Report design
Manage the colors, fonts, and layout that every report template inherits, and set one theme as the workspace default.
Report design is where you control how every PDF report Auditmark generates looks. You define one or more themes, each carrying a complete set of colors, typography, spacing, and cover settings, and then nominate one as the workspace default. Every template inherits the workspace default unless it overrides it on its own Report tab.
Go to Report design in the main navigation to open the theme library.
Theme library
The library is split into two sections.
| Section | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Your themes | Themes you created or imported. These are editable. |
| System themes | Built-in themes provided by Auditmark. These are read-only. |
Each theme is shown as a card with three preview swatches and its name. The card with a Default badge in its top corner is the current workspace default.
When you open the page, Auditmark selects your first theme and opens it in the editor below the grid, so the editor is ready to use right away.
Create a theme
Select New theme (the dashed card at the end of the Your themes grid). Auditmark creates a blank theme named "New theme" and opens it in the editor.
Clone a system theme
System themes are read-only. To customize one, select it and then select Clone to customize. Auditmark creates a copy in Your themes, named after the original theme with "copy" appended, and opens the copy in the editor.
Select a theme to edit
Select any card to open it in the editor below the grid. Selecting a card does not change which theme is active; it only opens the editor for that theme. To make a theme active, use Set as workspace default (see Actions below).
Theme editor
When you select a theme, the editor opens below the grid alongside a live preview pane. The editor is divided into four collapsible sections: Colors and Typography are open by default; Spacing & page and Logo, cover & footer start collapsed.
Colors
Eleven color tokens control every part of the report's color scheme.
| Token | What it colors |
|---|---|
| Brand primary | Primary headings, key accents, and the cover banner. |
| Brand secondary | Secondary decorative elements. |
| Brand accent | Highlights and callout borders. |
| Surface background | The page background behind report content. |
| Surface muted | Alternating row fills and subtle panel backgrounds. |
| Text body | Main body copy. |
| Text caption | Captions, footnotes, and label text. |
| Severity critical | The badge and row color for critical findings. |
| Severity major | The badge and row color for major findings. |
| Severity minor | The badge and row color for minor findings. |
| Severity advisory | The badge and row color for advisory findings. |
Each token has a color swatch picker and a hex field next to it. You can pick a color from the swatch or type the hex value directly.
Typography
Typography controls two independent type styles: headings and body. Each style has four properties.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Font | The typeface, chosen from a curated list of report-ready fonts. |
| Size | The base size for this style (for example, 11pt). |
| Weight | Regular (400), Medium (500), Semibold (600), or Bold (700). |
| Line height | The multiplier applied to the font size (for example, 1.5). |
Spacing and page
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Page margin | Space between the page edge and the content area, as a CSS shorthand value (for example, 20mm 18mm 22mm 18mm for top, right, bottom, left). |
| Block gap | Vertical space between report blocks (for example, 16pt). |
| Page size | A4 or US Letter. |
Logo, cover, and footer
| Setting | Options | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Logo placement | Left, Center | Where your logo appears in the report header. |
| Logo max height | (text) | The maximum height of the logo image (for example, 14mm). The logo scales down to fit; it never scales up. |
| Cover style | None, Banner, Full bleed | None adds no cover page. Banner adds a colored header strip on the first page. Full bleed fills the entire cover page with the brand primary color. |
| Show page numbers | On / Off | When on, the page number appears in the footer of every page. |
| Running title | On / Off | When on, the inspection title appears in the footer of every page alongside the page number. |
Live preview
The right panel renders a preview of the report theme as you edit. The preview refreshes automatically about 250 milliseconds after each change, so you can see the effect of each adjustment without saving first. If the preview cannot render, the panel shows a "Preview failed" message instead.
Actions
An action bar above the editor provides options that depend on whether the selected theme is yours or a system theme.
For your themes
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Rename | Edit the name field at the left of the action bar. The new name is written when you select Save. |
| Save | Writes all pending changes to the theme, including the name and every token value. |
| Delete | Removes the theme permanently after you confirm. Templates using this theme fall back to the engine default at the next report generation. Reports already generated and stored are not changed. |
| Set as workspace default | Marks this theme as the workspace default. The button is replaced by a "Workspace default" badge, and all templates without their own branding override use this theme. |
For system themes
System themes cannot be renamed, saved to, or deleted; the editor fields are disabled. The only available action is Clone to customize, which creates an editable copy in Your themes.
Import brand from PDF
Import brand from PDF reads a branded document (such as a brand guide or an existing PDF report) and proposes a candidate theme from the colors, fonts, and logo it detects in that file. Select Import brand from PDF at the top right of the page to start.
Enable brand import
Brand import is opt-in. The first time you open the dialog, Auditmark shows an enable step explaining that the PDF is processed with Anthropic under its no-train terms. Select Enable brand import to activate the feature for your organization. You only need to do this once.
Import flow
- Select Import brand from PDF at the top right of the page.
- In the dialog, choose a PDF file for the Brand PDF field.
- Auditmark reads the document. This can take a few seconds.
- When extraction is complete, the dialog shows the candidate brand: the detected name, a Palette of hex colors read from the PDF, any Detected fonts, an extracted Logo if one was found, and a live Preview of the candidate theme.
- Review the candidate. If it looks right, select Create theme.
- Auditmark saves the new theme to Your themes, opens it in the editor, and closes the dialog.
The colors in the candidate come from the PDF itself, not from a model. You can edit any token in the editor after the theme is created, before you save or set it as the workspace default.
Per-template overrides
The workspace default applies to every template that has not set its own theme. To give a specific template a different look, open the template editor, go to the Report tab, and use the Branding sub-tab to select a different theme or configure a per-template logo and page size. See Templates: Branding.