Backdrop, player and theme
The two layers your page is drawn in, and the four colours they read.
A page is built in layers: a backdrop fills the frame, a player sits on top of it, and either can be switched off. They are separate choices because they are separate things — a backdrop runs on its own clock, a player moves with the audio.
The ramp
Each layer carries four colours. The first is the page's base colour, and it decides something else as well: a pale base sets the whole page in near-black lettering, a dark one in white.
| Step | Role |
|---|---|
| 1 | The page behind everything. |
| 2 | The body of the effect. |
| 3 | Its highlight. |
| 4 | The top of the ramp. |
The editor dims a step the chosen backdrop does not draw and says so under the row, so a colour you pick is a colour you will see.
Themes
The theme catalogue comes in two rows — dark pages and light pages — with the same families in both. A light theme is its dark twin lit from the other end: the base is the palest step and the player ends at the deepest colour instead of a white core.
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