Setting colors for the Auctions app

With the Auctions app, you can set the colors used across the auction pages your bidders see — backgrounds, headings, buttons and links — so an auction matches the rest of your brand.

To set the colors:

1. In the administrator, go to Auctions → Configuration. How you reach the Auctions menu depends on which administrator your site has — see Viewing and managing Auctions in the administrator.
2. Click the Design tab.
3. Under Colors, set each color you want to change, using the color picker or by entering a hex value.
4. Click Save.

The colors you can set

Backgrounds

Headings

Set Heading Color (All) first. Use the individual H1–H6 settings only where a particular level needs to differ — for example a page title in your brand color with the smaller headings left dark.

Buttons

Set all four together. Changing only the background is the usual cause of a button whose label becomes unreadable on hover.

Links

What the setting covers

These colors apply to every auction on your site, not to one auction. Auctions has a single set of design settings, so changing them here changes the appearance of all of your auctions at once. There is no per-auction override.

Important: Check your choices for contrast before an event. Pale button text on a pale background, or a link color close to your body text, is hard to read on a phone in a dimly lit room — which is exactly where most bidding happens.

Related articles:

• Setting fonts for the Auctions app
• Viewing and managing Auctions in the administrator
• Creating and managing an Auction