How to create your own theme for Google Chrome

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

If you don't like the default Chrome theme or are just tired of it, you can easily create your own theme.

To do this, you need a dedicated web-based theme builder, some inspiration, and a few minutes of free time. Although if you suffer from perfectionism, then you can spend a few hours. We warned you.:)

So, open the ThemeBeta web app. You will see tabs with tools for creating themes on the left side of the window and an area for previewing the result on the right.

This constructor allows you to create themes in a semi-automatic mode. But you can also tweak everything manually so that the result is completely according to your taste.

1. The easy way

The bottom line is this: you load any picture you like into the designer, and ThemeBeta uses it as the main background for a new theme and automatically adjusts all the design colors to it.

To add your own image, under the Basic tab, click Upload an Image and select the desired image on your computer. Then, to have the editor customize the theme colors, click Generate Colors.

If you are satisfied with the result, click Pack and Install and confirm the download and then add the theme to Chrome. The browser will immediately activate the new skin.

If, after automatic adjustment, you want to change colors or add separate backgrounds for different elements of the theme, you will need tools under the other tabs. More details about them are in the next paragraph of the article.

2. Advanced way

This method consists of manually setting the backgrounds and text colors for the new theme.

To select pictures or colors as backgrounds for different design elements, use the tools under the Images tab. It is enough to hover the cursor over any tool, and the constructor will show in the window on the right which part of the theme it changes. For example, NTP Background is used to customize the main background. And Tab Background allows you to select the background of the site header.

With backgrounds in mind, you can customize the text colors in the Colors tab. Everything works in a similar way here. There is a list of tools, hover over any of them - and in the window on the right you will see what it is responsible for.

When you're done with backgrounds and text colors, open the Pack tab and click Pack and Install to download and apply your chosen theme.

In addition, you can always choose and install one of the many ready-made themes from the ThemeBeta database or the official Google directory. If in the future you want to return to the standard design, go to the Chrome settings and, opposite the "Themes" item, click "Default scale".

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