How to create a custom map theme
Hover the palette button and click Create your own. Pick a starting point under Start from, change any of the six Colors (or press S to shuffle the unlocked ones), name your theme and click Save theme. Saving custom themes needs Mappi Pro.
Step by step
Open the theme editor
Hover the palette button in the toolbar above the preview and click Create your own under Custom themes (or the New tile, if themes are already listed there). The editor opens in the side panel, and the preview shows every change live.
Pick a starting point
Choose a chip under Start from: a mood like Midnight or Sandstone, or one of the built-in themes. Press S (or Shuffle) to try a new palette for every color you haven’t locked.
Fine-tune the colors
Click Land, Water, Parks, Roads, Borders or Labels to pick a color, or type a hex code. Click the lock next to a color to keep it when you shuffle.
Name and save it
Click the theme’s name at the top to rename it, then click Save theme. The theme is applied to your map and added to Custom themes for next time.
Detail and map labels
- Detail sets how much texture the map shows: forests, parks, buildings and smaller roads. Low values read as Minimal, high values as Detailed.
- Map labels turns the country, ocean and road names printed on the base map on or off. Your destination labels always show. See show or hide map labels.
- Made a change you don’t like? Use Undo and Redo at the top, or ⌘ Z / Ctrl Z.
Edit, rename or delete a theme
Hover a theme under Custom themes and click its pencil to edit it. In the editor, the Theme options menu has Rename and Delete theme. You can keep up to 30 custom themes. They’re saved in this browser for your account, and each map keeps its own copy of the theme it uses.
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- 0:04Hover the palette and click Create your own
- 0:09Pick a starting point, like Midnight, or press S to shuffle
- 0:16Click any color to change it. Lock the ones you want to keep
- 0:25Name your theme, then click Save theme
- 0:35Find it under Custom themes to use it on any map
- 0:41Your theme now styles this map, in the preview and in every export
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