I wasn’t intending on building an admin color scheme plugin, much less submitting one to the WordPress repository. But, when I found existing pink admin color schemes lacking in both good design principles (not enough contrast/hard to read) and in thoroughness (many places where the default WordPress colors still showed) I realized something had to be done.

So, I present to you Super Thorough Admin Color Scheme, based off the color scheme on my own website (which is gorgeous, obviously). I went through the WP Admin with a fine toothed comb, checking as many buttons, links, active/focus states, borders, backgrounds, and box-shadows as I could find, and trying to account for every element one would normally encounter in the admin, while linking the Sass variables together in such a way that it would be easy to modify for my other clients… or by other front-end developers.

Lesson learned? There’s a whole lot of redundancy in the WP Admin, and a whole lot of obscure/specific classes on the tiniest elements declaring similar colors and values. Hopefully for those of you that want to design your own (and know your way around Sass), I’ve done some of the hard work for you.

Anyway, I’m off to install the official version of the plugin on my sites now to help improve my sad “Less Than 10 Active Installs” count 😉