This beautiful design by @Tim spurred some discussion about Community Theme Sharing, so I wanted to create a topic dedicated to it (and so we don’t derail his other thread). 
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Impressive design work @Tim! I’d love to see the rest of your tabs/dashboards. Would you be willing to share the css when youre done?
@josh Is there a repo for user css themes? Have you thought of bringing in a few of these “refined templates” as options all users can choose from in settings?
There’s a Community Wiki for Custom CSS Snippets and there’s the Show off Your Dashboards thread for sharing cool designs. We could certainly create a category for sharing themes if there’s enough interest.
We had a variety of discussions around sharing themes during the development of the feature. I think the first step would be to get a proper Theme Export/Import feature in place so it’s easy to share cool Themes like this.
Then the next step would be for people to share their themes! If there’s enough interest and the theme author is willing to have their theme included, I would be open to including popular community themes.
Edit: @Justin1 I moved our posts into a new thread with a more relevant title so hopefully other people can see it and join in on the discussion!
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I would love something like this. Being a product designer I’m always looking for ways to make my interface look nice but also function well from a UX perspective. The one thing I do feel is that its difficult to get a we’ll designed, highly polished UI for the interface. Things like rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients and transparency goes a long way to modernize an interface. While I am a designer and can use the tools available to customize the UI I lack the knowledge on how to override those attributes through css to make those changes. Even a small guide on how to manually change the style sheet would be helpful.
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Hi Tim. This is by far the cleanest dashboard I’ve seen. I would love to see the .css code that you used to get the indicator to the left of the rooms and the corner indicator on the room tiles. Thanks for sharing.
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Tile CSS
Corner Indicator:
background-image: url(); background-position: right top; background-repeat: no-repeat;
Border:
border-left: 5px solid #999999 !important;
Outstanding. Thank you Michael.
Gary, I just created some examples you might be interested in!
Dashboard Menus and Tile (Things) Examples - CSS
This is great information. I really appreciate you sharing this will all of us. Although, I do know some coding it is more in the VBA and Powershell world. Very helpful. Thank you.
I currently have one theme tied to two groups of touchscreens with very different layouts. I was struggling with trying to make the theme work for both and finally realized it is easier to create a second theme and manage them separately. Having an import/export theme would certainly improve this process as well as allow sharing of themes as mentioned above.
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Wow! This is a good looking theme! I wish something like this came out of the box. I particularly like the navigation styles and those split tiles!
Man that is pretty, I must have it!
Hi is there any news on this? Is there a possibility to start with a Theme like the one posted here instead of from scratch? I’m willing to pay a fee for sharptools, but not if I have to completely start from 0
maybe update from @josh ?
There’s a variety of system themes built-in:
You can start with one of those or customize your own theme:
The example shown at the very top of the thread is a highly customized theme with lots of Custom CSS.
I would generally recommend using the standard theming features where you can and only fallback to reviewing the Custom CSS Community Wiki if you have a very particular need. With the introduction of features like Super Tiles and many other improvements / enhancements, the most common use-cases are likely covered with built-in features.
As for a feature request around community theme sharing, there hasn’t been a lot of interest in it, so it’s not something we’ve prioritized. We use the official Feature Requests category in the community to help prioritize what we work on. The closest thing I can find there is Share Dashboard Theme and Skeleton which hasn’t picked up many votes.
actually the skeleton thing wouldve been very nice to start with instead of planning and panning everything from scratch…