How your page looks

Colour is automatic. Everything past it is there if you want it, and almost nobody does.

Two things worth knowing before you touch this

A background style is one of a fixed list of seventeen: plasma, caustic, clouds, waves, stars, etching, marble, camo, oil, mosaic, ink, fur, network, grid, dunes, bloom, solid. Anything outside that list is not rejected — it quietly becomes plasma, the default, with nothing to tell you a name did not match. If a style you set does not seem to be doing anything, check the spelling first.

If you read entity data back through the API: an organiser's styling fields sit nested under publicProfile, while an event, venue or professional carries the same fields at the top level. The two shapes are easy to mix up if you are writing one code path against more than one entity type.

Colour is automatic

Every page — event, venue, professional or organiser — gets its colour pair from its own cover image, not from a form field. One accent is anchored off the image and a brighter partner is derived from it, so a directory of many pages does not come out all one colour. A colour we derived may occasionally be adjusted so the directory keeps that spread, but it is never applied over a colour you set yourself.

This is the one part of styling that is genuinely automatic and genuinely used — the large majority of pages on Venued carry a colour, and you do not have to do anything for that to be true of yours.

Everything else is yours to set, and optional

Past colour, a page carries a handful of fields nobody is required to touch: an animated background style, a title typeface, a forced light or dark mode, and a couple of finer background controls. All of them have a sensible fallback, so a page that sets none of them still looks complete — this is deliberately not a panel of knobs everyone is expected to turn. Measured across every event on Venued, only a small fraction carry a background style or a custom title font at all. Set them if you have an opinion about how your page should look; most people don’t, and that is a fine choice too.

A background style is chosen for the page as a whole, not per photo — it is the animated backdrop behind your content, separate from your cover image and your colour.