# Is this a bug in Text Colors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elements\ **Created:** [October 22, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961 "2025-10-22T16:09:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/1 "2025-10-22T16:09:06Z")
I am just creating a new template and I defined my own color set like below ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/a/7/a7817aefb0c1b0099164ab8a0fbc96f8ed19e8c5.png) So there are my own colours for brand, accent, surface and text. When I am using now these new colours everything works as expected but not for the text color. When I change in my project the text color to text it looks correct ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/9/d/9d5a746f46646bc7d55bd0235e351074b989ad86.png) When I deselect now my text and go back and select it again, I then see in the color field the original color of the theme and not my defined color. That has no influence on the text of the page, here everything is ok. When I am using the other self defined colours like accent, brand and surface they do not show these behaviour, they work as expected. It is only with text. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/2/9/290b5fe164d8c632de077aa294f441b4e4ae37d1.png) Is there a bug or is the problem sitting in front of the screen 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/2 "2025-10-22T16:12:59Z")
It’s always hard to tell what’s going on with seeing the project. Can you share a sample project with the issue so we can take a look? ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/3 "2025-10-22T16:14:51Z")
Sure, I send it to your mail as it is early stage development and meant for selling 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/4 "2025-10-22T16:22:24Z")
Could the problem have something to do with the fact that you have defined your custom TEXT colors in the reverse order to the NORMAL TEXT colors? Yours go from light to dark (left to right), whereas the standard ones are the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/5 "2025-10-22T16:22:31Z")
Sure, can you send it to [forumsupport@realmacsoftware.com](mailto:forumsupport@realmacsoftware.com) ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/6 "2025-10-22T16:32:03Z")
Could be @handshaper but with all the other self defined colours it’s working fine. I also thought maybe a typo in the word “text” like a hidden space or so. But I keyed in the name again and no change. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/7 "2025-10-22T16:51:50Z")
@WeaverPixel, I played around with the file and it all seemed to work just fine. Have you tried restarting Elements? If it’s still an issue (and I’m not doing it right), can you colour record a video of the bug in action so I can see exactly how to re-create it! ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/8 "2025-10-22T17:01:54Z")
Thanks @dan and @handshaper for the quick look! I restarted Elements and everything works. So the problem was sitting in front of the screen 😀 I also will change the bold marking of the text as you suggested. Don’t know why I used it today, normally I don’t do it. Maybe time to finish working. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/9 "2025-10-22T17:50:36Z")
Haha, no problem, glad you got it sorted! ---
**Author:** ![Doobox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/doobox/32/32373_2.png) [@Doobox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Doobox)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/10 "2025-10-23T00:44:48Z")
To replicate it: [https://www.doobox.co.uk/Vault/Video/forum-posts/coloruibug.mp4](https://www.doobox.co.uk/Vault/Video/forum-posts/coloruibug.mp4) ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/11 "2025-10-23T07:10:13Z")
Hi @dan I just replicated it again. Setup a new project as @Doobox did. The effect is as shown in his video. Then saving the file, closing Elements and open it again. The effect is gone. This effect is shown only on “text” not on others like surface. Maybe what @handshaper wrote is the root cause. The originally defined text colors are the only ones which go from dark to bright, all the others go from bright to dark. ---
**Author:** ![annebourdon](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/annebourdon/32/2391_2.png) [@annebourdon](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/annebourdon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/12 "2025-10-23T15:26:58Z")
Hi, I’m not sure this is a solution to your problem, but there’s another way to modify the text colour (as well as other colours like brand, surface, and accent), as explained here: [Colors | RapidWeaver Elements Docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements/theme-studio/colors). When the text colour is overridden in this way, there’s just one remaining item for text in the list of colour choices, which makes it easier to find the right one. ---
**Author:** ![WeaverPixel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/weaverpixel/32/25453_2.png) [@WeaverPixel](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/WeaverPixel)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/is-this-a-bug-in-text-colors/51961/13 "2025-10-24T08:45:30Z")
Thanks @annebourdon @dan, I was using the way you are doing in the video here [https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements/theme-studio/colors](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements/theme-studio/colors) as @annebourdon suggested. And with that workflow the bug does not appear. So I copied the textfield and changed the colors in the copied textfield, voila that works.