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This tutorial is for versions 3.1.7 and higher and also for 3.2.1 and higher.

To add new color to your board find and open custom.css that can be found in the theme folder.
In that file change all instances of HEXCODEOFYOURCOLOR to the desired color hex code f.e #9ec3b6.
There are 7 other instance of different shade of the color to adjust to your new color that can be found below
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```
/* Adjust these colors appropriately or use the same color as above */
```
Adjust them accordingly or use the same color as above.
If you use default logo open the images found in the contrib folder and adjust them appropriately and save them in the images folder
Match the names of those logo files in your custom.css file at the bottom of the file.

To use your new color as accent color open options.html file found in template folder and change

ACCENTCOLOR = 'orange'

to

ACCENTCOLOR = 'custom'

To enable your new color in color picker open options.html find

CUSTOMCOLORPICKERCOLOR = 'no'

and change it to

CUSTOMCOLORPICKERCOLOR = 'yes'

Then open hexagon.css file find

.colorcustom { background-color: #ffffff; }

and change it to your color code in this example it would be

.colorcustom { background-color: #9ec3b6; }

After uploading all edited files don't forget to purge the cache

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