Setting up and using Brand Kit colour palettes

Create and manage colour palettes and colour themes from your Brand Kit to help you or your team create designs with on-brand colour schemes.

Colour palettes define your brand’s set of colours, while colour themes define how those colours are applied across your design.

For teams, only owners, administrators, and brand designers can create and edit brand colour palettes.

Create and edit brand Colour palettes

From the homepage side panel, select
Brand.
If there are multiple Brand Kits, select the one you want to edit from the dropdown.
Select Colours. From there, you can do the following:

Add a new Colour palette: Select
(Add to category), and select
Add palette.
Add a colour to an existing palette: Select
Add new and pick a colour. To apply colour gradients to your brand colours, please see Creating and using colour gradients.
Delete colour from palette: Hover over the colour tile, and select
.
Rename palette: Click on its current name to edit it.
Delete palette: Click the
(more icon) across the current palette name, and select
Delete palette. If you only have one palette, you’ll be unable to delete it. You need at least one palette in your Brand Kit.

Add colour themes

Colour themes let you define how colours work together across backgrounds, elements, and text. When you apply a theme, these colours update together.

Use colour palettes to store your brand colours, and colour themes to apply them consistently across your designs.

You can generate colour themes from Brand Template suggestions or extract them from existing designs.

To create and apply colour themes, see Add and apply colour themes in Brand Kit.

Created colour palettes will be available on the Canva editor for easy access. For teams, palettes will be available to all members.

Canva Free users can only have one colour palette, with up to three colours.
Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, Canva Education, Canva Enterprise, and Canva for Nonprofits users can create 100 palettes, with up to 100 colours each.
Canva Teams, Canva Business, and Canva Enterprise admins can set up Brand Controls to restrict your team’s access to only your brand palettes.
Colour themes are available on Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, Canva Education, Canva Enterprise, and Canva for Nonprofits.

Add CMYK colours to brand colour palettes

Add the CMYK equivalents for your brand colours to create high-quality print designs.

Note: Only Canva Pro users, and Canva Teams and Canva Business administrators and brand designers can add CMYK colors to their team’s brand color palettes.

From the homepage side panel, click
Brand.
If there are multiple Brand Kits, select the one you want to edit from the dropdown.
Under Colors, select a color tile from the color palette.
Select
Add CMYK.
To add a new color, select the
tile first, then select
Add CMYK.

Use colours from your Brand Kit

Select an element on your design.
Select a colour tile from the editor toolbar to bring up the colour panel. Your brand colour palettes should appear there.
Select a colour from the colour palette to apply it to the element.

If you’d like to apply the colour palette to all pages, select Apply to all pages.

If you have multiple Brand Kits, you can switch from one to another by selecting the current Brand Kit name, and then on the one you want to switch to.

Manage Brand Kit colours in the editor

When designing, it’s easy to manage your brand colours on the go. You can change, add, or remove colours in your Brand Kit right in the editor. You can even add, rename, or remove colour palettes if you need to.

Select an element, text, or anything that you want to change the colour of.
From the toolbar, select the colour.
If you have more than one Brand Kit, select it from the dropdown.
Select Edit to make changes to the colours in this Brand Kit.

Here’s what you can do:

Add a new colour: Select the
plus icon, then pick a colour or enter a hex code.
- Change a colour: Select the colour you want to change, then pick a colour or enter a hex code.
Delete a colour: Hover over the colour tile, then select
close icon
Add a palette: Select Edit on Brand Kit, then select the
plus icon, then choose Add palette.
Rename a palette: Select the palette name, then type the new name
Delete palette: Select the
more icon to a palette, and select
Delete palette.

Note: You need at least one palette in your Brand Kit. If you only have one palette, you won’t be able to delete it.

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