Hello. In this video we're gonna look at something called Styles  in our design template. Basically it's a way of finding other people's font  and color combinations, okay? And experimenting with them,  figuring out what might work for you. It's a great way to get started with color and fonts  and it's really interesting to understand how  Canva works in terms of  how it does combine some of these things. Fonts get mixed with color palettes,  which then become font combinations,  which are called styles, which are mixed into templates.

Confusing, don't worry, we're gonna go through it. You are gonna be a style color palette, font set master. He's making it sound hard. Actually, it's not that hard. Let's just get into it. Alright, so  where have you've got in your  option one kind of color scheme?

Let's duplicate it here just  so we can compare kind of versions that we're making. Um, so we're gonna duplicate this page  to this icon here, okay? And at the top here we've got, we've got two option ones. So we're gonna have a colorway, A okay,  and a colorway for B. Okay? Two different ways of having color.

Uh, let's have a look at the second one. Okay? And what we're gonna do is just click on anything in here  just to kind of let Canva know  that we're messing around with this guy. And then we're gonna go into our design. So we spend a lot of time in elements  and we will, in this class, design wise,  we only really used it for templates. You know, it's fine to start with the template.

It's perfect. It's great way to get started. I end up just making my own stuff quite often. Or I do use under this design tab quite a lot is this styles  option, especially when you're just getting started  and you don't really have a real good sense of color  and font and things like that. So templates, let's go to styles. So what are styles?

Templates are colors, fonts, and images. Layout. Kind of like things on the page, plus the colors and fonts. Styles is just the colors and fonts, bits. That's the part that I really like. So what we're gonna do is, well,  I'm gonna click on it so it stays out.

Click on styles. Let's explain these ones. So there's kind of three parts to a style. There is font, there is color,  and then there's font and colors. That's these combinations clearly. Then, okay, so if you just wanna pick colors, click on this.

If you wanna adjust the fonts and colors, click on this. If you just want the fonts, just here, get the idea. Okay, so I'm just scrolling down a little bit. It's just me with colors for the moment. We'll dive into fonts Before we finish,  let's just click on the first one. What does it do?

Look at that. That versus that. It's not pulling from the image,  but it's still a pretty cool color combination, right? Like this lighter color. It's kinda like sultana wine color. It's very cool.

Let's click on the next one. Okay. And I'm gonna hit, let's go to see all. So color palettes. See all. And let's just click on a few of them.

Let's go crazy. Let's click away. And it's amazing 'cause like even like, I don't know,  I'm a pretty experienced designer  and often I get trapped  by the same old font, same old colors. So it's really handy to sort go, bam, look at me. I never picked anything that bright. The other nice thing about it is  say that you really like that one.

See the little arrows here? That's our international shuffle sign. Again, click it again and look, it's gonna keep trying  to mix them up to get them in different color combinations. And it's just really clever at keeping the contrast nice. So I can still see the text on the background. And when you've got one that you kind of like, you can say,  all right, I like that one, but I want  this to be the yellow so  I can go into it.

Click on  the box, click in the text bit, okay? And you'll see that this is being used  somewhere on the document. That one, or let's click on this. We've got our sweet skills. We can say, I want to click on this,  but I want the eyedropper. I wanna pull it from like this  background color being used here.

Was that the same color? Might have been the same color. Okay, but you get the idea. So color palettes are really handy. Premixed, set of colors that you can use up the top here. There are some like these pill buttons here.

Okay? You can say gimme all the vibrant ones. Gimme all the bold ones. You can type in here, like, let's type in summer. There's not too many, I don't know. This will get bigger.

I bet you if you type some  and now you'll get more than just three. Okay? But um, that's a handy way of working as well. You hit the little cross to close it down. Let's go back. So the little arrow here, okay, to come back to styles.

Okay, so there's the top. We're gonna come down and come down. So we look at the color palettes and there's uh, font sets. Okay? We're gonna go into fonts really deep when we pick our  logo, but for the moment though,  it might be really nice just to go, alright,  gimme some different fonts. And it's gonna go through and there's,  there's kind of three sets here.

There's a heading, subheading, and a body copy. And just click on them and you're like,  Ooh, I like that one. I like this one. Okay. Ooh. Make various noises when you, you know, that's  how you tell if you've got a good one or not.

Don't like that all caps,  but get a sense for some fonts here. We'll do fonts in the next video,  but let's just click on a few of them. It's really nice to see some combinations that are outside. Ooh, I do like that one. Gling. That's what it is.

Um, yeah. Ooh, I do like this combination. 1, 2, 3 different fonts. So we've worked out color palettes are  pre-mixed kind of color sets. And same with the font sets and combinations is both. Somebody's gone through and said, all right, these colors  with these two fonts would look pretty cool.

Okay? And if I click on this, it's gonna do the same thing. Okay? It's a combination of those two. So for me, often  I will just be picking this separately from this. 'cause I get quite specific about the color  and the font look.

But when you're getting started doing, uh, concepts, okay,  the combinations is a combination of both. So if I hit a template, I'm gonna add it as a new page. Okay? What it's done is it's gone through,  it's given me some physical videos and images,  but it's also given me a style. And that style is made up of this combination here of colors  and fonts, right? So I deleted my template.

I wanna show you one last thing  before we go, is that down the bottom here? Okay, there is image palettes. Okay? So we just access it a different way. There is loads of ways to get into the same place in Canva. Okay?

So I'm gonna click on something in here  and then down here you can see it's pulled a bunch  of colors from this image and I can click on them  and say, yeah, you then hit shuffle, shuffle,  shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Ooh, this is good. It doesn't really pick the purples outta there,  but hey, it's the same thing as going in the back. It's the same thing in here as clicking on the image, right? Clicking and saying Apply colors to page. Okay.

And then going back in here and applying color shuffle. Okay? Same, same. But it actually might just be easier over here. All right. I hope that was useful.

Showing you  how it all ties together. Fonts plus colors, plus the combinations are all smooshed  into styles that are used in templates. He's made it hard. Sorry, we kind of got there, right? Hopefully we're there. We'll  do it more as we go through the course.

Um, yeah, let's go down with that course.