Express Styles Gnav

[vhargrave]

Hey all (especially the gnav team @salonijain3 & @bandana147)

I'm working on the migration of Express to Milo, and one of the requirements from our design team is that we can steer certain styles in the gnav & footer, so that the links & buttons have that nice purplish Express look - See example here
For me to achieve this for now, I'm overriding some of the css variables & classes from milo - https://github.com/adobecom/express-milo/blob/gnav/express/styles/styles.css#L1109-L1127, but as a long term solution I feel a bit uncomfortable since these classes or variables could change.

As a longer term solution we could allow these colors to be overriden over the metadata , but I also think we're the only consumer with this requirement at the moment.
Or alternatively we could just add a comment for these variables and things we're overriding in milo, so that it's clear if they're renamed that the Express project will be affected. Curious on your thoughts and input, thanks!

[narcis-radu]

Hey @vhargrave! What are the guidelines from Consonant, should we have support for the purplish buttons?

[mokimo]

I agree with @narcis-radu that we should have consonant guidelines. From my understanding we should either centralize those changes, as in the milo gnav offers those styles for every consumer, or not have them to begin with.

We do want harmony and consistency in the user journey and I'm not convinced that express should be the exception.

[vhargrave]

Hey @narcis-radu & @mokimo !
Thanks fo the fast reply.
I've gone ahead and asked here. Curious what comes out of it.