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Sorry for the simply question,

I've seen in several posts that people have made a new theme and changed say the background of the homepage and would like to know where these variables are located. I know you have to make a new .less file however i'm unsure of how to correctly call variables to change aspects of my page.

How do you know the name of the variables, for example, the'background-color'? Where are the source files located?

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  • I found some more paths where less variables are stored, please check edit
    – Vivek Kumar
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 17:14

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The exact path would depend on whether you've installed magento using composer or web setup.

If you've used web setup, the files will be located here -

vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma/web/css/source

and for composer installation they will be here - 

app/design/frontend/Magento/luma/web/css/source

most of the variable of value will be located in (I think you can extrapolate relative paths for following for composer installation)

vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma/web/css/source/_variables.less

and 

vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma/web/css/source/_theme.less

If you are extending Magento Blank theme instead of luma, you might wanna look here instead

vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank/web/css/source/

EDIT :

After some further digging more variables can be found here -

vendor/magento/magento2-base/lib/web/css/source/lib/variables/

and for composer installation, 

lib/web/css/source/lib/variables/
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  • I can change the background colour but not another variable i have changed in vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma/web/css/source. See my edit
    – Greg
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 16:16
  • Please avoid asking multiple issues in same question. This is a different issue, please post a separate question for it.
    – Vivek Kumar
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 16:21
  • Its the same vein, just curious to know if i'm using the variable is all :)
    – Greg
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 16:26
  • Np, let me look into it, also please accept the answer as it solved your original issue.
    – Vivek Kumar
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 16:27
  • Cheers mate - magento.stackexchange.com/questions/239397/…
    – Greg
    Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 16:31

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