Custom Calendar Background

A Chrome extension for styling Google calendar.

This is the code behind the chrome extension Custom Calendar Background. If you haven't yet, install it using by clicking that link!

The extension includes a few features:

• Set a background, either a single color, a single image, or twelve images that change each month.
• Select between a light and dark overlap to improve text visibility.

Note: Google Calendar have since added light & dark modes.
This extension will eventually read from that setting, but in the meantime, please keep both aligned.
Some things may look weird if the extension is in light mode and google calendar is in dark mode, or vice-versa.

Recent changes:

v2.0.14 Collection of many small fixes for light & dark view:

• Fixed chip colors in dark mode.
• Year view backgound made transparent
• Popup button text (e.g. appearance / email guests) more visible
• Background color gradient issue fixed.

v2.0.7

• 2.0.5, 2.0.6 and 2.0.7 were all small quick style fixes after Google updated their design
• 5 fixed chip titles for past events, 6 fixed lines in the week/day view, and 7 fixed the time column.

v2.0.3

• Fixed style issues after the code for month view changed.
• Added extra fixes for top bar title & button visibility, and today indicator in the month box on the left.

v2.0.1

• Added themes! You can purchase from curated sets of 12 images if you like, or keep using the manual ones.
• Includes a new website https://calendar.useit.today - see there for links like themes and privacy/legal.
• Fixed an issue where users with sync turned off would not have accessible email addresses (currently rolling out).

v1.0.12

• Small fix to the month gridlines.
• Help page added! See here.

v1.0.9

• Hopefully fix bad encoding on options page, no longer will show random characters.
• A few more style fixes across light/dark modes.

v1.0.6

• Numerous style fixes across light and dark modes across the app.
• Settings page links to this page for information.

v1.0

• Ability to use color rather than images
• Support to change between light & dark overlays.

v0.3

• Monthly images supported
• Fixes to improve the style of more sections

v0.2

• A settings page to support customizing the image

v0.1

• Initial extension, just a single image

Contact

If you have any issues with the extension, please post them here on github (preferred) or on the chrome extension's support page.

Alternatively, if you'd like to help me keep this extension running, open-source and free, contributions are welcome via stripe.