User blog comment:The Woolly Howl/Theme Update/@comment-3299695-20180520085241/@comment-3299695-20180520143837

I'm happy for such an open reception :)

You absolutely don't need to resign neither from the red nor the Berk background. But I'm afraid the two plus the parchment can't coexist. If you make the red a leading color of modules, buttons, etc. then it won't collide with Berk background that badly. Or, you could make the leading background in a parchment theme, but then you would need to resign from Berk. Either way, I would not mess up with the article background at all. It's too risky.

Your ideas for the themes are great, but I'm afraid you need to choose between the parchment and Berk. I remember that long ago I wanted to try out a parchment theme on our wiki, too, but for some reason I've never completed the idea. But that might be interesting. Berk, on the other hand, is very representative.

I'll leave it up to you, but again, I strongly suggest not to put together Berk and parchment themes.

One more thing: how do you feel about the red scales pattern as a background for some of the templates? Because, again, I feel that placing any sort of image on the scale background (like the franchise logos, or fire, or the dragons on the main page headers) doesn't look well either. Just the text, fine, but without additional images. I would recomment any sort of patterns for smaller (narrower) elements with a simple content and plain colors for bigger boxes holding more of the content.