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Print Page Colors

Print Page Colors let you set the page background and text color for your printed book. You can set them for the whole book at once, or for a single section on its own.

Set Colors for the Whole Book

  1. Open the Print Settings menu.
  2. Under Page Colors & Backgrounds, choose Page Colors.
  3. Set your colors. Every change shows in the print preview right away.

You can set three things book-wide:

  • Background. The color behind every page.
  • Text. The color of your body text on every page.
  • Border color. A single color for the borders Lacuna draws, described in Border Color below.

Leave any of them on Default to keep your theme’s normal color.

Set Colors for One Section

When a single section needs its own look, for example a tinted page behind a chapter opener, set its colors from that section instead:

  1. Open the section’s Options menu (see the Section Options Menu).
  2. Choose Set Section’s Background, then Set Print Page Colors.
  3. Set the Background and Text color for this section.

A section’s colors override the book-wide colors for that section only. Clear them to go back to the book-wide setting. The border color is set once for the whole book, so it is not part of the per-section choices.

Border Color

Border color is a book-wide setting. It tints every border Lacuna draws so framed elements share one palette: callout boxes, subheadings, image captions, and tables.

Leave it on Default to let each of those keep its own border color.

A Note on Print Color

Printed books use CMYK ink rather than the RGB colors a screen shows. When Lacuna builds your print preview, it converts your colors from RGB to CMYK (the SWOP color profile), so a few colors may not match the screen exactly. Bright, highly saturated colors are the most likely to shift. Pick colors a little softer than you might for a screen, and trust the print preview over the color picker.