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Updated by Henriette Darge over 6 years ago
### Current
When an admin wants to change the color scheme of OpenProject, there are several difficulties to face:
* The are a lot of colours to set, which are not in a logical order
* The name of the colors is the variable name (e.g. `header-bg-hover-color`) which is unintuitive.
* Only for some colours there is an explanatory text to make clear what this color defines exactly.
### Expected
Changing the color theme should be rather simple. Therefor I suggest the following changes:
* Change the order of the colours so that things that belong together are shown together.
* Offer a natural language name for every colour instead of the variable name.
* Provide more explanatory texts if necessary.
Further we could think about providing predefined color themes (like "OpenProject Light"). This has two advantages in my eyes:
* The admin sees easily (with one click) what is meant by changing the colours. Thus this could promote the design feature.
* The admin could use the predefined themes as an starting point for his/her own design. Thus it will be easier because less colours need to be changed.
When an admin wants to change the color scheme of OpenProject, there are several difficulties to face:
* The are a lot of colours to set, which are not in a logical order
* The name of the colors is the variable name (e.g. `header-bg-hover-color`) which is unintuitive.
* Only for some colours there is an explanatory text to make clear what this color defines exactly.
### Expected
Changing the color theme should be rather simple. Therefor I suggest the following changes:
* Change the order of the colours so that things that belong together are shown together.
* Offer a natural language name for every colour instead of the variable name.
* Provide more explanatory texts if necessary.
Further we could think about providing predefined color themes (like "OpenProject Light"). This has two advantages in my eyes:
* The admin sees easily (with one click) what is meant by changing the colours. Thus this could promote the design feature.
* The admin could use the predefined themes as an starting point for his/her own design. Thus it will be easier because less colours need to be changed.