Background color cannot be changed about leonardo HOT 8 OPEN

It's no problem @markjharvey! These are good points. There is some difficulty using the tool and it could be improved to help these types of problems.

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1. The "background color" picker selects which color scale to use for a background. Backgrounds are dynamic, just as with everything else, so you can adjust lightness (this helps for creating light and dark mode themes)

2. Choosing different scales will change the background color appearance. Lightness of the background is independent and determined via the "lightness" slider.

3. To make the background black, slide the "lightness" to zero

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@markjharvey a few things could be happening here:

1. When the background lightness is set to 100% in the settings menu, regardless of which color scale is selected, the color will always be white (#ffffff). Changing the background lightness to less than 100% will show more color when another scale is selected.
2. Clicking on the square labeled "background color" in the main area of the page will copy the value: those are output colors generated based on the settings you have set.

Some of these details are demonstrated in this introductory video for creating themes: https://youtu.be/d-i18M384Bo

Hope this helps

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@NateBaldwinDesign So it appears this "Theme Settings" dropdown is actually the "Background color settings"? It's still not clear what the "Background color" dropdown selection does.

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@NateBaldwinDesign Thank you so much for that explanation. I can see now I just did not understand how to use this. My fault and thanks again for clarifying.

Perhaps I should create an issue for a feature request, a plain "White" and "Black" option in that dropdown. Maybe it disables the other sliders? I'm not sure exactly and don't want to solution. Just a way to explicitly say "Make the background white/black"

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@NateBaldwinDesign I just tested this in a few browsers as I had been experiencing the same issue, and the bg theme color does not work in Firefox. I tested Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox (only the last one produces this issue) on Win 11.

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@NateBaldwinDesign I just tested this in a few browsers as I had been experiencing the same issue, and the bg theme color does not work in Firefox. I tested Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox (only the last one produces this issue) on Win 11.

Did you try adjusting the lightness slider? No matter which theme you have selected, if the lightness slider is 0% or 100%, it will be black or white. To get the color selected in the theme, you have to adjust the lightness to somewhere between 0 and 100.

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Did you try adjusting the lightness slider? No matter which theme you have selected, if the lightness slider is 0% or 100%, it will be black or white. To get the color selected in the theme, you have to adjust the lightness to somewhere between 0 and 100.

Yes, apologies I should have noted this earlier. That said, Firefox does seem to now be responding to the bg color change (with lightness adjustments) when I checked again today. 👍

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