Themes

Colour, font, and formatting settings can be bundled together under the concept of a Theme. When you select a theme, all document elements with a theme attribute automatically inherit those settings.

To access this command...

From the menu bar:

Choose Format - Themes.

From the sidebar:

Open the Design panel.

Theme colours

Theme colours consist of a set of twelve base colours, each with five internally calculated variations. These colours are defined solely by their RGB values, and saved to the document file. An object’s colour can be assigned by referencing a colour from the Theme colours set, either by keyword or index, depending on the context. The base colour names are

Dark 1, Light 1, Dark 2, Light 2,
Accent 1, Accent 2, Accent 3, Accent 4, Accent 5, Accent 6,
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You need to save the document with the ODF 1.3 extended format or later to use themes.

The new feature has been mainly implemented for the import and export filter with MS Office.

Available themes

Display the set of available themes for the document. To apply a theme to the document, double-click on the selected theme.

The top left theme in the Available Themes area is the current applied theme.

Add

Opens the Theme Colour Dialogue Box to define the theme name and the colours of the selected new theme.

Document Theme Colours

Using Document Themes