sbulen/smf-cotton-candy-theme

Theme for SMF forums

Cotton Candy

Overview:

Candy is a light pastel theme, hinting at cotton candy being spun. Suitable for anime, cartoon, or similar light-hearted themes. Or sites featuring serial killers.

This theme is built up from the 2.1 Curve2 theme, with several features added for flexibility.

The goal is to provide a single very flexible, usable and feature-rich theme. A theme that is usable right out of the box - no need to even build a custom banner, it dynamically builds one for you.

This theme is, in part, a demo. Theme designers should feel free to borrow code & ideas. It is very straightforward to copy these features over to any theme.

Features:

• Background animations. A simple framework is provided for animations.
• Simplified yet flexible color palette. The forum's entire palette of colors may be updated on the Current Theme admin screen.
• Even the colors for checkboxes and radio buttons are under user control. Including their backgrounds... No more blinding white squares on dark themes...
• Real-time color updates.
• SVG graphics can use style elements from the theme. E.g., the hamburger icon is dynamically colored to match your palette.
• Dynamically built SVG forum banners, guaranteed to match your forum color scheme.
• Color palette is automatically propagated down into the sceditor as well.

Requirements:

• The Color Changer mod must be installed. Or bad things happen.
• Javascript must be enabled for any of the js to work, including some admin functions as well as the animations.
• 2.1 only.

Limitations:

• Some browsers handle the animations much better than others... Modern browsers will be fine. This was tested with Firefox, Pale Moon, Chrome, Edge and Safari (iPhone only).