What is the rational behind the chosen /sites styling info?

Question

I was wondering why the chosen styling data is provided though the API. It makes sense to provide it, but I feel like we are only getting part of the information.

"styling": {
    "link_color": {
      "description": "color of links, as a CSS style color value",
      "values": "string",
      "optional": false
    },
    "tag_foreground_color": {
      "description": "foreground color of tags, as a CSS style color value",
      "values": "string",
      "optional": false
    },
    "tag_background_color": {
      "description": "background/fill color of tags, as a CSS style color value",
      "values": "string",
      "optional": false
    }
}

It seems to me that we should be provided with stuff like background color, accepted answer color, no answer color, border styles, etc. Or, why provide any style information at all?

Answer 1

This feature came about after some internal discussion.

The gist of it was, what's the bare minimum you need to make a question link look like it belongs to a given site? link_color, tag_foreground_color, and tag_background_color are what came out of that discussion.

The reason for restricting to just that subset of a site is that, as George Edison pointed out, we don't want people copying the look and feel of a site wholesale.