Setting up and using Brand Kit color palettes

Create and manage color palettes and color themes from your Brand Kit to help you or your team create designs with on-brand color schemes.

Color palettes define your brand’s set of colors, while color themes define how those colors are applied across your design.

For teams, only owners, administrators, and brand designers can create and edit brand color palettes.

Create and edit brand Color palettes

From the homepage side panel, select
Brand.
If there are multiple Brand Kits, select the one you want to edit from the dropdown.
Select Colors. From there, you can do the following:

Add a new Color palette: Select
(Add to category), and select
Add palette.
Add a color to an existing palette: Select
Add new and pick a color. To apply color gradients to your brand colors, please see Creating and using color gradients.
Delete color from palette: Hover over the color tile, and select
.
Rename palette: Click on its current name to edit it.
Delete palette: Click the
(more icon) across the current palette name, and select
Delete palette. If you only have one palette, you’ll be unable to delete it. You need at least one palette in your Brand Kit.

Add color themes

Color themes let you define how colors work together across backgrounds, elements, and text. When you apply a theme, these colors update together.

Use color palettes to store your brand colors, and color themes to apply them consistently across your designs.

You can generate color themes from Brand Template suggestions or extract them from existing designs.

To create and apply color themes, see Add and apply color themes in Brand Kit.

Created color palettes will be available on the Canva editor for easy access. For teams, palettes will be available to all members.

Canva Free users can only have one color palette, with up to three colors.
Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, Canva Education, Canva Enterprise, and Canva for Nonprofits users can create 100 palettes, with up to 100 colors each.
Canva Teams, Canva Business, and Canva Enterprise admins can set up Brand Controls to restrict your team’s access to only your brand palettes.
Color themes are available on Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, Canva Education, Canva Enterprise, and Canva for Nonprofits.

Add CMYK colors to brand color palettes

Add the CMYK equivalents for your brand colors to create high-quality print designs.

Note: Only Canva Pro users, and Canva Teams and Canva Business administrators and brand designers can add CMYK colors to their team’s brand color palettes.

From the homepage side panel, click
Brand.
If there are multiple Brand Kits, select the one you want to edit from the dropdown.
Under Colors, select a color tile from the color palette.
Select
Add CMYK.
To add a new color, select the
tile first, then select
Add CMYK.

Use colors from your Brand Kit

Select an element on your design.
Select a color tile from the editor toolbar to bring up the color panel. Your brand color palettes should appear there.
Select a color from the color palette to apply it to the element.

If you’d like to apply the color palette to all pages, select Apply to all pages.

If you have multiple Brand Kits, you can switch from one to another by selecting the current Brand Kit name, and then on the one you want to switch to.

Manage Brand Kit colors in the editor

When designing, it’s easy to manage your brand colors on the go. You can change, add, or remove colors in your Brand Kit right in the editor. You can even add, rename, or remove color palettes if you need to.

Select an element, text, or anything that you want to change the color of.
From the toolbar, select the color.
If you have more than one Brand Kit, select it from the dropdown.
Select Edit to make changes to the colors in this Brand Kit.

Here’s what you can do:

Add a new color: Select the
plus icon, then pick a color or enter a hex code.
- Change a color: Select the color you want to change, then pick a color or enter a hex code.
Delete a color: Hover over the color tile, then select
close icon
Add a palette: Select Edit on Brand Kit, then select the
plus icon, then choose Add palette.
Rename a palette: Select the palette name, then type the new name
Delete palette: Select the
more icon to a palette, and select
Delete palette.

Note: You need at least one palette in your Brand Kit. If you only have one palette, you won’t be able to delete it.

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