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School accent colour

Your school’s colour, throughout SMS.

Pick an accent and SMS repaints its buttons, links, active menu item, focus rings and badges to match.

Choosing an accent re-colours buttons, links, the active menu item and badges across SMS. A selection of the palettes.

22 palettes

Colours chosen to stay readable.

Each palette is a full range of shades tuned by hand, so white text on a button stays legible whichever colour you pick.

  • Separate from dark mode. The accent is your school’s colour; light and dark mode are each person’s choice.

The 22 palettes, each shown at its button shade.

Try before you save

See it before anyone else does.

Click a palette and the page around you changes colour straight away, so you can judge it on real buttons and menus. Save to keep it. Leave without saving and the colour you had comes back.

  • Light and dark mode. Each palette has a full range of shades, including the darker tints dark mode uses, so it looks right for staff in either mode.

Previewing a new accent before saving it.

Per branch

Set once, seen at sign-in.

Set the accent on the Appearance tab of School settings. Each branch keeps its own, and the sign-in screen uses the same colour as the rest of SMS.

A fictional school; one branch changes its accent.
FAQs

School accent colour questions

Colouring SMS for your school.

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Staff who are allowed to edit School settings. Everyone in the branch then sees the new colour.

Give Academium SMS your school’s colour.

Download Academium SMS and set up your school, try a demo, or start in free mode.