Design

In one line: Background, the five board colors, and font sizes — everything about your game’s look. On the new Settings page this lives in the Branding section, together with your Logo.

Works on: all paid plans.
You might call it: design, themes, colors, backgrounds.

Where to find it

1. Click Customize in the top navigation bar (or the Settings button at the bottom left of the game Edit page).
2. Branding is the first section on the Settings page. You can also type “background” or “color” into the Search settings box at the top to jump straight to a setting.
3. Set these once for all your games — or differently for a single game. How both work: Global and Game Specific Settings.

Background image

Put a picture behind the whole game board.

1. Go to Branding → Background image.
2. Add your image any of three ways: drag and drop a file onto the Upload card, click Use Copy/Paste to paste one, or click Choose a file to browse your computer.
3. Use a PNG, JPG/JPEG, GIF, or WebP file.
4. Click Manage to see what you have uploaded and to turn a background on or off (called Activating). You can store several backgrounds, but only one is active at a time. When none is active, the preview tile reads “No background active.”

*After uploading, be sure to Activate the image you want to use by clicking on the Manage button and then turning on the Activate switch for the applicable image.

The five colors (what each one paints)

Each color control changes a different layer of the board. To change one, click its color swatch and pick a new color — it applies immediately. Every control has its own Reset link that returns just that color to the default.

• Background color (1) — the page area around the board. Hidden whenever a background image covers it.
• Game board color (2) — the board surface behind the categories and tiles.
• Question tile color (3) — the tiles, and the full-screen background behind an open question or answer. If open questions look wrong on your projector, this is the dial to turn.
• Tile points color (4) — just the point numbers on the tiles. (The old Customize page called this the “dollar amount” color.)
• Text color (5) — category titles, question and answer text, and the game title. Check it against both the tile color and the board color — poor contrast is why the back row squints.

Here’s how those five colors look on a real board. The numbered boxes match the five controls above:

Reset Section (top right of the Branding header) returns the whole section — logo, background, colors, and fonts — to the defaults in one click.

Fonts

1. Font family for question and answer text (1) — the font used for questions and answers during gameplay. Choose from Factile Default, Arial, Georgia, Impact, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana, or Courier.
2. Three separate size dropdowns, one per board element. Each offers Small, Medium (Default), Large, and Larger:
   1. Game title font size (2) — the game name at the top of the board.
   2. Category title font size (3) — the category headers.
   3. Points font size (4) — the point values on the tiles.

*Good to know: the font family applies only to text left in the default Factile font while editing. If you picked a custom font for a tile in the editor, that font wins for that tile.

*Projector room? Bump category titles and points up one size so the back row can read them. The title is just decoration.

Related settings

• Logo — upload logos for the top and side of the board (Business plan).
• Game Settings — point symbols ($, €, pts) and custom point values per row.
• Sound — music, sound effects, and read-aloud.