Color settings not saving

My mistake. I have 8.x-2.x-dev installed. From my at_core.info.yml file:
"# Information added by Drupal.org packaging script on 2017-03-02
version: '8.x-2.0'
core: '8.x'
project: 'adaptivetheme'
datestamp: 1488495488"

This does not result in the ability to select colors. I have experimented locally with modifying the default colors in color.inc to use those in the "goodearth" scheme. This results in the colors changing in the appearance/color scheme settings page. But nothing "saves" or affects the colors on my site. It sounds like the color module should modify the colors in the colors.css file and base those modifications on color shifts from the base, text and link fields in color.inc. I have the color module activated on the extend screen. But googling around it appears there is some other setup needed to get this to work.

Loaded latest pixture_reloaded theme. Version from the info.yml file (version: '8.x-1.0-rc1'). The color settings on that work. As, I think intended, when you save color settings it writes a color directory out to sites/default/files and puts a modified copy of color.css in it. So that works for pixture_reloaded but does not appear to work for my at theme (version: 8.x-2.0) generated from Adaptivetheme.

Curiously, if I switch the default theme from pixture_reloaded back to my AT theme the default/files/color directory remains behind and the colors I get are from what was last generated by pixture_reloaded. If I manually delete the default/files/color directory my AT theme returns to its default colors.

Understand ... from what I've seen on Drupal dot org the support you give is unmatched.

That said, I've been hacking away ... I've got my wife's sculpture site buried inside my home site (fkelly.org) and she won't abide by the default Adaptivetheme color scheme. So, I'm kind of stuck on my local system figuring this out. I'd love to move past Bartik.

I just wiped out the first copy of the generated theme (uninstall, delete) and regenerated. When the color scheme settings come up I get the color wheel and a list of the base, text and link colors. But the list of schemes that should be above (Carbon, Good Earth etc.) doesn't show. If I type the hex values in and do save, nothing happens. If I come back to color settings the originals are in there. That said, several times I've seen /default/files/color write out a new set of colors ... but even then it does not appear to be picked up back on the site. I've even closed out Windows file manager and my PHPeditor in case they were somehow write protecting the files/color directory. No effect.

Something related to color.inc because when I save the pixture_reloaded color inc over the one from the generated adaptivetheme one I get a list of schemes on the color picker screen. Using the color.inc from the AT I get no list of schemes.

Looking at the color module it's a bit confusing to me when it's going to write to files/color and when it's going to write back over the color.css in the theme directory.

Just for kicks I "merged" the list of schemes for pixture_reloaded into that in the AT theme. Different array syntax but otherwise it should work? Noticed that pixture reloaded gives the color module a few more "hints" as to colors to use. Don't know if that would result in a substantive improvement or not.

Seems like when AT theme is set as default, color settings do not appear. Set another theme (Bartik) as default, then go into AT theme settings and color schemes magically appear. Tested this behavior locally and on my "real" site, fkelly.org and it's consistent. Not exactly sure why using a color.inc from pixture_reloaded would give me a list of schemes while the one that comes with AT theme would not. Despite differences in array notation (AT uses the new Drupal standard), both look perfect.

As reference Bartik color settings seem to work even when it set as default, both for "normal" use and as admin theme. It also offers a preview.

My admin theme is AT. At least when color settings don't work.

I usually try to set normal theme and admin theme the same.