To find these design items...
Step 1: After you log in, click on Calendars (brown box below).
The Your Calendars page will open.
Step 2: Choose the calendar you wish to modify (brown box below).
Step 3: Click on Design (brown box below).
Step 4: Click on Events Listing/Details Colors (turquoise box in image below).
Step 5: Scroll down until you find Details (turquoise box in image below).
Then continue scrolling to find: Schedule header background, Schedule header, Schedule item background, Schedule item text, Schedule item circle, and Schedule item left border.
Let's look at how you can choose your own colors for these design items. If you are not familiar with the DCE custom color picker, check out this article first.
To modify these design items...
Here is how our event's schedule looks when everything is in the default position (turquoise box in image below):
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SCHEDULE HEADER BACKGROUND
The color of the background in your schedule "title" line.
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SCHEDULE HEADER
The color of the text in your schedule "title" line.
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SCHEDULE ITEM BACKGROUND
The background color of all the items in your schedule.
SINCE WE CHOSE A DARK BACKGROUND... our item text is not easy to read. Don't worry. We will fix this now.
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SCHEDULE ITEM TEXT
The background color of all the item text in your schedule.
This step points out an important design tip: pay attention to how all the colors are working together. When the background was lighter, the Schedule item text default color was fine.
It was only because we chose a dark Schedule item background that we had an issue.
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SCHEDULE ITEM CIRCLE
Just as it sounds, the color of the bullet circle for all your schedule items.
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SCHEDULE ITEM LEFT BORDER
The color of the left border of each schedule item line.
Default
| Action: choose a Custom Color
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Because our Schedule item background is so dark, it is difficult to see where this is and wh | Now that we have chosen a custom color, we can see it a little bit: in the image below, notice the cyan (turquoise) line in the gold oval. |
Let's take a clearer look by changing some of the colors...
Now we can clearly see that the Schedule item left border color is cyan (turquoise).
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