Rise Template Using Tropic Tonalities

This is my very first ELH Challenge, and wow, did I pick a doozy! I decided to make a Rise template course focusing on four colors from Pantone's suggested palette, Tropic Tonalities. Cloud Dancer served as the foundation (of course) with Kiwi Colada as anchor, and Capri and Bright Marigold as accent colors.

 

I used playful and modern Rise fonts—Maven Pro for headers and Poppins for paragraph text—to reflect the nature of the color palette and inspirational photo.

One thing that is both a blessing and a curse when using Rise is the limitations in customization (although Articulate has made great strides in improving that!). As such, I created my own previous and next buttons just so I could use the green anchor color while retaining the Cloud Dancer theme color.

The other thing I discovered was that when using a color background for the tabbed interactive, the font color didn't change for better contrast (e.g., active tabs show white text on light green background, yuck). So I had to save a low-opacity kiwi rectangle as an image, upload that as a background with no overlay, and that seemed to do the trick 🥵

If I were to do it over again, I would probably make the kiwi green the theme color, and then upload Cloud Dancer as an image background over and over again, just so I could easily have functional navigation buttons in my anchor color. All in all, this was a fun experiment on seeing how I could make Rise bend more to my will, but I'd probably go with Ye Olde Storyline for better customization ☺️

Cloudy With a Chance of Dancing Rise Template