Steam Friends / Chat Skin

Check out https://steamchatskinning.tk to see the skin in action. Also provides a visual way to customise the appearance.

Installation

Prerequisite

Steam Friends Patcher: https://github.com/PhantomGamers/SteamFriendsPatcher/releases

This is required to apply the theme to the Steam Friends UI. Setting the patcher to run in the background will automatically patch the UI whenever Valve releases a new update for the Friends UI.

Theme Installation

Manual

• Copy friends.custom.css to Steam/clientui and read it
• Copy ofriends.custom.css to Steam/clientui and read it

Automatic

If on Windows running the installer script will automatically download and install the theme. Installer: https://github.com/LaserFlash/steam-chat-skin-installer/releases

Preview

Customisation

friends.custom.css can be customised to apply different styles to the theme. This customisation is performed in the that file

Theme Options:

Theme Colour:

• Discord Theme
• Dark Theme
• Light Theme

Status Styles:

• Discord status or dot status
• Border status (outline around the avatar)

Avatar Styles:

• Round Avatar
• Square Avatar
• Squircle Avatar

Visual Effects:

• Glow Effects
• Shadows
• Blur

Font Customisation

You can change the font used, either read the comment block in friends.custom.css or add something like the following:

* {
  font-family: <Replace me with your font> !important;
}

Just make sure you either use a web safe font or one that is installed on your system

• https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp
• https://fonts.google.com/?selection.family=Big+Shoulders+Text (also a good resource, use the @IMPORT option)

Contributing

Contributions of any sort are always welcome.

If you have problems or suggestions I would recommend you create an Issue with a clear explanation and ideally a relevant screenshot.

Code

Code contributions are also welcome (less work for me). Just put in a Merge Request. I'm slowly working on creating a solid project structure, but for now just be sensible with the code changes.

Credits

• PhantomGamers https://github.com/PhantomGamers for their work on the patcher.
• Originally a fork of https://github.com/AikoMidori/steam-friends-skin