How to further customize tumblr theme?
The new theme I have is called Haute Couture by Fusels, and it offers very limited customization (under the ‘Appearance’ tab). It only allows me to change the color of the links. So, I’m hoping someone can help me with codes on how to change the background and font colors. Thank you!
If you’re comfortable with HTML’s Red-Green-Blue colour representation and you just want to make a one-time change to the background and text colours, or if you’re willing to re-edit the theme each time you want to make a change, then you can simply change the values of the ‘background-color’ and ‘color’ properties in this block:
body {
background-color: #fff;
font:normal 11px arial;
color: #000;
letter-spacing: 0px;
line-height: 15px;
text-align: normal;
background-color: #FFF;
}
Notice that ‘background-color’ appears twice in that block. That’s a bug in the theme. Delete one of those lines — it doesn’t matter which one. Then edit the remaining one to have the #RGB value of your desired background colour. The ‘color’ value controls the colour of the text.
If you want to change the theme so that you can choose these colours in the ‘Appearance’ tab then that’s only very slightly more complicated. This makes it much easier to experiment with colours and it will let you use the graphical colour chooser instead of having to work with #RGB or #RRGGBB values. To do this, edit that same block and change the ‘background-color’ and ‘color’ properties to this:
background-color: {color:Background} ;
and:
color: {color:Text} ;
Then a few lines above that block, immediately after this existing line:
add these two lines:
After you Save the edited theme, two new color boxes corresponding to these statements should be visible in the Appearance tab. (Don’t worry about the #RGB values in those two new lines. They’re just default values and they will be superseded by whatever new colours you choose in the Appearance tab.)
