Changing the default "modern" theme

Tanya Denton
Iron Contributor
Feb 22, 2018
Here is a classic Team Site i created the other day. Default it looks

Changed it to another colour theme, using Change the look, and it now looks like

I have to say it takes an age to apply the new theme. (and the site icon is what i uploaded the other day).
- Rich Browne
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 22, 2018
  Ah yes, apologies Tanya you are right. Changing to a different theme (e.g. Breeze) does make the pink go away. Though if I change back to Office the pink returns. Looks like I can resolve this with a custom composed look. Thanks for your help!
Rob Ellis
Bronze Contributor
Feb 22, 2018
Have you tried setting the classic theme to one of the others - and see if the modern colour scheme follows it?

I have a customer that uses the default tenant site collection (tenantname.sharepoint.com/), with mostly classic pages in the root, but a number of subsites using modern pages.

I created and applied a custom colour scheme for it (using the SharePoint Color Palette tool), applied it to the root site, and all modern pages, etc. took the new colour scheme.
- Rich Browne
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 22, 2018
  You're absolutely right Rob, custom composed look is the way to resolve this. Hopefully modern themes will be coming to classic team sites soon though!
  - Rob Ellis
    Bronze Contributor
    Feb 22, 2018
    You may find that if you take a copy of the default theme, and add it as a custom one, if you then select that custom one, your modern sites may behave.
    
    (I've not tried it)

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