# First Theme Build

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/first-theme-build/46354>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Elements\
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/first-theme-build/46354 "2025-02-20T00:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Beblebroks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Beblebroks](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beblebroks)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/first-theme-build/46354/1 "2025-02-20T00:46:09Z")

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Hi everyone,

got my first theme build together over a devpack. In general not to difficult, but here are a few things I took away from it:

- Would be helpful to have a “populate default” since many spacings and so on are based on default tailwind css.
- File can not just be written by hand, lot of internal props required.
- Not anymore 100% sure, but in “Spacing” or one of the others the “Remove” in the UI did not work
- In “Shadows” would be handy to see the value of the “Radius” Slider
- In “Shadows” the “inner” boolean is not available
- In “Shadows” the colors can not be remove

All mentioned above can be handled via the text file, when editing it. So it works in general.

**Question**

- Styles are “Changable” I think thats new, before you just overwrite them, and then when saving it overwrites the theme.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/8/c/8ceb86408bab54960a4eb792ce616fdd645f9d27.png)

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/first-theme-build/46354/2 "2025-02-20T08:44:57Z")

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Thanks for the feedback 🙂

The plan is to allow visual editing of the theme from directly within the Theme Studio, we just haven’t managed to get to that just yet!
