Background Overlay enables you to place a transparent layer between your background and your text. While this feature can dramatically enhance your website aesthetics, it is an essential user experience function to ensure the legibility of your text.
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Background Overlay is frequently used where an image has similar colours to the text that is placed on top of it. For example, if you have an image of a field of yellow sunflowers and one of your main brand colours is yellow, you may wish to place an overlay on top of the image, to allow the text to be read clearly.
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Your website has ten overlay colours in total. These are controlled in the Colours tab of the Styles area, found via the Main Menu.
The ten overlay colours are:
OVERLAY OPACITY:
Opacity measures the Overlay's ability to pass light through its surface.
There are 4 strengths of Opacity to chose from: