Learn how to use the color picker in Booking Website Pro to customize site colors and maintain consistent branding across your website.
Color Picker is the function of your editor that lets you manage the color scheme of text, background, overlays, and more. You can choose a color from the color palette, input a HEX or RGB value, or even create a custom gradient. The recent colors feature will help you keep your color scheme consistent and maintain a professional look and feel on your site.
Before you pick the color scheme, you need to choose where you want to use a single color or a gradient.
If you are using the single color option, you can pick a color from the Recent colors tab or jump to Choose another color.
A gradient background will be an available option for row, column, and widget backgrounds and image overlays.
To apply a gradient, with the color picker open, click the drop-down above the color palette (it may say Color), select Gradient, then make sure to:
- Pick 2 colors of the gradient stops
- You can reverse the colors to adjust the stops' positioning
- Choose gradient direction
- The center option will generate a radial gradient
- Side options will create a linear gradient
Gradients cannot be saved in Theme Colors.
Theme colors allow you to define a color palette and link the individual colors to any or all widgets with color settings. The color of any element that is linked to the theme colors will automatically be updated when the linked color is changed in the theme colors settings. This allows you to quickly make color changes, which helps reduce design time and ensures your site's style is consistent across pages.
To learn how to configure theme colors, see Theme Colors.
Save colors that are frequently used across your site by adding them to the Saved Colors list in the color picker.
To add a color to the saved colors, click the Saved Colors tab on the color picker and click the + icon. To remove a color from the Saved Colors list, right-click the color and select Remove.
You can save up to 48 colors and gradients in the Saved Colors list.
Select a color's hue using the color palette on the right or the color panel. Alternatively, you can enter the HEX or RGB value of the color you want in the text box below the vertical color gradient.
To match a color perfectly from anywhere on your site (images, texts, and so on), click the eyedropper tool and select the color from your site you want to use. No need to spend any time trying to figure out a color’s exact name or value.
The contrast checker for text colors helps improve the accessibility of sites by indicating if the contrast between the text and the background meets the AA or AAA standard*. The contrast checker appears in the color picker whenever the color picker is being used for text.
The following is the criterion that determines if the AA or AAA standard is met:
| Type of text | Standards* | Font size | Minimum contrast ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular text | AAA | Under 18pt | 7:1 |
| Large text | AAA | 18 or 14 pt bold | 4.5:1 |
| Regular text | AA | Under 18pt | 4.5:1 |
| Large text | AA | 18pt bold or 24pt and larger | 3:1 |
*In accessibility standards, "AA" and "AAA" represent different levels of color contrast requirements. AA level means your colors have enough contrast to be readable, but might still present problems for some users. AAA level means you have high contrast that should be readable for the vast majority of your users.
The contrast checker will be disabled in the following circumstances:
- If the selected text has multiple colors. For example, if several words in the text are blue and several others are pink.
- If the text is on a gradient background.
- If the text is on an image background.
- Gradient is not available for text elements, so you will not see it in the Color Picker for text elements in the widgets design editor of the Theme tab.
- When working with backgrounds, switching between Color and Image will set the settings on the previous option to null. For example, if you were using a color and changed the setting to Image, any color or gradient settings will be removed.
- Gradients override individual button backgrounds. To change them back, reselect the background for individual buttons.