Title: Emphasizing social buttons
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Emphasizing social buttons

 *  [chriskbacon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriskbacon/)
 * (@chriskbacon)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emphasizing-social-buttons/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I really like the writr theme, but the social buttons (Facebook, twitter, etc.)
   are extremely subtle within this theme – they blend into the background so much
   they’re almost invisible.
 * Does anyone know how to change the color on these to make them pop more? Or just
   somehow default to the official colors of the social buttons?
 * Thanks!
 * Chris

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emphasizing-social-buttons/#post-5045157)
 * Hi Chris, glad you’re liking Writr.
 * With a bit of custom CSS you can tweak the social icons to be any colour you 
   like. 🙂
 * I right-clicked your Twitter icon on [http://chriskbacon.wordpress.com/](http://chriskbacon.wordpress.com/)
   and opened a [browser inspector ](http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/how-to-find-your-themes-css/)
   to see which CSS rule is applying the colour to the icons.
 *     ```
       .social-links a {
            background-color: #bb00bb;
       }
       ```
   
 * That’ll turn your icons purple just as an example, but you can use [any colour you like.](http://0to255.com/)
 * Since you’re on WordPress.com, you’ll need the [Custom Design](http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/)
   upgrade in order to make CSS tweaks. Feel free to ask further CSS questions over
   in the CSS Customization forum on WordPress.com – this forum is actually for 
   folks running the WordPress software on their own servers. 🙂

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