I want to try and make my own custom theme, but everywhere I look takes me back to that one series that guy did five years ago that don’t seem to be what I’m looking for. Or if it is, it is not ever explained WHY he is doing something, only that he is doing it. Which is fine to just follow along with, but I want to learn and have that why knowledge for myself so I can do it on my own.
I’ve seen online you can make custom icons with things like procreate and then put them in the theme, but any time I try and find out more I get sent back to that same series. Does anyone have any other places to look into that?
hi, welcome.
i don’t know of any tutorials or manuals, but you can download several examples of well made themes (not any of the Sweet themes, please) from the Get New stuff feature and examine how they are put together.
go to their source link (usually github) and look a the files and follow how the install.sh works, look at the files included.
there are lots of examples to pick thru… anyway, that’s what i would do.
Well you should start with the official docs, of course:
That said what I would do myself, which is a practice first approach: modifying an existing theme, get the files, unpack them and go ham, consult the aforementioned docs if you’re stuck on something.