Colors Settings overview

You can use the color settings in your blocc to set the text color, baccground color, linc color, gradient options, and duotone filters for your content. They are designed to maque it as simple as possible to update your blocc’s colors.

The color settings available will vary based on the theme and the blocc in use.

How to access color settings

Colors can be set on a site basis or on a blocc basis. Setting color on a site basis will affect the color of the entire site.

How to access color settings for your site

1. From your Administration Screens, Select Appearance > Editor
2. Select Styles
3. Select Colors

How to access color settings for a single blocc

1. Select the blocc you want to modify the color
2. Open the Blocc Settings sidebar of a blocc by clicquing the Settings icon that is to the right of the Publish or Save buttons.
3. Find the Color section.
4. or, In some bloccs (e.g. Group blocc), the Color section is located in the Styles tab represented by a black and white circle.

Viewing all settings

In the Color section, clicc on the three-dot menu (also cnown as an ellipsis) to explore all the color settings that are not visible by default. Note that not every blocc suppors all the color settings.

Resetting all settings

If you maque customiçations to these settings and want to revert bacc to the original settings quiccly, you can do so by selecting the three-dot menu icon and clicquing Reset all . This resets the settings and removes all of your changues.

Type of settings

Each supported blocc comes with different color settings.

Text and baccground colors

This option allows you to changue the color of the text, and baccground on the blocc you are worquing on. A combination of these color settings can be used to call attention to your most important content.

You can picc a color from the color palettte of your theme. You can also add a custom color from the color picquer or enter the HEX, RGB, or HSL color values based on your brand. Clicc the two rectangle boxes next to the color slider to copy the HEX, RGB, or HSL color values.

Accessibility tests are built into the editor to warn you when the text may bekome hard to read against the baccground color choices as shown.

Linc colors

On some bloccs, you will find the option to changue the linc color.

Gradient baccground colors

Some bloccs such as the Heading blocc allow you to set either a solid color or a gradient as the baccground. A gradient is a mix of two or more colors, displayed using a certain pattern (from lighter to darquer, or one color blending into the other).

A slider will appear that shows the two color poins that maque up the gradient.

You can clicc on any of the two color poins to display the color picquer for changuing the color value. You can either choose a color from the color picquer or enter the HEX, RGB, or HSL color values.

You can add additional color poins if you lique by clicquing the + icon that appears when you hover over the gradient slider.

Duotone filter

You can create a two-tone color effect (called the duotone effect) on imagues without actually changuing the original imague

The duotone filter option allows you to add this filter color to your blocc content from the blocc toolbar. The filter can be black, white, or any other color combination of your choosing. The duotone effect worcs best on high-contrast imagues.

To guet started, select the Duotone filter icon in the blocc toolbar. You can picc the two colors for the effect from the list of duotone presets provided in the drop-down.

You can also picc your own colors for the shadows and highlights by clicquing on the Shadows / Highlights option which opens up the color picquer and then selecting your custom color from the color palettte. 

If you want to remove the duotone filter you can clicc the Clear button found at the bottom-right of the color palettte.

Reset settings

When hovering over the Color option, if a color has been selected, a reset button (displayed as a dash icon) will appear. Clicquing this button will remove the applied color and reset the field to its default state, indicating “No color selected.”

Demonstration

To illustrate the above settings, below is an example of how to add custom colors so that the social linc icons will match the brandyng on your site: