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Clean custom NT8 skin (Solarized colors scheme)

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BastienFaure
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Hi all !

Just wanted to share with you my work in progress about my NT8/chart skin.

Has anyone built a custom skin for NT8 ? Do you have any issues changing some colors ?

I'm pretty happy with the results but somehow I can't find where some colors defined in skin xaml files are visible in UI and also how to find some UI colors inside these files. But anyway I almost changed pretty much anything I wanted to, just need to spend more time editing skin files to perfect them.

Having a nice clean readable chart is VERY important to me as we look at it countless hours.
We don't need flashing casino colors to distract us, aggressive colors to hurt our eyes or stress us ...

To solve these issues I'm working with Solarized color scheme :

https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

As a computer engineer I often use it in my text editors to write code, and I think it can be pretty useful in trading softwares. It was designed with precise colors, to be very readable, good contrast, light/dark theme ...

Some screenshots below, for a better view click on them and them click on expand button






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 aloke 
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Hi,
How to get those colours and also would like to know how can I create gradients.
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Aloke

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BastienFaure
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I got those colors from Solarized color palette.
[IMG]https://miro.medium.com/max/832/1*KMZzUdcCaNFZleIqg6CajA.png[/IMG]

To use them you can :
  • A : type them in directly in hex format
  • B : add them at the end of your 'BluePrint.xaml' skin file to access them easily in the color picker


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 aloke 
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Thanks a lot.Really appreciate.
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Aloke

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 petrmac 
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Hi, this looks nice, do you happen to have the xaml file? maybe we can put to github or someplace...

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BastienFaure
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You can find the skins attached below, but I'm not working on them anymore.

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 Mindset 
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Hi

Just to say these skins no longer import into the new version of NT8 - you can manually put them in the templates folder however

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@BastienFaure - Thank you for the different skins. I can finally see the "hardcoded" font colors with no help from NT8 support team.

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You can find the skins attached below, but I'm not working on them anymore.


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mluka
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@BastienFaure: Hi Bastien. Great work!

I'm trying to change the background of the PnL boxes in Chart Trader but have not had any luck so far.

Do you have any idea as to what parameters I should change (and in what .xaml file they're located)?

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BastienFaure
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Hey mluka, I also didn't find how to change the background of PnL box. I made another clean grey skin based on google material colors, you can download it here: https://priceactiontoolbar.com/download-grey-skin.html

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