Colour schemes

A colour scheme recolours the header, menus, heading bars, category badges, links, buttons and footer in one click. ProMax has 5 schemes; ProMax Pro has 14 plus a Dark mode and individual colour controls.

Choosing a scheme

Go to Appearance › Customize.
Open Colors & Layout (ProMax) or Colors & Design (ProMax Pro).
Click a scheme. The preview updates straight away. Click Publish to keep it.

Color scheme control in the Customizer showing five swatch cards — The scheme picker. Each card shows the scheme's header, menu, accent, badge and link colours.

Every scheme meets WCAG AA contrast for text and buttons. The scheme also recolours the block editor's colour palette, so colours you pick for blocks match the site.

ProMax schemes Free

Default scheme: charcoal header, blue menu, red heading bar — Default

ProMax Pro schemes Pro

Pro includes the five schemes above plus Orange, eight palette-inspired schemes and a full Dark mode.

Dark scheme with dark backgrounds throughout — Dark

Dark mode

The Dark scheme switches the whole site to dark backgrounds with light text, including cards, menus, forms, tables and the block editor preview.

A single post in the Dark scheme — A post in Dark mode.

Fine-tuning colours Pro

Below the scheme picker, Colors & Design has a colour control for each part of the site. A colour you set always wins over the scheme. Leave a colour empty to follow the scheme, so changing schemes later still works.

Colors and Design section in the ProMax Pro Customizer — Colors & Design in ProMax Pro: scheme, width, site layout and individual colours.

Where	Colour controls
Colors & Design	Header background; post and page title colour; post card title colour; body text; link and link hover; buttons; page numbers (background, current page, text); sidebar headings (background, text); footer widgets background, footer widget titles, footer links; copyright bar background
Theme Options › Menu Navigation	Top bar background, hover/current item and links; main bar background, hover/current item and links
Theme Options › General Settings	Heading bar above the post grid
Theme Options › Post Settings	Category badge; next/previous links background and hover
Theme Options › Latest Post	Latest posts strip title colour
Theme Options › Slider	Slide caption background
Theme Options › News Ticker	Ticker label colour
ProMax WooCommerce Settings	Quick Checkout button colour

Pro also sets font sizes for post and page titles (16–72 px), card titles (12–40 px) and body text (12–24 px) in the same section. Leave them empty for the theme defaults.

Header image and background

Both editions support the WordPress Header Image (shown behind the logo area, 1350×140 recommended, any size works) and Background Image/colour panels. Header Text Color in the colours section changes the site title and tagline colour, or hides them when your logo already contains the name.