Personalized Colors
When selecting a style for the subscriber pages, subscriber notification emails, and mail job content templates, LISTSERV Maestro gives you the option to select a color scheme. For this color scheme, you can either select one of the pre-defined color schemes, or you can define individual colors. For these individual colors, you can freely select a color from the color picker palette, or select from the personalized colors defined here.
You can use this, for example, to define your own company, school, or club colors as the personalized colors, so that you can easily apply these colors to the subscriber pages, the email notifications, and even your own messages.
The set of colors used by the subscriber pages, emails, and templates consists of three text colors and three background colors:
- Standard Text Color: Used as the text color (foreground color) of all normal text.
- Heading Text Color: Used as the text color of headings and table headers.
- Link Text Color: Used as the text color of links.
- Primary Background Color: Used as the primary background color on which most of the text will appear.
- Secondary Background Color: Used as a secondary background color for special purposes.
- Emphasized Background Color: Used as a background color for areas that are supposed to be more visible (emphasized). Note: This color is only used by the subscriber pages and notification emails, not by the templates.
To change one of these colors, simply click on the Change link in the
associated color patch. This will open a color picker dialog that allows you to select the color from
a palette of pre-defined colors.
Or, you can input the color value directly into the corresponding Value field
(in HTML notation: starting with a "#" followed by the six-digit code for the color). This method also allows
you to define any color, not only the colors available in the color picker dialog.
When defining your own personalized colors, it is important that you select text and background colors that offer a good contrast for good readability. To verify this, a sample with all text types and background types is displayed in the right part of the screen. Here you can verify that your selected text colors are indeed readable on all of the selected background colors.
If you are not sure what colors to select, but you already have an existing web page that uses your colors, then you can enter the URL of that web page into the edit box under "Search for colors on the following web page" and click [Search...]. LISTSERV Maestro will then search for all color definitions that it can find on the specified page and display the corresponding colors. Each color will be displayed with a small color patch and the numerical representation of the color. You can then copy this numerical representation into one of the six "Value" boxes (see above) to set the corresponding personalized color.
After you have finished defining your personalized colors, click [OK] to save the colors. Or click [Cancel] to leave this screen without saving the changed colors.