Custom Color Palettes and Themes
Design stunning visual themes with custom colors, gradients, and material finishes.
In This Tutorial
The Color System
Every visual element in the Creator Studio is customizable through the Color panel. You can set individual ball colors, boundary colors, background gradients, trail colors, and particle colors. Colors are defined in HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) for intuitive adjustment. The HSL model makes it easy to create harmonious palettes by keeping saturation and lightness consistent while varying hue.
Built-in Palettes
The Creator Studio ships with 20+ curated color palettes designed by digital artists. Palettes include Neon Pulse (high-contrast neon on black), Ocean Drift (blues and teals), Sunset Blaze (warm oranges and pinks), Monochrome (grayscale elegance), and Candy Pop (pastel rainbow). Select a palette to instantly apply it to all visual elements.
- •Neon Pulse is the most popular palette for TikTok content.
- •Ocean Drift works best for ASMR and relaxation videos.
- •Monochrome is underrated — it creates sophisticated, minimalist aesthetics.
Creating Custom Palettes
Click "Create Palette" in the Color panel to design your own. Add 2–8 colors that will be distributed across your balls. Use the color wheel to pick hues, then fine-tune saturation and lightness. The live preview shows how your palette looks in the active simulation. Save custom palettes to your library for reuse across projects.
Background Gradients
Backgrounds are not just flat colors — they support multi-stop gradients with configurable direction and type (linear, radial, conic). A dark radial gradient with a subtle colored center creates depth and focus. For social media, dark backgrounds with a slight warm or cool tint outperform pure black because they reduce harshness on OLED screens.
- →Gradient types: Linear, Radial, Conic
- →Maximum gradient stops: 8
- →Background animation: Supported (slow gradient rotation)
- →Opacity: 0–100% per stop
Material Finishes
Beyond flat color, balls can have material finishes that affect how light interacts with their surface. Options include Matte (flat, no highlights), Glossy (sharp specular highlights), Metallic (reflective, color-shifted highlights), and Glass (transparent with refraction). Material finishes add depth and realism that sets professional content apart from amateur work.
- •Glossy finish with bloom creates the most eye-catching neon look.
- •Metallic finish pairs beautifully with dark backgrounds.
- •Glass material is GPU-intensive — use sparingly on mobile devices.
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