SharePoint 2013 - Composed looks and Themes

SharePoint 2013 has Introduced somthing called "Composed looks". These are essentially Themes that we use to see in old sharePoint versions. These are essentially List Items that tells you about Themes and its components. On th eother hand there is something called "Themes" aviable as well. In Sp2013 this is a simple Font Schema of the theme which is refered in Composed looks.


Themes - This library contain colors/fonts/palettes file from themes that exist in 15 hive at the below path -

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\THEMES

These are refrenced in the Composed Look list.

Composed Look -

This list records the following data for a Theme

Name – Name of the Composed Look

Master Page – Default Master page of Theme.

Theme URL – Theme file that defines colors you want to apply to different CSS. ( From Themes Folder)

Image URL – URL to Background image in the CSS.

Font Scheme URL – Theme File which defines the fonts that can be applied to CSS

Display Order – Order the Composed looks entries.

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