# Add a background color to cards

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/add-a-background-color-to-cards/1342>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 17, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/add-a-background-color-to-cards/1342 "2024-10-17T10:57:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EthosLuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/46a35a/32.png) [@EthosLuke](https://community.noloco.io/u/EthosLuke)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/add-a-background-color-to-cards/1342/1 "2024-10-17T10:57:38Z")

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This may be more of a personal thing and others may disagree but I think there should really be a background colour applied to the cards on the cards layout. Having them transparent just harms my eyes as they blend in too much with the page (despite having the shadow and border lol). They (imo) should be white on light mode and bg-gray-800 on dark mode.

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/add-a-background-color-to-cards/1342/2 "2024-10-21T05:58:57Z")

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Thanks for the feedback @EthosLuke

I know you’re probably talking about a slight white or gray, but if you want to actually give them a background color, you can use [Record Colors](https://guides.noloco.io/collections/display/record-colors)

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**Author:** ![EthosLuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/46a35a/32.png) [@EthosLuke](https://community.noloco.io/u/EthosLuke)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/add-a-background-color-to-cards/1342/3 "2024-10-21T07:54:42Z")

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Thanks Darragh,

Yep exactly I’m talking about a white / grey depending on light/dark mode if no record color is applied. At the moment they look a bit out of place as every other element on a page has a white/gray background except these.