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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:

Note: Creating color palettes using this feature will not make any changes to existing macros. It just creates a new palette that is offered to users inside the macro editor.

Manage Global Color Palettes

Tip: Only site admins can 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.

Tip:

Giving a descriptive name can help your users know when to use the palette eg. Highlight Colors, or Background Colors.

  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.

You can save a palette without sharing it if it's not yet ready for use.

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.

  1. Select the edit icon next to the palette you want to update.
  2. In the edit screen of the color palette select the check box at the bottom to change the sharing status of the palette.
  3. 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.
Note: If you edit a color palette it will not change the colors of any macros made using the palette. It will only change the options offered to users when they next open the palette in a macro editor.

Delete a Global Palette

Select the menu button next to the palette you want to delete, then select Delete Palette.
Note: If you delete a color palette it will not change the colors of any macros made using the palette. It will only remove the color palette from the options offered to users when they next open a macro editor.

Manage Space Color Palettes

Tip: Only space admins can 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 the menu button next to the space name and then click Space settings. Space settings menu showing the option to open Space settings for the selected space
  3. Click Integrations → Macro colors.

    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.

Tip: Giving a descriptive name can help your users know when to use the palette eg. Highlight Colors, or Background Colors.
  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, click the delete icon.
  4. Once you have added your colors, select the check box to share your palette with users.
  5. Click Save palette.

You can save a palette without sharing it if it's not yet ready for use.

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.

  1. Select the edit icon next to the palette you want to update.
  2. 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.

If you edit a color palette it will not change the colors of any macros made using the palette. It will only change the options offered to users when they next open the palette in a macro editor.

Delete a Space Palette

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

If you delete a color palette it will not change the colors of any macros made using the palette. It will only remove the color palette from the options offered to users when they next open a macro editor.

Video Walkthrough

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

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