How to change the look of a Studio document

Open any document from Your documents on the Studio page. The Look panel across the top shows the current look with a one-line description of what it reads like, and the reminder that matters: "Change it any time; the words stay." All eight are in a row; click a different one to switch the whole document. The eight are:

• Atelier: reads like a small published book. The default for an ebook.
• Broadsheet: reads like a weekend paper.
• Studio: reads like a brand guideline.
• Field Notes: reads like a working notebook. The default for a checklist, mini-guide and worksheet.
• Terminal: reads like a reference manual. The default for a swipe file.
• Risograph: reads like a printed zine.
• Archive: reads like a reprinted classic. The default for a glossary.
• Nocturne: reads like a launch film. The one we pick for the mini-guide in the video.

Under the row of looks, two rows fine-tune the one you have chosen.

• Cover picks the cover style: Framed, Type, Split, Image, Pattern or Minimal.
• Colour from your accent decides how much of your brand colour the pages use. One colour tints everything from your accent. Two colours adds a neighbouring colour for a warmer page. Opposites adds your accent's opposite, kept quiet. Almost none is near black and white, with your accent appearing on its own.

The strip under the row shows the six colours the look has derived from your accent: paper, ink, accent, and the soft, deep and highlight versions of it. Your accent itself comes from Branding. To use a different colour for one document only, click the swatch marked Your school's accent at the top right of the panel, and Reset to go back to your school's.

If you know what you want but not which look gives it, type it in Restyle in words. The box suggests the kind of thing to say: "Try: warmer, more like a field manual, no dark pages". Click Restyle. Knola maps your sentence onto the looks and settings above and applies the closest match. As the panel says, "It changes the look, never the words."

The Cover image panel on the right offers Make one: an image of what the document is about, checked before it lands. If the first is not right, Try another. Usually under a minute.

For the words themselves, Edit at the top of the page opens the document page by page. Change a paragraph, reorder pages, remove one. Closing without saving asks Close without saving? with Keep editing or Close anyway, so nothing is lost by accident.

If you always want the same look, set it once. On the Studio page click Change your look. The Your looks page shows every look rendered in your accent, with See every kind under each to preview it across all six document kinds. Click Make default on the one you want, and it is marked Your default. As the page says, "Your default is what the Studio proposes first; you can pick a different one for any document."