How do I set this up exactly?

[h4rldev]

The installation guide is quite unhelpful

Example:
What color goes where and whatnot

[nullishamy]

1. download your variant of choice from here
2. copy it to your config directory, normally ~/.config/polybar
3. add the following to your config.ini polybar config:

[global/wm]
include-file = $HOME/.config/polybar/colors.ini

4. set your colours using the preset, something like:

[bar/top]
background=${colors.base}
border-color=${colors.crust}
border-size=4pt
font-0=Iosevka:size=13;2
foreground=${colors.surface0}

[justTOBBI]

Hey, there are plenty of examples of polybars on github if you just search up dotfiles.
I can guide you to https://github.com/justtobbi/dotfiles/tree/main :)

[kawaleo]

This is extremely late but colors like base, mantle, and crust are designed to be used as background colors. Obviously text and subtext are for text, and the generic colors such as blue and yellow are really up to you where you use them