If the text on the cover page of your guide is hard to read over your cover photo, you can apply an overlay to the image to increase the contrast and make the text easier to read.
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In the new Hub
Open Guidebooks, select your guidebook and click the Appearance tab. The controls depend on your guidebook design.
💡 If your account has more than one guidebook and the card shows Use Guidebook defaults switched on, either switch it off to change this guidebook only, or make the change in Guidebook defaults to update every guidebook that uses them.
Guidebook 2.0
In Front page customizations, under Color overlay, switch on Blend background with primary color.
To change how strong the overlay is, go to Branding: Logo, Colors & Fonts → Colors and click Customize. Choose an overlay opacity of High, Medium or Low for each colour theme.
Click Save Changes.
Legacy design
In Cover background photo, choose a Cover image overlay color (black or white).
Set the Overlay opacity (0–100%). The higher the percentage, the stronger the overlay effect. A range of 30–40% usually gives a nice, balanced look.
Click Save Changes.
📖 Learn more: How to customise your guidebook appearance
In the legacy Hub: for all guides (Settings Template level)
Go to the Settings page → Branding tab.
Click Edit in the Cover Font Colour & Image Overlay section.
From here, you can:
Change the cover text colour (white or black).
Adjust the overlay transparency percentage to control how dark or light the image appears.
💡 The higher the percentage, the stronger the overlay effect. A range of 30–40% usually gives a nice, balanced look.
In the legacy Hub: for individual guides
Go to the Guides tab and click the name of the guide you want to edit.
On the Guide Details page, click Edit in the Guide Cover Details section.
Under Use template level overlay settings, select No.
This unlocks the options so you can adjust the cover image overlay and transparency for this guide only.
Make your changes and click Save.
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