How do I change the color scheme or page background?

A color scheme is a set of five colors that work together. Picking one recolors your shapes, text and backgrounds to match, so a flyer can go from autumn orange to blue in one click.

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Recolor the publication with a scheme

1. On the Page Design tab, hover over the swatches in the Color scheme group to see their names: Cobalt, Terracotta, Forest, Plum, Slate and Sunset.
2. Click one. Every page changes at once.

What changes and what doesn’t:

• Fills, outlines, gradients, text colors and page backgrounds take the scheme’s colors. Each color is matched by its role: dark colors take the scheme’s dark, pale ones its light, and so on.
• Black, white and grays stay as they are. Photos are never changed.
• Korva checks every piece of text against what’s behind it, so text stays readable.
• New shapes, text and tables you add afterwards take the scheme’s colors too.

Don’t like it? Press ⌘ZCtrl+Z to go back.

Make your own color scheme

1. Click + at the end of the swatches.
2. Type a Name for the scheme.
3. Click each color well to choose the Main, Accent 1, Accent 2, Hyperlink and Followed (visited link) colors. The strip at the bottom previews them.
4. Click Apply.

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Your scheme is applied and saved on this computer. It appears as a new swatch in the Color scheme group, ready for other publications, and under Saved schemes next time you open this dialog.

Set the page background

A plain color for this page: click Page Color and pick a color. It changes the page you’re on.

A tint or gradient:

1. Click Page Design›, then Background.
2. Click one of the Solid tints or Gradients. The page shows it straight away.
3. Tick Apply to all pages to use it on every page.
4. Click Done. Cancel puts the page back as it was.

To remove a background, click No background.

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For your own gradient colors, click an empty part of the page so nothing is selected. Under Background in the Format pane, set Fill effect to Gradient, then choose the From and To colors and the Direction.

If it still doesn’t work