Customizing the Roon theme

A_dN · February 13, 2021, 12:46pm

Made a start with identifying the colours codes that but then it was 05:30

Nyquist · February 13, 2021, 12:54pm

Very nice, I think it’s not old fashioned enough to be modern again. It will take some years before it will be introduced this as “freshly new modern design” again.

danny2 · February 13, 2021, 1:00pm

Interesting.
Changed my Dark Theme, and Roon presents three options in the Settings: Dark, Light, Unknown.
Changed my Light/Creamsicle theme, added it to Roon and Roon presented: Dark, Light, Light, Unknown.
Deleted the two original themes (saved them elsewhere, in Roon iself I have only left the two modded ones) and it presents in Roon as: Light, Dark.

Damian_Kurgan · February 13, 2021, 1:16pm

@danny2 there is a second file called ‘name’ and in the settings folder is placed your current theme name.

So, guys, we are able to play with shapes, shadows and individual colours but no sizes. They are overwriting by the program. Below can see NON-ARTISTIC examples: Dedicated elements colours, shapes for pictures.

aKnyght · February 13, 2021, 1:28pm

ok – i think i am at a good (enough) place at this point. versus my earlier mods, changed all background and overlay colors to greyscale; softened up the main background by lightening it to 12% grey; and changed all the fonts. could go on with more tinkering but this should do me fine.

A_dN · February 13, 2021, 1:29pm

To add to this: Roon only accepts the names “Light” and “Dark” (note the capitals!) in the name-file. Other names will reflect as “Unknown”. The order in which they appear seems to always be the alphabetical order of the theme-name-folders in the Themes dir.

A_dN · February 13, 2021, 1:37pm

And what OpenType-font did you use here?

aKnyght · February 13, 2021, 1:39pm

jura – a google font. however, its a .ttf so i simply changed the extension to .otf which worked, go figure.

btw: you also need to change the 3 lato and the 3 notoSans .ttl fonts

Craig_Watkins · February 13, 2021, 1:53pm

Thanks! Much better.

Bela_Nagy · February 13, 2021, 2:11pm

It’s funny, because in the …Local\Roon\Settings folder the “theme” file contains correctly the actually selected theme name (folder name in Application\Themes\ directory), but only the drop-down menu shows “Unknown”.

Thg6276 · February 13, 2021, 3:54pm

Bonjour,

Do you know which code must be changed for “Now Playing” ?

Damian_Kurgan · February 13, 2021, 4:01pm

Problem is all screen are related to same pallet. Would you like to change something specific?

Thg6276 · February 13, 2021, 4:05pm

OK. I would like to change only the grey color of now playing song

Charles_Peterson · February 13, 2021, 5:03pm

Anyone know which ‘atom’ corresponds to the black boxes on the Home Page (stats, New Release for you, etc)? Tried a few that seemed obvious but gave up.

Damian_Kurgan · February 13, 2021, 5:17pm

Obviously it is “blue background”. Why you asking…

atom-bluebg
atom-bluebg-hover

but not sure would you like to change…

Alex_Manders · February 13, 2021, 4:55pm

I love
Roon 1.8 and I hate the colour purple. please help!

Nepherte · February 13, 2021, 4:57pm

How is this related to metadata?

Charles_Peterson · February 13, 2021, 5:35pm

Thanks Damian. Looks better to me!

Damian_Kurgan · February 13, 2021, 5:37pm

Just pick up anything from over 10 options you want!

danny2 · February 13, 2021, 5:50pm

Charles, how do you get that heading font - the one your name is written in?