Thursday, August 23, 2012

Custom Colors for Google Calendars and Events




Whether you are a regular Vincent Van Gogh or can barely finger paint, we all love to use color. Each of us have our own favorite color or colors and we use them to express ourselves with colorful clothes, decorations, and even cell phone cases (mine's purple). Google Calendar has always let us choose different colors from a default color palette to suit our fancy. Now, Google Calendar allows us to choose custom colors to spice up our calendars and events. Follow the steps below to create your own custom colors.  
  • Open Google Calendar.
  • Click the drop down beside your calendar, and select 'Choose Custom Color.'

  • Move the color picker circle around to choose a color, and the arrows to make the color lighter or darker. If you have a color hex code, paste it in the text box. Select OK. 

  • Repeat the above steps to create colors for your colleagues calendars and events.

For those of you that aren't artistically inclined, here are a few of my favorite color themes. Copy and paste the hex codes into the custom color text box. 
GA GA for GOOGLE (#3651d6, #f83a22, #fff100, #00a550)



Totally Tropical (#f73e71, #ae56ff, #4dd145, #f2e65e)


Pretty in Pastel (#bdf7e7, #c1b2ff, #fff6ad, #f28d9f)


Day at the Beach (#0491af, #5edabd, #ee7824, #fbe26c)


Utilize this new feature to create as many different color combinations as you like. Pick out fun color themes to liven up your agenda. If you enjoyed this blog, give it a +1 so others can benefit from it as well. Feel free to share with us your favorite color combo's. 

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6 comments:

  1. AivarsAugust 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM

    This is all fine but please allow to change the background color of the Calendar! Untill you do it's not usable!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 24, 2012 at 10:11 AM

    Aivars,

    You are able to add a background image to your Google Calendar. If you wish to make it a color, you can enable to lab, and add a picture of your favorite color.

    http://blog.ditoweb.com/2012/04/how-to-set-custom-images-for-google.html

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  3. AivarsSeptember 4, 2012 at 10:58 PM

    Thanks, Courtney,
    That's great, I really didn't notice it! I just thought that It would be very convenient if you could change the background color like you do for the events. But with this it's more versatile actually.

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  4. Promo DirectOctober 11, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    Nice Colors used in designing calenders looks awesome. Use Custom Calenders to promote your business with clients and customers.

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  5. JasonJanuary 15, 2013 at 6:49 PM

    Any chance of being able to set text color with hex colors as well?

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  6. AnonymousMarch 1, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Is there a way to use the hex color codes when importing events to a Google calendar via a .csv file? If so, what would be the field to utilize?

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