Changing kibana colors

[Kikketer (Chris Weed)]

Theming Kibana with a Plugin

So I attempted to explore the path of theming Kibana with a plugin and the results were a bit sad LESS is a great language for pre-processors of CSS and I actually prefer it compared to SCSS. But unfortunately what makes it great doesn't allow us to override variables with a plugin. Right now the colors of Kibana are determined mostly by a file called colors.less (surprise). LESS then uses the variables set there to compile the next files: colors.less something-else.less etc... …

I've forked Kibana to style it, changing the colors.less. You can try a hack as well as I did with the link above. It's not the "best" or "easiest" way but it does avoid the need for merge and forking Kibana.