A theme is the fastest way to make a tab look intentional. Instead of colouring things by hand, pick a theme and liveplanner recolours the whole tab at once. The catalogue ships twenty-four themes, and you can save your own too.
What a Theme Covers
A theme sets the colours a tab is drawn in, so everything on it reads as one coherent style:
- On a board, the board's surface, its columns, its cards and their borders and text.
- On a Sheet, its surface, header and grid.
- On a Dashboard, every slot, whose border takes the theme's colour. A board or Sheet shown in a slot is drawn in the Dashboard's theme there, while its own tab keeps its own.
- On a Form, the page the questions sit on.
Text that would not read on a theme's colours is swapped for a readable one, so every theme stays easy to read. Switching themes leaves the tab's font alone.
A theme belongs to one tab, so the tabs of one plan can each wear a different one. A new plan starts on Default, and a tab you add starts on the theme of the tab you added it from.
Light and Dark, for Everyone
Every theme has a light half and a dark half. Which half you see is your own appearance: on Default, light chrome shows the familiar light board and dark chrome a dark one, and every other theme turns the same way, keeping its own hues.
Nothing is saved when the half changes: a colleague in light chrome sees the light half of the very same tab while you work in the dark one. A colour someone picked by hand is drawn as it is for everyone.
Browsing and Applying
You change a tab's theme from the Tab Style dialog: click Style in the bottom-right corner of the editor, and it opens on its home. At the top are Looks, each setting the theme, the finish, the tab font and the background pattern together in one click, led by a Mashup card that rolls a random mix each time you press it. To pick a theme on its own, press Colours under Fine-tune: every theme sits in one list, nine to a page. Click one to apply it. See Changing the Theme for the full walkthrough.
Every control in the Tab Style dialog applies as you click, with no Apply or Cancel, so you can try themes on the tab behind the dialog until one feels right. Undo takes a theme change back if you change your mind later.
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