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Color Handling 197

• THEME COLORS (OR NAMED COLORS) can be used again and again in the document. (As
such, they are like styles in a word processor.) Any edits you make to a Theme color
are immediately reflected on all objects and parts of the drawing that use that color.
You can also copy Theme colors between documents. Theme colors appear on the
Color Line and in the COLOR GALLERY. If there are any Theme colors already present in
the design and you import or paste templates from the Designs gallery containing
Theme colors with the same name, you will be asked if you want to match the actual
color of the imported Theme colors to the existing ones. The Theme colors in most
templates are consistently named so when you import elements from different themes
colors are matched perfectly.

IMPORTANT: If you just select an object on the page that has a NAMED COLOR applied to it,
and alter it with the color editor, this will always turn it into a LOCAL COLOR instead of a
NAMED COLOR (because it is assumed that if you try to edit the color of the object that’s
what you mean to do. If you really want to change the NAMED COLOR so this and all
occurrences of the color change, then you should do so by editing the named color).

Theme color schemes

Many of the web themes offered in the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG include alternative
color schemes which can easily be applied to websites which use the same theme, to
transform the color scheme instantly. The color schemes are normally found in the
Online Content Catalog in each theme under WEBSITE THEMES, after all the page layouts
and separate graphic elements that make up the theme. They all have "Color scheme" in
their titles in the Online Content Catalog, so they are easily identified.

To apply a color scheme to your website, simply drag the scheme from the Online
Content Catalog and drop it on your page. You can try applying the color schemes of one
theme to a website created from the templates of another theme. But you will get mixed
results doing this and some schemes will not work acceptably with some themes. So for
best results stick to the color schemes of the theme that you used to create the site.

One of the color schemes provided with each theme matches the default colors used by
that theme. This allows you to easily return to the original colors if you prefer, after
experimenting with the alternate schemes.

Of course you don’t need to use the provided color schemes to re-color your website.
You can customize the theme colors yourself and choose a combination of colors that
you think work well together. See "Editing named colors (on page 201)".

Creating your own color schemes

It’s very easy to create your own color scheme files, which you can pass on to other
Designer Pro users for them to apply to designs created with the same theme.