How can I revert to the default paragraph text color of #172B4D?

Question

We are using Confluence 6.13.4 and I don't understand why the default paragraph text color is #172B4D when there is no way to pick this color from the color picker.

I've seen some posts where the advise is to:

* Remove formatting - I don't see any option like this
* Change the text color to black - but black isn't the default text color

This is annoying because when you read a specification where you have copied/pasted text in from various sources, some are black and some are this off-black #172B4D and there doesn't appear to be any way to fix this. It's just noticeable that the text color changes throughout the document, which looks unprofessional.

Is there a solution?

How about adding a color tile or menu to the color picker called "Default"?

hdh1326 · Answer

Hi @jthorsta ,

This is a very good question and one that I had as well. Here is a bug for Atlassian to fix this issue in a future release. They are assessing impact, So please go to the bug and vote so they take it seriously. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65230

You bring up the option to Remove Formatting, which from what I found, is the easiest way to fix the issue. You can find it under the "More" dropdown.

Shannon S · Answer

Hello,

Thank you for your recommendation regarding the feature request.

You can create a new feature request by going to jira.atlassian.com and click Create at the top-right. Here, you can explain your situation, and add your recommendation for how to solve it. If you end up doing that, please feel free to share here!

Regards,

Shannon

jthorsta · Answer

Thank you for the quick and detailed response. From my perspective what you did in Version 6.7 is create a new theme, make it the default, and then made it somewhat difficult for users to use that theme in common use cases.

Specifically what I mean is that when building a Confluence document by copying and pasting text from various other sources, other text colors like Black (the default in many systems like MS Word, Outlook, and Google Drive Documents) will be introduced to the Confluence page as Black text. Once this happens you cannot change the copied text to look like your nice new dark blue color text.

It appears that the ticket CONFSERVER-28178 was an enhancement to address this issue but it may not have been described properly. Rather than introduce one new color tile for the dark blue #172B4D why not introduce a way to *remove* the inline color and *revert* to the color defined in the page theme. This is what you see in MS Word with the "Automatic" option I believe.

For now, I'll need to be careful when using my company's Confluence system to always paste text with the Edit > Paste and Match Style option. But this means I can't use CTRL-V which is a hard habit to break. And when collaborating with others users (a main use case for Confluence) and they add text in without following the special steps, their text will come in Black and then can't be fixed to match your default page style.

I'd recommend a new enhancement similar to the one you closed to allow user to *remove* custom color and revert to the default in the theme. This wouldn't just be for Paragraph text. It should be for Headings, etc., anything where user picked a color from the picker to override the default and now wants to revert to the color defined for that text element from the theme.

I don't think this would be very hard to do and would make Confluence much easier for heavy authors who want their pages to look good with your new dark blue color or any other custom color they may have defined in their page theme.