discourse/app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/variables.scss

// --------------------------------------------------
// Variables used throughout the theme
// --------------------------------------------------

// Layout dimensions
// --------------------------------------------------

$small-width: 800px !default;
$medium-width: 995px !default;
$large-width: 1110px !default;

$input-padding: 4px 10px;
$topic-body-width: 690px;
$topic-body-width-padding: 11px;
$topic-avatar-width: 45px;

// Brand color variables
// --------------------------------------------------

$google: #ffffff !default;
$instagram: #e1306c !default;
$facebook: #4267b2 !default;
$cas: #70ba61 !default;
$twitter: #1da1f2 !default;
$github: #100e0f !default;

// Badge color variables
// --------------------------------------------------

$gold: rgb(231, 195, 0) !default;
$silver: #c0c0c0 !default;
$bronze: #cd7f32 !default;

// Fonts
// --------------------------------------------------

$base-font-size-smaller: 14px !default;
$base-font-size: 15px !default;
$base-font-size-larger: 17px !default;
$base-font-size-largest: 19px !default;
$base-font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !default;

// Font-size defintions, multiplier ^ (step / interval)
$font-up-6: 2.296em;
$font-up-5: 2em;
$font-up-4: 1.7511em;
$font-up-3: 1.5157em;
$font-up-2: 1.3195em;
$font-up-1: 1.1487em; // 2^(1/5)
$font-0: 1em;
$font-down-1: 0.8706em; // 2^(-1/5)
$font-down-2: 0.7579em; // Smallest size we use based on the 1em base
$font-down-3: 0.6599em;
$font-down-4: 0.5745em;
$font-down-5: 0.5em;
$font-down-6: 0.4355em;

// inputs/textareas in iOS need to be at least 16px to avoid triggering zoom on focus
// with base at 15px, the below gives 16.05px
$font-size-ios-input: 1.07em;

// Common line-heights
$line-height-small: 1;
$line-height-medium: 1.2; // Headings or large text
$line-height-large: 1.4; // Normal or small text

// These files don't actually exist. They're injected by Stylesheet::Compiler.
// --------------------------------------------------

@import "theme_colors";
@import "plugins_variables";
@import "common/foundation/math";

// Z-index
// --------------------------------------------------

$z-layers: (
  "max": 9999,
  "modal": (
    "tooltip": 1600,
    "popover": 1500,
    "dropdown": 1400,
    "content": 1300,
    "overlay": 1200
  ),
  "fullscreen": 1150,
  "mobile-composer": 1100,
  "ipad-header-nav": 1020,
  "header": 1000,
  "footer-nav": 900,
  "tooltip": 600,
  "composer": (
    "dropdown": 700,
    "tooltip": 600,
    "popover": 500,
    "content": 400
  ),
  "dropdown": 300,
  "usercard": 200,
  "timeline": 100,
  "base": 1
);

@function map-has-nested-keys($map, $keys...) {
  @each $key in $keys {
    @if not map-has-key($map, $key) {
      @return false;
    }
    $map: map-get($map, $key);
  }
  @return true;
}

@function map-deep-get($map, $keys...) {
  @each $key in $keys {
    $map: map-get($map, $key);
  }
  @return $map;
}

@function z($layers...) {
  @if not map-has-nested-keys($z-layers, $layers...) {
    @warn "No layer defined for `#{inspect($layers...)}` in $z-layers map. Check variables.scss, property omitted.";
  }
  @return map-deep-get($z-layers, $layers...);
}

// Box-shadow
// --------------------------------------------------

$box-shadow: (
  "modal": 0 8px 60px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6),
  "composer": 0 -1px 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12),
  "menu-panel": 0 12px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15),
  "card": 0 4px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15),
  "dropdown": 0 2px 3px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2),
  "header": 0 2px 4px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25),
  "footer-nav": 0 0 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25),
  "kbd": (
    0 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2),
    0 0 0 1px dark-light-choose(#fff, #000) inset
  ),
  "focus": 0 0 6px 0 $tertiary,
  "focus-danger": 0 0 6px 0 $danger
);

@function shadow($key) {
  @return map-get($box-shadow, $key);
}

// Color utilities
// --------------------------------------------------

// w3c definition of color brightness https://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast
@function dc-color-brightness($color) {
  @return (
    (red($color) * 0.299) + (green($color) * 0.587) + (blue($color) * 0.114)
  );
}

