The Signal Dark template — what is it, and how was it made?

The colour tokens make customization trivial. Change six CSS variables and the entire theme shifts. I tested it -- swapped violet for emerald, cyan for amber. Took about two minutes. The whole template adapted instantly.

That's the advantage of a properly tokenized design system. The Claude Code workflow makes it even easier -- describe the palette you want and it updates the variables for you. One conversation.

One conversation to redesign the entire colour scheme. That's extraordinary when you think about what template customization used to involve. Hours of hunting through CSS files, finding hardcoded values, missing one and having an inconsistent button.

The consistency is what separates professional work from amateur work. When every element derives its colours from the same set of tokens, visual consistency is automatic. The template enforces good practice through its architecture.

Architecture. Everyone keeps using that word. It's a website template, not a building. But I'll admit -- the structure makes it easier to work with than most templates I've tried. And I've tried many.

It IS architecture, Zed. Software architecture. The decisions about where to place module positions, how to structure the CSS cascade, which Joomla APIs to use -- those are architectural decisions that affect everything built on top of them.