a firefox browser extension that show the root CSS element on every page, and allow us to modify those exposed variables.
This experiment tries to look at user customisation, and how can we redesign websites that we didn't made? On myspace or tumblr, people made custom themes for their webpage, and before that on neocities. Nowadays social websites like instagram or twitter are smooth and their design is imposed and alienating.
We made a firefox browser extension that show the root CSS element on every page, and allow us to modify those exposed variables. Those can be the background colors, the font-size, or other more surprising ones. What hides in the roots of a website?
Our modification are uploaded to a server, and every user of the shovel extension is connected to the same server. So if someone change a root variables on a website through the extension it does it for every users of the extension.