Eight ways to style your quiz in 2026
By Joanna , FlexiQuiz.
4 minute read.
The way your quiz looks can be just as important as the questions you ask.
Whether you’re creating an educational assessment, professional training or a fun interactive quiz, the right styling can help engage your learners and create a more enjoyable experience.
From colors and fonts to backgrounds, images and navigation buttons, every design choice helps shape how your quiz looks, feels and works.
In this blog, we will explore how you can update the design of your FlexiQuiz to match your brand's look and feel.
1. