Customizing Brightspot's appearance

You can customize Brightspot's color scheme and layout. All users can customize Brightspot's appearance for themselves. Administrators can customize the appearance for a specific site or for the global site.

Customizations at the global level apply to all users.
Customizations at the site level override those at the global level.
Customizations at the user level override those at the site and global levels.

Hover with the mouse in the upper-right-hand corner of the header until a brush appears.

Paintbrush icon for customizing Brightspot's appearance
Click brush.
Using the table below as a reference, customize the appearance of each component.
Click one of the following:
- Save to user—Saves the settings for your Brightspot account.
- Save to site—Saves the settings for users working on the current site.
- Save to global—Saves the settings for all sites.
Click close.

Brightspot appearance settings

Field	Definition
Presets	List of standard color combinations.
Appearance	List of appearances, including: Light—The standard Brightspot appearance. Dark—Brightspot's Dark mode. Follow OS—The default appearance mode of the operating system being used.
Boxed Input	If toggled on, places border around fields. If toggled off, places border at bottom of fields.
Compact	Displays the content edit form with smaller labels and fields, so more of it appears in your screen without scrolling.
Compact Rails	Displays widgets in the right and left rails with smaller labels and fields, so more of them appear in your screen without scrolling.
High Contrast Mode	Displays Brightspot in a high-contrast mode, improving accessibility and ideal when working outside or with strong ambient light.
Header Background	Background color of header.
Dominant	Editorial toolbar background, field labels.
Accent	Tab indicator.
Gray	Tab labels, placeholders, numbers in selection fields.
Red	Error messages.
Orange	Used in customized version of Brightspot.
Yellow	Field changed since last save.
Green	Editorial toolbar border, color of Publish button.
Blue	Cursor in field.
Purple	Used in customized version of Brightspot.