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Brand Kit in Rise 360
Feature Idea: As an ID for a company with a specific brand package, I would love the opportunity to create a custom theme/brand that includes more than one color to streamline the customization/editing process. Currently, you can only select one hex code as the "theme" color, which appears throughout block customizations.
With a brand kit, there could be a palette of all brand colors that would then appear within the formatting settings instead of the generic rainbow palette, which then reduces the need to input hex codes individually.
It would be nice to be able to set custom Styles. For example, I often use a light blue background on some blocks. I wish I could simply click the Style icon and select it from a list instead of clicking custom + inputting the hex code.
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Rachael_Silvano Thank you for replying to this thread to give us this exciting update. We just set up our brand kit and were able to make it the default for everyone in the enterprise. This is a GAME CHANGER! Thank you for listening to the feedback, proposing it to the dev team, rolling out a Beta version, and for informing us.
I hope you keep this feature, as it has already made editing significantly more streamlined.
MorganLavey , JessMannina-243 and RebeccaRoehm-ed - I wanted to just quickly jump in and let y'all know that we did recently release a public beta of a Brands kit offering, I'd love to know your thoughts and hopefully this helps solve a pain point in making branded training easier!
I replied below so I am unsure if you saw it, but I would like to echo the excitement for the brand kit. I also love that we can set it as the default for the entire organization. We have a few facilitators with licenses that aren't designers, and they can sometimes struggle with manually setting up fonts/colors and such. This is huge!
My one more wishlist item... 😉 the Custom Block feature has become my favorite. However, I notice I use a lot of the same design elements in certain blocks. I wish I had my own personal content library where I could upload assets. I see that you're trying a "Pull from your sources" feature, but I cannot get that to work. Just an additional idea to consider as the custom blocks become more robust! (excited about interactivity in these as well).
Oh great feedback MorganLavey - thank you for sharing! I'll tag Kyle_Clements who is helping run the Beta, but my other suggestion is to use the feedback form here to make sure the product team sees this suggestion:
Rachael_Silvano - This is a total game changer!!! 🎉 Thanks so much for taking the feedback into consideration and actually implementing it. We’re going to save SO much time, and, perhaps most importantly, there will be less temptation to throw my laptop out the window. My computer thanks you! 😂
JessMannina-243 and RebeccaRoehm-ed thank you both so much for coming in and sharing your early feedback! We always really appreciate knowing when a new update lands right for folks and this is no exception 😄
My team is already working on putting it to use. Thank you for making this happen!👏
I agree with you. For what we pay for Articulate licenses, a proper brand kit feels like a very basic expectation. I don’t know of any organization that realistically operates with a single color system—that’s not just limiting, it’s out of step with how branding actually works. As others have pointed out, the current approach also feels unnecessarily inefficient and ultimately a waste of time.
I am 100% behind you on this request.
Having to type in a hex code every time a color change needs to be made is maddening. I can't even begin to calculate how much time is wasted having to do this over and over.
Hi MorganLavey,
That’s a great idea! Rise 360 currently supports one theme color at a time, but it doesn’t yet include a full brand kit or palette where you can store multiple brand colors. I’ve shared your suggestion with our product team so they can see how a multi-color brand kit would help streamline course styling and speed up design consistency.
For now, the best workaround is to keep your brand color hex codes handy and apply them manually in the color picker.
Thanks for sharing this idea, it’s a thoughtful improvement that would make branding in Rise 360 much easier.
EricSantos what's the status on this? Tagging you in my comment below as well. For what we pay for Articulate licenses, a proper brand kit feels like a very basic expectation. I don’t know of any organization that realistically operates with a single color system—that’s not just limiting, it’s out of step with how branding actually works. As others have pointed out, the current approach also feels unnecessarily inefficient and ultimately a waste of time. Rise is one of the only authoring tools that is set up this way. Instead of focusing on AI functions that don't work 99% of the time maybe start with something basic that every organization would benefit from.
Having to manually enter a hex code every time you want to do a color change is an astronomical waste of time. Being able to set a custom color palette should be a no brainer, bare minimum feature.
I don't understand why Articulate continually chooses to waste time on things that aren't really that impactful. It is so frustrating to see requests (that have been asked for since Rise's release) such as custom color palettes and text styles get ignored for things like "Quick Share".
