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<\/a><\/p>\nThis box is a drop-down selector for other default colors, plus a color palatte for creating a custom color theme.\u00a0 Click on the box and the drop-down selections shown below will appear.\u00a0 If you wish to create a custom color, click on \u201cMore colors\u2026\u201d at the bottom of the list.\u00a0 After you have completed selecting a color, click the \u201cApply\u201d button and then click okay.\u00a0 The Application Catalog will reflect the selected color upon next being loaded by a client.\u00a0 (I discuss more about custom colors as well as a useful tool that can be used for that the end of the article.)<\/p>\n
Here are the colors in order of selection from the above drop-down menu.<\/p>\n Blue:<\/p>\n Magenta:<\/p>\n Purple:<\/p>\n Teal:<\/p>\n Lime:<\/p>\n Brown:<\/p>\n Pink:<\/p>\n Orange:<\/p>\n Red:<\/p>\n Green:<\/p>\n Customizing colors for the Application Catalog utilizes a standard color palette with which you should be familiar.\u00a0 After selecting \u201cMore colors\u2026\u201d from the Website theme drop-down selector, a standard color palette will appear.<\/p>\n If none of these alternate colors closely match what you need, clicking on the \u201cDefine Custom Colors\u201d button at the bottom will bring up a custom color palette, again, which should be familiar.<\/p>\n The tool I prefer to use for discovering RGB numbers for corporate colors is a free tool named Instant Eyedropper available from SpiceBrains<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is the site for the Instant Eyedropper<\/a> tool itself.\u00a0 The download link is in the upper right-hand corner.\u00a0 After installing this tool, an icon will appear in the system tray (Windows 7 is shown in these examples) as a small color wheel.\u00a0 I\u2019ve put a red square around the icon in the picture below.<\/p>\n Right-clicking the icon brings up color type selections and options.\u00a0 For using color palettes as shown above, select the RGB color type.<\/p>\n Now that the color type is selected, go back to the system tray, left-click-hold the left mouse button and a color point measurer will appear.\u00a0 Continue to hold the left mouse button and drag the color point measurer over the color you want to read.\u00a0 The RGB colors numbers will show and you can then copy these into your custom color palette!<\/p>\n Honestly, this is one of the coolest free tools for graphics that I\u2019ve seen in a long time.\u00a0 One thing to note \u2013 if you have multiple monitors, you must use monitor one.\u00a0 Dragging the color point measurer to any monitor but monitor one will yield a color of 255 255 255 (black) \u2013 not sure why, but it does, so avoid that.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this article, I decided to write about something a little lighter\u2026 color choices within the CM 2012 Application Catalog.\u00a0 If your company likes to have a specific color dominant within corporate websites, perhaps you can preemptively change the color theme of your Application Catalog to match this color before you are asked to do … Continue reading CM 2012 – Application Catalog – Color Themes<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n