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The difference between themes and styles

The difference between themes and styles

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The difference between themes and styles

- In this chapter, we're going to shift our focus to the look and feel of your diagram using Themes. Themes and Styles, which are two different things, can really change the look of your diagram and individual objects. We'll start by exploring the difference between Themes and Styles. Let's start with Themes. Currently, the diagram has certain colors, certain fonts being used in the title attributes. You can see the connectors have their own style. This is all based on the currently selected Theme, which was the default when this was created. But let's go to the Design tab here for a second and take a look at what's highlighted in the Themes group here. It's this guy right here that's called Linear. But we can change a Theme, and all it means is selecting something from our presets. We can click the dropdown to see the long list. Hover over these, you get a nice little preview of what the diagram might look like if you make that selection. So as we move around, you can see totally…

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