Colinear Theme blockquote border color
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</img>Hello everyone, I’m trying the Colinear theme in my blog, and I noticed an incongruity in the color management probably caused by a defect.
The border of the quotes does not match the color of the theme, but maintains the default color.
Can you check and possibly correct this incongruity?
Thank you.
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Hi there, I looked at the code and this is the way the theme was designed. Give that Colinear has been out for quite a while, this is not something we would change since it could cause others using the theme to complain about the color change on the blockquotes left borderline.
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Hello, thanks for the reply. Should not the border-color follow the links one? Perhaps it was an oversight. As you can see from the photos, I think this is the most uniform and aesthetic solution.
This way, there is a different shade of blue than the style of the site, or there is a blue bar on a green or red site. It visibly strikes, do not you think?
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I say so because in the default configuration the color of the bar is equal to the links one. So I think that by changing the color of the links, the color of the bar should also be uniform.
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There is no connection between the colour of the links and the colour of the blockquote border, no. It’s just a coincidence that they happen to be the same colour in the default colour scheme.
The blockquote colour is set completely separately from the link colour, and while the link colour is designed to change when you change the colour scheme of the site, the blockquote colour is not designed that way – the blockquote colour has a static value, regardless of the over all colour scheme of the site.
This way, there is a different shade of blue than the style of the site, or there is a blue bar on a green or red site. It visibly strikes, do not you think?
It looks like a different shade, but only because you are viewing it against a different background each time. The shade of the blockquote border is set in the code as #0074d9, and it stays at that value no matter what colour you apply to the site background.
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Hello, thanks for the reply. I’m not a designer, so I do not want to insist. But in the self-hosted sites version there is no possibility to change the link color: only “Header Text Color” and “Background Color”.
The possibility to change the color of the link is offered only on WordPress.com through the “Palettes” option, with additional lines of code. The fact that “There is no connection between the colour of the links and the colour of the blockquote border” is a choice of WordPress.com, not the original code.
In my opinion, as you can clearly see in this photo, the color of the bar is visibly too dark to be a conscious choice of design.
Probably I am wrong and you are right, but if a line of code is missing, it may be that it is a deliberate choice or an oversight. This can also happen. From the browser we understand which of the two alternatives is the correct one.
It makes no sense for me to insist, but I do not mark this request as resolved.
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I state that I will probably choose the blue version, because it is the one that maintains a more vintage look, I would like to add only this.
The author of the theme could not choose the color for the bar, leaving it black, the same as the text (#222), he could give the possibility to change it by associating it with “Header Text Color”, or he could choose another random color. Instead he chose a specific color, the same color of the links: #0074d9.
So I think that if you change that value, you should change it in all the places where it is used, for a question of uniformity. Perhaps, for the designer of this theme the connection between these two elements exists.
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Thanks for the design feedback. Personally I don’t disagree with you; using similar colors might be a nice effect. But it would be different from the original design. Changing it now would affect live sites, so we won’t be changing the code. If we provide an update to this theme in the form of a new theme (like we did with this one for Coraline) we’ll be sure to pass these suggestions along.
In the meantime, we can help you change the CSS if you’d like.
But in the self-hosted sites version there is no possibility to change the link color: only “Header Text Color” and “Background Color”.
That is true. The color scheme tool is unique to WordPress.com right now, but if you’d like, you can use it to generate some CSS then apply that to a self-hosted site.
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I do not understand @supernovia: the original design does not provide to change the color of the links, does not even provide to change the color of the page, only the color of the background. The original design includes a single color palette, blue: this color is used as the only distinctive element of the theme.
Now, if you decide to offer further customization, you should respect the original setting. If you choose to use green, you replace the blue color with green in all places, without arbitrarily excluding some elements. This is the real arbitrary alteration of the original project: to choose to modify some elements to the detriment of others.
I use XAMPP to try offline sites and study a few lines of code, so I chose WordPress.com.
This discussion is becoming quirky, and I fear it is not appropriate. I thought the error was evident, as seen in the last image in a macroscopic way: that shade of blue is visibly inappropriate for that palette of colors. Personally, I could not tolerate such a scheme.
However, if you believe this is the correct solution, I accept your decision.
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@sottoquercia WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different customization tools, hence the difference you see.
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Thank you, @supernovia. In order not to change the original design, you change a design with a single color in the palette (blue) in a design with a palette of two colors (green and blue or red and blue or purple and blue). I thought that the characterizing element was the unique color, instead you explain to me that it is the blue bar in the quotes. I understand, logical. However, I solved the problem by not using the blockquote and pre tags anymore.
En passant, I allow myself to report this other anomaly: the settings that I establish for the title (thin in my case) are not respected in the pages of the posts.
But surely you will tell me that this is also a characteristic of the original design.
Thank you for your time. Perhaps one day I will buy the Premium plan, if the blog goes well.
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Hi @sottoquercia!
Thank you for reporting the issue with the site title’s weight.
This should now be displaying consistently on your site.
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