Match your gallery and delivery email colors

Use Cover Studio on a computer for this workflow. Cover Studio and its matching controls are not available on phones. A matching design already applied on desktop still works when you send a delivery email from your phone.

Can I make my emails match the color of my gallery?

Yes. In FOCL Galleries, Cover Studio → Match gallery & email carries your cover’s colors and type through to the gallery page and its client delivery email. Preview the email, then choose Apply cover & matching. Applying does not send an email.

Match the cover, gallery and email

Open the gallery and choose Design → Cover → Cover Studio → Open Cover Studio. Choose a cover photo first if needed.
Choose or edit the cover design, including its background and title colors and typeface.
Click Match gallery & email above the canvas. Leave Match this cover’s colors and type checked.
Review the actual Delivery email preview. Switch between Desktop and Phone; it includes your saved delivery wording.
Click Apply cover & matching and wait for it to finish. This applies the cover and matching styling together. It does not publish a draft gallery or send mail.
When ready, publish the gallery if necessary. Use Send to client → Preview email to check the selected message and styling before sending.

Can I use my own hex color?

Yes. In Cover Studio, choose Background → Background color and enter your hex value, drag the picker, or choose a swatch. Click away, choose Done, or press Enter in the hex field to keep it. Cancel or Escape restores the previous color. A custom color is not limited to the suggested swatches. For title colors, select the text and open Appearance → Text color.

The color stays in your draft. To use it in delivery emails, open Match gallery & email, review the preview, and choose Apply cover & matching. Changing the color alone does not send an email or update an already-sent message.

You can also enter colors in Library → Brand kits. Paper / background sets the cover background; Ink / text sets its text; Accent / buttons sets cover buttons and the matching email’s buttons and links. Finishing a color choice updates and autosaves the cover draft. The accent is saved even if your cover has no buttons. Save brand kit is only needed to reuse the palette in other galleries.

What matches?

The cover background becomes the matching page background and surface. If you chose a brand-kit accent, matching uses that color for buttons and links; otherwise it uses the title color. Colors are adjusted when necessary for readable contrast. The gallery uses the coordinated font pairing. The delivery email uses the applied Studio cover photograph, matching colors, and a compatible serif or sans serif font.

An email keeps its own layout. It does not reproduce every cover layer, custom font, animation, collage or crop pixel for pixel. Use the email preview to see the result your client will receive.

This feature styles the gallery delivery email. It does not restyle expiry reminders, account notifications, or emails you send outside FOCL. Your portfolio homepage has its own design in Homepage Studio.

Is this the same as an email template or color preset?

They work together, but control different things:

Settings → Client emails saves the subject, message, headline and button wording. That editor uses a sample preview. Choose the wording you want, then preview a real delivery in the gallery’s Send window. See Your email templates.
Cover Studio → Match gallery & email applies that gallery’s cover and delivery styling. The template editor does not need a color picker for this to work.
Settings → Branding → Colors saves gallery page palettes. Applying a color preset alone does not recolor the delivery email or cover artwork. Matching uses the applied Cover Studio design. See Save and reuse your gallery colors.

If you want a particular palette everywhere, set those colors in your Cover Studio design and apply matching. Applying a separate gallery color preset afterward can override the page colors while the email keeps the applied cover colors. Applying a matching cover again restores its matching page colors.

Why is my email still showing the old colors?

You saved a draft. Autosave and Save to draft keep work private. Use Apply cover & matching, or Apply to gallery after editing a cover that already has matching enabled. Delivery uses the applied design, never an unpublished draft.
You changed only a gallery color preset. Page palettes do not update email styling. Use the Cover Studio matching workflow above.
You switched to a Quick cover. Quick covers do not use the saved Studio matching design. Reopen Cover Studio and apply the cover with matching.
You are viewing the template editor’s sample. Check Send to client → Preview email for the real gallery delivery instead.
The preview or save failed. Use Retry preview if shown. Apply is unavailable until the email preview loads; an apply error keeps the dialog open so you can retry.

After matching is enabled, later cover color or title-font edits carry through when you apply that cover again. Emails already sent cannot change.

Turn matching off

Open Match gallery & email, uncheck Match this cover’s colors and type, review the preview, then choose Apply cover without matching. Your Studio cover stays applied without its matching presentation. The gallery uses its separately saved page palette and the delivery email returns to its standard styling. Cancel leaves the existing applied setup unchanged.