual thinker and doing things visually makes more sense to me.
>
> Again, great start at this!  Fun to see!
>
> Good on ya,
> -KenD
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