meaning of text/background colors of Theme

[herosz]

Hy!
I definitely don't understand the first four text/background sample of theme colors. Let's note these colors from their lines by 1, 2, 3 and 4.
the color of 1 (gold in my case) appears in the second sample image as Text ← Why not in the first image?
the color of 2 (black) appears in the first sample image as Text
in both sample image color 2 also appears in a circle ← What means these circles?


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color 3 and 4 appear as background
If I want the use these colors e.g. in the body text and hold the mouse over these Theme colors I got Background 1 for the first color as in second attached image ← Now color 1 became background although the background colors were the colors 3 and 4, what happens??
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please someone explain it or guide me to some documentation

[Charles Kenyon]

My writing on Themes may help you understand.
Themes

Here is a link to a document that you can download to try various themes. You are welcome to post your own sample document showing the anomalies you note.
How to attach a screenshot or file in this forum.

[herosz]

Thank's your answer, I read your Themes article but unfortunately it does not write anything about text/background color meaning or about the Sample window of the Theme colors.
I don't have any anomalies in my document, only I want to understand the meaning of text/background Dark1,light1 Dark2,light2 (I know dark1/light1 is the default colors but when used the dark2/light2) namely how to use them and how they look in the "Sample window"?

Thank you in advance.

[Charles Kenyon]

Welcome to the world of Word documentation. There is a lot that is not documented.
You can also look at Faithe Wempen's writing Understanding Themes (and Style Sets) or the Microsoft Blog introducing them: Changing your style in the new Word - Microsoft 365 Blog

text and background color are descriptive names for how the application designers expected these colors to be used. I do not know that they have inherent meanings. The simplest thing to do is create a document using these theme colors and then change to themes that have different colors used and see what it does. You are welcome to report back here with your results. My page has a document that you could download to make these tests.

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[Charles Kenyon]

These also change depending on the background. Here are two shots from the Badge theme with Dark Mode on and off.

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[Charles Kenyon]

Here are the color settings in the Badge Theme:

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If your question is about this dialog, the displays show how the colors act with a dark background.

[herosz]

I use Word 2010 so I don't have Badge theme neither Dark mode. Anyway I can change the document background from PageLayout>PageColor but my question is about the dialog where the Sample displays show how the colors act.
When I define text/background colors I get text1,text2, bg1,bg2 let's mark it by 1,2,3 and 4
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When I want to use these colors the yellow that was color of text2 now become background 1. Why???

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Why color name is text/background if the color of the text by default is always black or white NEVER use these colors unless I don't change it to these such as in the case of any accent color
?

[Charles Kenyon]

The built-in styles and [Quick] Style Sets do use these theme colors. You can use them in your styles. You do not have to do this but you can.

You can download additional themes from Doug Robbins' OneDrive.
Word Themes - OneDrive

In my opinion, themes are primarily for corporate users and those who design templates for others.

Here is my sampler using the Equity Theme which is in Word 2010:

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[Italophile]

In the color palettes the colors always follow the order Light 1, Dark 1, Light 2, Dark 2. As it is frequent practice to put dark text on a light background the colors are labelled Background 1, Text 1, Background 2, Text 2.

As you noted this is not the same order as in the Customize Colors dialog. Not that it matters as these colors can all be used for either text or backgrounds.

By default, Word will use Dark 1 for text. If you look at the VBA enumeration wdThemeColorIndex you will see that this is referred to as wdThemeColorText1.

In PowerPoint, the first four colors are used as the default background color options. Word doesn't automatically apply background colors as the "background" is the color of paper being used.

The images to the right of the dialog show the colors in use to help you judge whether there is sufficient contrast between the light and dark colors. It also shows the accent colors applied to a bar chart to again judge the contrast.

As all of the colors are labelled the fact that they appear in a different order in the color palettes is of no importance.