How do I change the colours?

Most styles take their colours from your cover (Flicker stays black and white), and the Colour · from your cover row gives you ready-made colour sets to choose from; tap the one you've picked again to swap its colours round.

Step by step

1. Find Colour · from your cover. On a phone, tap the Colour tab.
2. Each chip is a small swatch with 'Aa' on it, so you can see the background and the lyric colour together. Tap one. The preview changes at once.
3. On Main colour, Bold colour, Pop or Two-ink, tap the chip you've chosen again to swap its colours round. Keep tapping to see up to four versions, then it comes back to the first.
4. Want a colour of your own? Tap + Your colour. See Can I use my own brand colour?

What each chip means

Chip	What it does
Our pick	Colours we picked from your cover. Every style starts here.
Light	A light background with dark lyrics.
Dark	A dark background with light lyrics.
Main colour	Built around the main colour of your cover.
Bold colour	Built around the boldest colour on your cover.
Pop	Dark, with one bright colour that stands out.
Muted	Soft greys with a hint of your cover.
Two-ink	The whole picture printed in two inks from your cover, one dark and one bright. Only in Xerox, Xerox Poster, Broadside, Behind and Ransom.
Named sets, such as Neon, Pink & blue or Deep blue	Ready-made colours chosen by the style's designer.
+ Your colour	Any colour you like.

You won't always see every chip:

• Light and Dark only appear in styles that have them. When a style's Our pick already follows how light or dark your cover is, you only see the other one.
• If two chips would look almost the same on your cover, we show just one.
• Named sets fill the row up to five choices. Deck always shows all of its sets.

Good to know

• Colour follows you from style to style. Pick Pop in one style and every style uses its own Pop. If a style doesn't offer the choice you made, it shows its Our pick, and your choice comes back when you switch to a style that has it.
• Departure is different. It only has Our pick and + Your colour. Its sign has its own Light colour row under More ways to tweak it.
• Your lyrics stay readable. Whatever you pick, we keep enough contrast between the lyrics and the background.
• No cover art? The colours come from the stand-in cover we made for you. See I don’t have cover art yet. What happens if I skip it?
• Changing colours is free and instant.

If something goes wrong

• The colours look nothing like my cover. A cover that's mostly black, white or grey gives us few colours to work with. Try Main colour or Bold colour, or set your own with + Your colour.
• I tapped a chip and the colours flipped. You tapped a Main colour, Bold colour, Pop or Two-ink chip that was already chosen, which swaps its colours round. Tap it again until you're back where you were (there are four versions), or pick another chip.
• Reset style changed my colour in every style. Colour is shared by all styles, so Reset style puts it back to Our pick everywhere. See How do I undo my changes or reset a style?

Hidden extras

• Tap again to swap. Tapping a chosen Main colour, Bold colour, Pop or Two-ink chip again swaps the colours round. With a mouse the tip says 'Click again to swap the colours round'. The tip only shows on a chip that swaps. In Xerox and Xerox Poster, only Two-ink swaps when you tap it again.
• Two-ink tries other inks too. Each tap on a chosen Two-ink chip gives you the other way round or a different pair of inks from your cover.