Apply and customize a presentation theme

Zoho Show's built-in themes caters to a diverse field of users. Whether you want to make a basic classroom project on a topic like space or sports; a high-profit business presentation on marketing, sales, or finance; or some other miscellaneous category such as retro, travel, or medicine, you can pick from a wide variety of built-in themes available on Zoho Show to match your idea. A theme is a collection of colors, font styles, background styles, etc. that is applied to all of the slides throughout your presentation. This determines the appearance of your slide and helps make a lasting impression to your audience. Themes are a powerful tool to keep your viewers engaged with your slides and every theme in a presentation has three basic elements: Theme Color, Theme Font, and Theme Background Style.

Zoho Show allows you to quickly control the overall design of your slides by selecting predefined themes that coordinate color schemes, background styles, and images. Check out the presentation below that uses Zoho Show's Celestial theme. 

To choose a presentation theme,

1.  Click on a slide and select FORMAT mode on the right pane.

Whenever you create a new presentation, the Default theme is applied to all of your slides.

2. Select the Themes tab within the pane and choose Change Theme . 

The Themes Gallery will open with a list of themes.
  

 

3. Choose the theme you want to use along with the desired screen size (Normal or Wide) for your slide.

The Themes Gallery contains a thumbnail view of several built-in themes available within Zoho Show along with a short description of the theme, its coordinating colors, and font styles.

4. The chosen theme will be applied to the entire presentation.

1. Different themes use different Slide Layouts.

2. You can switch to a different theme anytime in your presentation.

3. You can further format the theme properties such as Theme Color, Theme Background, or Theme Font to suit specific audiences.

Customize theme properties (font, background style and color)

After you apply a theme, mix and match the theme properties to get the best look for your presentation. Customize and experiment with various theme properties such as theme color/schemes, theme font, and theme background to suit your audience mood and give a unique style and appearance to your slides.

1. Theme Fonts  are the predefined set of fonts to display for the heading, subheading, and body text in all of your slides in the presentation. If you don't like the default theme font that has been applied, then change them without changing the theme's overall look. For example, the 'Lightbox' font with a thin font face helps showcase content by adding a modern, sleek, and crisp look to your presentation. The Theme Font or Font Scheme consists of two font styles: The first font -  Title/heading font and the second font - Body Font, also called the Theme Body text. 
   
    
2. Theme Colors are the set of built-in color schemes which changes the tone of your slides in the presentation. For example, for corporate presentations you might use colors that are subtle and match with your company’s branding and logo, to give your presentations a professional look. The theme color that you choose will always be visible under the possible background colors used when formatting other slide objects such as shapes, pictures, tables, etc.
   
   
3. Background Styles  cover the entire background of your slides and helps influence the mood of your audience. It is formed by combining the theme color scheme applied to your presentation to get the possible lighter and darker shades of background styles. Background style adds special effects to your presentation and evokes a completely different look. For example, adding a light background and dark font, or a black background and light-colored font brings out the contrast between the font and background for easy reading.
   

To customize different theme properties,

1. Select a slide, click FORMAT mode and then Themes tab at the right. 

 

2. Do any of the following: 

1. To change theme font,
   
   Click the Font Scheme dropdown and choose your desired font style. When you click Font Scheme you will see the types of fonts, with the names of the heading font and body text font that are used for each theme font below the theme name. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

1. To change theme color,
   Click the Color Scheme dropdown and choose your desired theme color. The chosen theme color will be applied to the entire presentation and also the Master Slide. The Color Scheme or Theme Color gallery contains 8 colors for each theme.

1. The first two colors represent the background/text colors which are normally in black and white.
   
2. The next four are accent colors that will always be visible over the four potential background colors for your slide objects.
   
3. The last two colors represent the colors of hyperlinked text.
   

1. To change theme background style,
   
   Click the Background Styles dropdown and choose the style you want to apply. The Background Style Gallery has 12 background styles with a combination of subtle, moderate, and intense color styles.
   

   
   

   
   

You can further customize the font style, color and background style in the Master Slide.

Captivate your audience with Zoho Show. Check out the presentation below that uses Zoho Show's Celestial theme. You can also save, share, and reuse them in your own presentations. 

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