Change the colours
Colours date a site faster than anything else — and the dread of breaking something keeps most people from ever touching them. On a bernard-hosted site, a recolour is one sentence and one approval.
How it works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI (it contains a key that works for 12 hours).
- Paste it into your AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use — then ask in your own words, or use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link. Click through a few pages to check the new palette everywhere, press Approve, and it's live.
Your site's colours live in one stylesheet, so the AI changes them in one place and the whole site follows — buttons, headings, backgrounds, all consistent.
The prompt
“Change the colours on my site to [the colours you want, or a feeling like 'softer' or 'bolder'] — keep the text easy to read against the new background.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- How do I change the colour scheme on my website without a designer?
- If your site is hosted with bernard, describe the colours you want to your AI — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — even vaguely ('warmer', 'like my new business cards'), and it edits the stylesheet. You see a preview before anything goes live.
- Can I match the colours to a photo or my logo?
- Yes — paste the image into the chat and ask the AI to pick the site's colours from it. It reads the image, chooses a palette, and applies it consistently across the site.
- What if the new colours make the text hard to read?
- Nothing is published until you look at the preview and press Approve, so you'll see any readability problems before your visitors do. Reject, ask for an adjustment, and try again — bernard keeps a full year of history either way.