Using Themes

Introduction

Themes allow you to control text formatting such as fonts, alignment, case, color and drop shadow as well as default backgrounds and other options. Themes are applied to songs and scripture in your services.

Default theme

Harmony ships with a default theme called Default. It has some special behaviors:

If you upgrade from Harmony 1.x, the default theme is populated using your existing font and background preferences.

Settings

To open the Themes panel, click the Themes icon in the main toolbar or choose Themes from the Window menu.

Each theme has a name, a default background, and 4 text styles.

Themes window

Background

Backgrounds are set by dropping a media file from the media browser into the Theme panel's image view. Backgrounds are removed from a theme by clicking on the image and pressing the Delete key.

Text styles

The 4 text styles are called Lyric, Scripture, Credit, and LyricDance and apply to their respective text elements. Each style sets font, scaling, alignment, case, color and drop shadow.

To configure a text style, click the Set button next to the text style. A font panel will appear with the configuration options.

Rather than setting a font size in points, Harmony automatically scales fonts based on your display resolution. The scaling setting allows you to manipulate the automatically chosen value by applying a multiplier. The range is 0.1 to 2.0.

Font panel

Adding and copying

To create a new theme, click the plus button in the Theme panel. The new theme is created with the following defaults: no background and each text style is Helvetica, colored white, aligned natural, and has no drop shadow.

Copying a theme is more useful and allows for easy creation of variants of existing themes. Select the theme you wish to copy and click Copy in the Theme panel.

Applying

Each song and scripture verse in your services has a theme menu. Use the drop down menu to apply themes to songs.

Applying a theme

Deleting

To delete a theme, select it in the Theme panel and click the minus button. Any songs or scripture that have the deleted theme applied revert to using the Default theme.

Related articles:

Using Media


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