// Uses an approximation of sRGB blending, GAMMA=2 instead of GAMMA=2.2
@function srgb-scale($foreground, $background, $percent) {
  $ratio: ($percent / 100%);
  $iratio: 1 - $ratio;
  $f_r2: red($foreground) * red($foreground);
  $f_g2: green($foreground) * green($foreground);
  $f_b2: blue($foreground) * blue($foreground);
  $b_r2: red($background) * red($background);
  $b_g2: green($background) * green($background);
  $b_b2: blue($background) * blue($background);
  $r_r2: $f_r2 * $ratio + $b_r2 * $iratio;
  $r_g2: $f_g2 * $ratio + $b_g2 * $iratio;
  $r_b2: $f_b2 * $ratio + $b_b2 * $iratio;
  $r_r: sqrt($r_r2);
  $r_g: sqrt($r_g2);
  $r_b: sqrt($r_b2);
  @return rgb($r_r, $r_g, $r_b);
}

// Replaces dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 50%, -50%)
@function blend-primary-secondary($percent) {
  @return srgb-scale($primary, $secondary, $percent);
}

@function dark-light-diff(
  $adjusted-color,
  $comparison-color,
  $lightness,
  $darkness
) {
  @if dc-color-brightness($adjusted-color) <
    dc-color-brightness($comparison-color)
  {
    @return scale-color($adjusted-color, $lightness: $lightness);
  } @else {
    @return scale-color($adjusted-color, $lightness: $darkness);
  }
}
@function dark-light-choose($light-theme-result, $dark-theme-result) {
  @if dc-color-brightness($primary) < dc-color-brightness($secondary) {
    @return $light-theme-result;
  } @else {
    @return $dark-theme-result;
  }
}

// standard color transformations, use these if possible, and add any new dark-light-diffs here

//primary
$primary-very-low: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 97%, -82%);
$primary-low: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 90%, -78%);
$primary-low-mid: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 70%, -45%);
$primary-medium: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 50%, -35%);
$primary-high: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 30%, -25%);
$primary-very-high: dark-light-diff($primary, $secondary, 15%, -10%);

//header_primary
$header_primary-low: dark-light-diff(
  $header_primary,
  $header_background,
  90%,
  -78%
);
$header_primary-low-mid: dark-light-diff(
  $header_primary,
  $header_background,
  70%,
  -45%
);

$header_primary-medium: dark-light-diff(
  $header_primary,
  $header_background,
  50%,
  -35%
);
$header_primary-high: dark-light-diff(
  $header_primary,
  $header_background,
  30%,
  -25%
);
$header_primary-very-high: dark-light-diff(
  $header_primary,
  $header_background,
  15%,
  -10%
);

//secondary
$secondary-low: dark-light-diff($secondary, $primary, 70%, -70%);
$secondary-medium: dark-light-diff($secondary, $primary, 50%, -50%);
$secondary-high: dark-light-diff($secondary, $primary, 30%, -35%);
$secondary-very-high: dark-light-diff($secondary, $primary, 7%, -7%);

//tertiary
$tertiary-low: dark-light-diff($tertiary, $secondary, 85%, -65%);
$tertiary-medium: dark-light-diff($tertiary, $secondary, 50%, -45%);
$tertiary-high: dark-light-diff($tertiary, $secondary, 20%, -25%);

//quaternary
$quaternary-low: dark-light-diff($quaternary, $secondary, 70%, -70%);

//highlight
$highlight-low: dark-light-diff($highlight, $secondary, 70%, -80%);
$highlight-medium: dark-light-diff($highlight, $secondary, 50%, -55%);
$highlight-high: dark-light-diff($highlight, $secondary, -50%, -10%);

//danger
$danger-low: dark-light-diff($danger, $secondary, 85%, -64%);
$danger-medium: dark-light-diff($danger, $secondary, 30%, -35%);

//success
$success-low: dark-light-diff($success, $secondary, 80%, -60%);
$success-medium: dark-light-diff($success, $secondary, 50%, -40%);

//love
$love-low: dark-light-diff($love, $secondary, 85%, -60%);

//wiki
$wiki: green;