Color and font schemes

A color scheme is a set of colors that your whole publication shares. A font scheme is a pair of fonts, one for headings and one for body text. Switching a scheme restyles the publication in one step. The tools are on the Page Design tab.

Choose a color scheme

Click a scheme in the gallery in Page Design > Schemes. There are more than 90.

Each scheme has eight colors: Main, Accent 1 through Accent 5, Hyperlink, and Followed Hyperlink. When you color an object with one of these, the object follows the scheme. For example, a banner filled with Accent 1 changes color when you pick a new scheme. A color you mixed yourself stays the same.

Make your own color scheme

1. Click Create New Color Scheme… at the bottom of the gallery.
2. In the Create New Color Scheme window, click each color button and pick a color.
3. Type a Color scheme name and click OK.

The new colors apply to your publication right away.

Choose a font scheme

Click Page Design > Schemes > Fonts. Each choice shows the scheme name and its two fonts, such as "Modern — Montserrat / Open Sans". Text that uses the scheme fonts changes. Text set to a specific font does not.

• Create New Font Scheme…: pick a Heading font, a Body font, and a name.
• Update Font Scheme: removes fixed fonts from your styles, so text in those styles uses the scheme fonts.

Set a page background

1. Go to the page.
2. Click Page Design > Page Background > Background.
3. Choose No Background, a solid color, or a gradient (a color that fades into another). The colors come from your color scheme.

At the bottom of the gallery, More Backgrounds… opens the Format Background window, with tabs for Gradient, Texture, Picture, Pattern, and Tint. Apply Background to All Pages copies this background to every page.

To use a picture, select it and click Page Design > Page Background > Apply Image as Background. The picture becomes the background, and the picture object is removed.

A background belongs to a page. A background on a master page shows on every page that uses that master, unless the page has its own. A master page is a background page whose contents repeat on other pages.

Change the template

Page Design > Template > Change Template opens a gallery of designs. Pick one, and JeffPub moves the text and pictures of the publication you have open into that design. You can apply it to the open publication, or make a new publication and leave this one as it is. Your color scheme and font scheme change only if you pick others in the gallery. To restyle a publication without changing its design, change its schemes and backgrounds here instead. See change a publication's template.

Related

• Change a publication's template
• Master pages, headers, and page numbers
• Start a new publication
• Format text and paragraphs
• The Page Design tab