Customizing Appearance

Make your dashboard feel like your own by adjusting its appearance. Click the palette icon in the top navigation bar to open the appearance settings.

#Accent Color

The accent color is used for highlights, active tabs, buttons, and other interactive elements across your dashboard. Choose from 10 colors:

Default (brand color)
Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Cyan, Lime, Green, Yellow, Orange

Click any color swatch to apply it instantly.

#Color Scheme

Pick the overall color scheme for your dashboard:

Light - bright background with dark text
Dim - a softer, muted dark theme
Dark - full dark background

Your choice applies to the entire dashboard right away.

#Wallpaper

Turn on Wallpaper to put a background image behind your dashboard. It is off by default, so nothing changes until you enable it.

Built-in wallpapers - 29 backgrounds to choose from: scenic photography (aurora, dunes, peaks, shore, glacier and more) and soft abstract gradients. Click a thumbnail to apply it instantly.
Custom image - click the last tile in the grid, then Upload Image to use a photo of your own. Drag and drop works too. The image is resized and stored on your account, and Replace Image swaps it later.

Widgets adapt automatically when a wallpaper is active: they pick up a frosted-glass blur and a slightly see-through fill so the content stays readable, and a scrim keeps contrast right in both light and dark schemes.

Prefer solid widgets? Turn off Glass Widgets at the top of the wallpaper grid. The wallpaper stays, but widgets drop the blur and the see-through fill and look the way they do without a wallpaper. On pages with lots of widgets this also makes scrolling smoother, since the blur takes extra work for the browser to draw.

Your wallpaper is part of your account settings, so it syncs to every browser and device you sign in on.

#Give Each Page Its Own Look

Each page can have its own accent color and wallpaper, so you can tell your work page from your personal page at a glance.

Open the page you want to change.
Click the palette icon and switch from All Pages to This Page at the top of the panel.
Pick an accent color, a wallpaper, or both. The page keeps them, and every other page stays as it was.

To go back to the shared look, click the reset button next to Accent Color or Wallpaper while This Page is selected. When you open the panel on a page with its own look, it starts on This Page, and All Pages tells you which settings the page overrides.

A page can also turn its wallpaper off while your other pages keep theirs. On a phone, swiping between pages with different wallpapers fades from one to the next.

Color scheme, widget spacing, layout, browser tab and Glass Widgets always apply to all pages. The All Pages / This Page switch only shows up once you have more than one page.

#Browser Tab

Give the browser tab your own title and icon. This is handy with the browser extension, where your dashboard opens in every new tab.

Title - type a name in the field next to the icon. Leave it empty to keep the default "Start Page HQ" title.
Icon - click the icon tile to pick one of the built-in icons, drawn in your accent color, or upload an image of your own (premium plans). Remove the icon to go back to the default Start Page HQ icon.

Changes show up in the tab right away and sync to every browser and device you sign in on.

Control how much space appears between widgets:

Tight - minimal spacing between widgets
Normal - balanced spacing (default)
Loose - extra room between widgets

#Widgets Layout

Choose how widgets are arranged on the page:

List - one widget per row, stacked vertically (default)
Grid - two widgets side by side

The grid layout works on screens 640px and wider. On smaller screens, it automatically falls back to the list layout.

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