Document Themes

Updated on Feb 19, 2026

Document themes enable you to specify colors, fonts and a variety of graphic effects in a document and affect the look and feel of the whole document. Each theme contains a color scheme and a font scheme and is represented by the DocumentTheme class and can be modified by the Theme property of RadFlowDocument. Document theme contains two parts – color scheme – responsible for the colors, and font scheme – responsible for the fonts.

• Color Schemes

• Font Schemes

• Document Themes

• Getting Actual Values

Color Schemes

A color scheme has a unique name and contains a number of predefined colors. Its representation in RadFlowDocument's model is the ThemeColorScheme class. A scheme defines twelve colors and each of these is assigned a sole ThemeColorType. The following list contains all ThemeColorType values:

• background1
• text1
• background2
• text2
• accent1
• accent2
• accent3
• accent4
• accent5
• accent6
• hyperlink
• followed hyperlink

The twelve color types above are used for creating ThemableColor objects. They determine the color of the scheme that appears as the actual color of the ThemableColor instance. As you change the theme or the color scheme, the actual color of the ThemeableColor object changes as well. For example, if you set the fill of a cell to be a ThemableColor, applying a new theme or another scheme also affects the solid fill.

Example 1 demonstrates how to create a ThemeColorScheme object. Note that the example passes a name and twelve colors to the constructor. Every color has a comment next to it, so you can see its corresponding ThemeColorType.

Example 1: Create a ThemeColorScheme object

c#

ThemeColorScheme colorScheme = new ThemeColorScheme(
	    "Mine",
	    Colors.Black,     // background 1
	    Colors.Blue,      // text 1
	    Colors.Brown,     // background 2
	    Colors.Cyan,      // text 2
	    Colors.DarkGray,  // accent 1
	    Colors.Gray,      // accent 2
	    Colors.Green,     // accent 3
	    Colors.LightGray, // accent 4
	    Colors.Magenta,   // accent 5
	    Colors.Orange,    // accent 6
	    Colors.Purple,    // hyperlink
	    Colors.Red);      // followedHyperlink

There are several ways to create a ThemableColor object:

• Passing two parameters to the constructor – ThemeColorType and double.

  • ThemeColorType is an enum which has twelve possible values (the aforementioned color types).

  • The second parameter is of type double and should be between -1 and 1. It represents the tint and shade to be applied to the selected color.

• Passing ThemeColorType and ColorShadeType.

  • ThemeColorType is the same as in the previously mentioned constructor.

In order to create colors that depend on the current document theme, you need to use ThemableColor objects.

Example 2: Create a ThemableColor object

c#

ThemableColor themableColor = new ThemableColor(ThemeColorType.Accent1);

Font Schemes

A font scheme is represented by the ThemeFontScheme class. Every font scheme consists of a name and a number of predefined font families. Each font family corresponds to one of two font types:

• Major

• Minor

The code in Example 3 illustrates how to create a ThemeFontScheme object. A name and two font family names are passed to the font scheme constructor. The former font family name corresponds to the Major ThemeFontType and the latter - to the Minor.

Example 3: Create a ThemeFontScheme

c#

ThemeFontScheme fontScheme = new ThemeFontScheme(
		    "Mine",
		    "Times New Roman",   // Major
		    "Arial");		   // Minor

In order to use the document theme's fonts you need to use ThemableFontFamily objects. Again, there are several ways you can create one:

• Passing a ThemeFontType object as a constructor parameter – this way you will bind the object being created to the currently selected document theme.

• Passing a FontFamily object or a string representing a FontFamily name – the result would be a static FontFamily, meaning it will not be changed when the document theme is changed.

When you need to create a font that depends on the current document theme, you need to use ThemableFontFamily objects.

Example 4: Create a ThemableFontFamily object

c#

ThemableFontFamily themableFont = new ThemableFontFamily(ThemeFontType.Major);

Document Themes

Now that you have a color and a font schemes, you can create a new DocumentTheme. You need to specify a name and pass the already created color and font schemes.

Example 5: Create a DocumentTheme object

c#

DocumentTheme theme = new DocumentTheme("Mine", colorScheme, fontScheme);

There are a number of predefined color and font schemes. You can find them in a static class called PredefinedThemeSchemes. The class exposes the properties ColorSchemes and FontSchemes that hold all predefined schemes.

