Manage Color Palettes

When all your content creators use different colors for their pages, it can make your Confluence site look unconnected and confusing. Color management makes creating content that looks and feels like it belongs together easier. It allows admins to create color palettes site admins can create global color palettes for use in every space. Global palettes can be good for things like brand or organizational colors. Space admins can create space color palettes for use in the space they administer. These can be good for team or product colors. These color palettes are offered as options inside our macros that have color options. 

The macros that have color options are:

• Alert
• Button
• Background
• Advanced Cards
• Tabs

Manage Global Color Palettes

In the Manage Color Palettes screen, you can add, edit, share, unshare, and delete color palettes. To get to this screen:

1. Select the cog icon to take you to the Administrator Setting page.
2. Select Manage Color Palettes.
   
   This screen will only show an example palette until you create your first one.
    

Create a New Global Palette

You can create as many palettes as you need. 

1. Select the Add New Palette button.
2. Choose a Palette name. eg Kolekti Brand Colors
3. Select the colors for the palette. You can add up to seven colors.
   1. To edit an existing color, either:
      Select the hex code for the existing color, and enter the hex code for your new color. You can add the code with or without the #.
      
      Select the Check button or the Color Picker button and choose your color from the color picker.
      
   2. Add a new color to the palette, select the + button, and edit the color as above.
      
   3. To remove a color from the palette, select the delete icon.
4. Once you have added your colors, select the check box to share your palette with users.
5. Select Save palette.
   

Share/Unshare a Global Color Palette

From the Manage Color Palettes screen, you can easily see which palettes are shared with users and which are not. To add or remove a palette from the list users see inside our macros, select the edit icon next to the palette you want to update.

In the edit screen of the color palette select the check box at the bottom to change the sharing status of the palette. Then select Save Changes.

Edit an Existing Global Palette

To edit a global palette, select the edit icon next to the palette and follow the instructions to create a new palette.

Delete a Global Palette

To delete a global color palette, select the menu button next to the palette you want to delete, then select Delete Palette.

Manage Space Color Palettes

In the Macro Colors screen, you can add, edit, share, unshare, and delete color palettes. To get to this screen:

1. Go to the space you want to add a palette to.
2. Select Space Settings from the left-hand menu.
3. Select Look and Feel.
   
4. Select the Macro Colors tab.
   
   This screen will only show example palettes until you create your first palette.

Create a New Space Palette

You can create as many palettes as you need. 

1. Select the Add New Palette button.
2. Choose a Palette name. eg Kolekti Brand Colors
3. Select the colors for the palette. You can add up to seven colors.
   1. To edit an existing color, either:
      Select the hex code for the existing color, and enter the hex code for your new color. You can add the code with or without the #.
      
      Select the Check button or the Color Picker button and choose your color from the color picker.
      
   2. Add a new color to the palette, select the + button, and edit the color as above.
      
   3. To remove a color from the palette, select the delete icon.
4. Once you have added your colors, select the check box to share your palette with users.
5. Select Save palette.
   

Share/Unshare a Space Color Palette

From the Manage Color Palettes screen, you can easily see which palettes are shared with users and which are not. To add or remove a palette from the list users see inside our macros, select the edit icon next to the palette you want to update.

In the edit screen of the color palette select the check box at the bottom to change the sharing status of the palette. Then select Save Changes.

Edit an Existing Space Palette

To edit a space palette, select the edit icon next to the palette and follow the instructions to create a new palette.

Delete a Space Palette

To delete a global color palette, select the menu button next to the palette you want to delete, then select Delete Palette.

Video Walkthrough

Watch our video walkthrough to see how to use Color Management.