I love PatternSkin, it makes a new TWiki installation look so professional and polished. But as the winter draws near I sometimes feel that the default colours are rather cold - blues, greys etc. Is there any chance that someone with artistic inclinations could generate a "Warmer" version of pattern skin? One based around greens would be nice (VerdantPatternSkin?), and/or maybe a DesertPatternSkin.

This would also be an easy way to get a whole bunch of "new" skins into the SkinBrowser.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 19 Oct 2004

I like this idea and thought I might help move it along by simply listing all the colors used in PatternSkin css. Happily, this is already done in PatternSkinPalette. There's also some references there for resources for developing alternative color palettes.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 19 Oct 2004

what do you think about http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/?color=FF9966 ?

-- WillNorris - 20 Oct 2004

Not bad, not bad at all. A good candidate for Desert. Maybe be a wee bit pinky in my browser (firefox)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Oct 2004

Neat tool that twysted site. Can we get something like it integrated into PatternSkin so that the user can choose themselves?

-- MartinCleaver - 20 Oct 2004

It's not quite that simple. PatternSkinPalette list use of 50+ colors. Color.twysted.net generates a palette of 9 colors. Someone has to decide where these might be applied in PatternSkinPalette. Going down through the palette, I can see there are some very visible cool colors such as background header, link :link, :visited, and personal left bar background. But if you change these, how would it effect relation to other colors used. Will require some work to make it all work together.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 20 Oct 2004

PatternSkinPalette lists the main colors for the view page - I would focus on that set, then change the other colors where fit.

-- ArthurClemens - 20 Oct 2004

Ok, sounds like a project that should get listed on the TWikiProjectsActionTracker. Do visit PleaseInstallPluginsAtTWikiDotOrg and add a vote for its installation if you think such projects won't otherwise get done unless we have a clear list through which newcomings can see which FeatureToDo are assigned to which TWikiCommunity member.

-- MartinCleaver - 20 Oct 2004

Just moving this along abit... Based on Arthur's comment, I went back through and narrowed the list of changes that would affect the "warmth" of view. Here's an intial chart. Feel free to modify. The s indicate my first cut of target colors to change. Since there's only six, maybe a quick change could be accomplished. I'll get some time tomorrow to play with this some more.

Text Colors
	#e24628	header h1
	#990000	header h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
	#F3EDE7	background header h2
	#8490A1	grayed out text .twikiGrayText
	#1e5bbd	link :link, :visited
	#b4d5ff	background hover link (note: the link color becomes #1559B3 on hover) :link:hover
	#666666	visited link in topic text .twikiTopic a:visited
	#7A4707	code pre, code, tt
	#000000	body text
Page colors
	#f8f8f8	page body
	#ffffff	main page .twikiMain
	#dddddd	main page border .twikiMain
Left bar
	#880000	body text in left bar .twikiLeftBar
	#22638C	top border left bar contents .twikiLeftBarContents
	#DFEDFD	personal left bar background .twikiLeftBarPersonal
	#cccccc	personal left bar border .twikiLeftBarPersonal
View page Action buttons
	#98A2B0	action buttons background view page .twikiTopicAction
	#ffffff	action buttons text and links
	#cccccc	action buttons links bottom border
Attachment and form table
	#888e9c	text color
	#000000	text color previous attachments .twikiAttachPage .twikiPrevious .twikiAttachments table
	#cccccc	borders
	#334455	sort indicator line .twikiAttachments a, .twikiForm a
	#ffffff	background color
	#f1f1f1	background color view page
	#DADADA	sort indicator background .twikiAttachments th.twikiSortedAscendingCol
Various colors
	#9E9E70	horizontal line hr
	#cccccc	left bar horizontal line hr
	#dddddd	TOC border .twikiToc
	#666666	TOC title .twikiToc .twikiTocTitle
	#F3EDE7	background search results header .twikiSearchResultsHeader, .twikiSearchString
	#cccccc	bottom border search results header .twikiSearchResultsHeader, .twikiSearchString

-- LynnwoodBrown - 20 Oct 2004