Example 6: Using a predefined scheme

c#

DocumentTheme theme1 = new DocumentTheme("From Predefined schemes", PredefinedThemeSchemes.ColorSchemes[0], PredefinedThemeSchemes.FontSchemes[5]);

Changing the current document theme is as easy as setting a single property.

Example 7: Change the document theme

c#

RadFlowDocument document = new RadFlowDocument();
	document.Theme = theme;

Predefined ThemeColorSchemes

The table includes all 42 predefined theme color schemes with their corresponding color values for each color category (Background 1, Text 1, Background 2, Text 2, Accent 1-6, Hyperlink, and Followed Hyperlink).

Theme Name	Background 1	Text 1	Background 2	Text 2	Accent 1	Accent 2	Accent 3	Accent 4	Accent 5	Accent 6	Hyperlink	Followed Hyperlink
Office
Office 2007 - 2010
Grayscale
Adjacency
Angels
Apex
Apothecary
Aspect
Austin
Black Tie
Civic
Clarity
Composite
Concourse
Couture
Elemental
Equity
Essential
Executive
Flow
Foundry
Grid
Hardcover
Horizon
Median
Metro
Module
Newsprint
Opulent
Oriel
Origin
Paper
Perspective
Pushpin
Slipstream
Solstice
Technic
Thatch
Trek
Urban
Verve
Waveform

Predefined ThemeFontSchemes

RadWordsProcessing offers a set of predefined ThemeFontSchemes listed in the table below:

Theme Name	Major Font	Minor Font
Office	Calibri Light	Calibri
Office 2007 - 2010	Cambria	Calibri
Office 2	Calibri	Cambria
Office Classic	Arial	Times New Roman
Office Classic 2	Arial	Arial
Adjacency	Cambria	Calibri
Angels	Franklin Gothic Medium	Franklin Gothic Book
Apex	Lucida Sans	Book Antiqua
Apothecary	Book Antiqua	Century Gothic
Aspect	Verdana	Verdana
Austin	Century Gothic	Century Gothic
Black Tie	Garamond	Garamond
Civic	Georgia	Georgia
Clarity	Arial	Arial
Composite	Calibri	Calibri
Concourse	Lucida Sans Unicode	Lucida Sans Unicode
Couture	Garamond	Garamond
Elemental	Palatino Linotype	Palatino Linotype
Equity	Franklin Gothic Book	Perpetua
Essential	Arial Black	Arial
Executive	Century Gothic	Palatino Linotype
Flow	Calibri	Constantia
Foundry	Rockwell	Rockwell
Grid	Franklin Gothic Medium	Franklin Gothic Medium
Hardcover	Book Antiqua	Book Antiqua
Horizon	Arial Narrow	Arial Narrow
Median	Tw Cen MT	Tw Cen MT
Metro	Consolas	Corbel
Module	Corbel	Corbel
Newsprint	Impact	Times New Roman
Opulent	Trebuchet MS	Trebuchet MS
Oriel	Century Schoolbook	Century Schoolbook
Origin	Bookman Old Style	Gill Sans MT
Paper	Constantia	Constantia
Perspective	Arial	Arial
Pushpin	Constantia	Franklin Gothic Book
Slipstream	Trebuchet MS	Trebuchet MS
Solstice	Gill Sans MT	Gill Sans MT
Technic	Franklin Gothic Book	Arial
Thatch	Tw Cen MT	Tw Cen MT
Trek	Franklin Gothic Medium	Franklin Gothic Book
Urban	Trebuchet MS	Georgia
Verve	Century Gothic	Century Gothic
Waveform	Candara	Candara

Getting Actual Values

In order to get the actual value from ThemableColor or ThemableFontFamily, you need to call the GetActualValue() method on the corresponding object.

Example 8: Get actual value from ThemableColor

c#

Color actualColor = themableColor.GetActualValue(theme);
//The actual color is the same as Accent1 color of the colorScheme.

Example 9: Get actual value from ThemableFont

c#

var actualFont = themableFont.GetActualValue(theme);
//The actualFont is the same as the Major font of the fontScheme.

See Also

• RadFlowDocument
• Styles