Date: 11/9/2008

Theme Colour Guidelines

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People often ask me about the method of changing colours in themes. Here I'm describing the code word meanings and colour coding system used in theme descriptor file (xml) of themes. So lets start....
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I hav done some experiment with the code words of colours in themes and found the meanings of several code. These are the meanings that may help u in personalizing your themes.
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header_font_color= Colour of the menu name, folder name, file name etc font that shows just at the area where operator logo appears in standby screen.
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status_area_font_color= Colour of the fonts in status area. It is mainly applicable for the time colour (when not in standby mood).
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softkey_font_color= Left and Right softkey command text colour when the phone is not in standby screen. It also includes softkey colour of the music player.
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calender_highlight_color= Colour of the highlighted box in calender, Marked text area colour.
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idle_status_area_font_color= Font colour of the Operator logo, profile name and time in standby screen.
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idle_softkey_area_font_color= Font colour of the left and right softkey command in standby screen.
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active_idle_active_font_color= Font colour of items when personalizing ACTIVE STANDBY mood.
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active_idle_content_background_color= Box colours of items when personalizing ACTIVE STANDBY mood.
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reorder_highlight_font_color= Colour of the highlighted font when in moving content mood inside organize shortcut bar option.
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menu_font_color= Colour of all fonts inside menu's, calender note text and Artist + Album font colour in music player.
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menu_highlight_font_color= Font colour of a highlighted item in menu and font colour of song titles in music player.
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forms_selected_font_color= Colour of text when in writting SMS (in create message mood). And text colour of all forms in menu when in highlighted mood (i.e. Profile or Tone setting personalizing mood).
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forms_unselected_font_color= Colour of SMS when in not writing mood (in create message mood). And text colour of all forms in menu when in un-highlighted mood (i.e. Profile or Tone setting personalizing mood).
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NOTE: There are some more code words used in xml files, but I've not found the meanings of them yet. I will submit them as soon as I find out the meanings.
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Colour Code Guidelines:
In the xml file of a theme, the colour is defined like just this ''0x000000''.
But the main colour code is the six digits written after the 0x. These six digits are divided into 3 parts. First two digit is for RED, 2nd two digit is for GREEN and last two digit is for BLUE. The code shows various colours by mixing up this three colours in different amounts and the amount of the colour is defined as 0-9 and A,B,C,D,E and F. In this method, the F is the highest and 0 is the lowest.
For example, FF0000 means red and 00FF00 means green colour. If u want more deeper colour, then reduce the colour value. Like 005000 is deep green (middle 2digit is for green). Just like this method, the 6 alphabets (A,B,C,D,E and F) are used in place of the numbers.
The coding system described above is also used in many languages like HTML, WML etc. To know about more colours, just experiment urself with various codes and soon u will be very familiar with colour code system.
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NOTE: The code characters are not case sensitive. For example, FF00FF and ff00ff are the same colours.
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Some examples of colour codes:
0000FF= Deep Blue
FF0000= Red
FFFF00= Deep Yellow
00FF00= lightened Green
00FFFF= Sky Blue
FF00FF= Rosy
000000= Black
FFFFFF= White
005000= Deep Green
6464FF= Lightened Blue
DC3C00= Orange
960000= Deep Red
8C8C8C= Ash
6E2800= Brown
E8E891= Lightened Yellow
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Sanou Singha 2008

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