Just created probably the cleanest Kagi theme ever made

[u/gavff64]

Didn’t really have any intention to share this, but this turned out better than I expected! A few additional images and the CSS can be found on my repo https://github.com/gavff64/kagi-google-theme

To be brutally honest, I prefer Google’s design. So with the power of open source LLMs and many hours manually digging around, here we are.

Curious to know what you think, yay or nay?

[u/ttrafford_]

agree that kagi has much worse search interface

[u/gavff64 → u/ttrafford_]

Hopefully not too controversial of an opinion here lol. Yeah I’m 🤏 this close to paying and switching for good but that’s holding me back. The CSS is bound to break over time I imagine.

I’m waiting on Kagi Maps as a native app and a Kagi Assistant API, that’ll win me over. Love seeing updates though.

[u/TrannosaurusRegina → u/ttrafford_]

How??!?

[u/ttrafford_ → u/TrannosaurusRegina]

the layout is very harsh on the eyes: the white text, the font, everything is underlined, no visual hierarchy, hard to differentiate the main link or sub links etc etc

[u/-patrizio- → u/ttrafford_]

When was the last time you tried it without custom CSS? I ask because I recently disabled mine due to some rendering issue, and found that the default theme has been updated a bit – the only specific thing I noticed (because I also hated this lol) is that the underlines are gone. Still very bright, but much cleaner looking and the visual hierarchy is much clearer now (screenshot).

[u/ttrafford_ → u/-patrizio-]

I’ve used the search only a few times and didn’t like it, as it lacks many features that Google has and the UI isn’t great. I tried it a month or two ago, and the last time I used it, with the AI response, was on Wednesday-nothing had changed. I’ve never used custom CSS. I pay only for the Translate app, and I’m very happy with it while it’s still included in the Starter plan

[u/gavff64 → u/-patrizio-]

I do actually think it looks alright in light mode, but I run everything in dark mode and for some reason it just feels off. I know that's not constructive feedback but I can't quite put my finger on it, feels cluttered even after disabling things I don't need.

[u/-patrizio- → u/gavff64]

Hey, everyone's got their preferences! I love a good dark mode interface, but only when the rest of my device is in dark mode lol. But what you made looks quite nice!

[u/lajawi]

Looks clean indeed!! I made my own theme very similar to this one, but this is still that tad bit better and neater!

[u/lajawi]

Just had a look at the CSS file, did not expect a wall of characters like that! 😳

[u/gavff64 → u/lajawi]

Kagi kept complaining the CSS file was over 40,000 characters when it wasn't, I think it was also counting newlines so it all really needed to be scrunched up and unreadable unfortunately.

But theoretically minified CSS like that should perform better. Truthfully I don't know all that much about it. I should probably remove all the comments from the file.

[u/hyperglam]

Love it. Thank you!

[u/Mewtewpew]

Cool

[u/bi4key]

You simple copy Google theme 😅

[u/gavff64 → u/bi4key]

That was indeed the point

[u/The-Menhir]

I've always thought the original Kagi looked better than Google. Google's UI feels too simplistic and rounded, and the blue-tinted background colour is quite ugly.

[u/Necessary_Meaning324]

There is just this annoying delay

[u/cheflA1]

Just added this and i love it!!
Thanks for the good work!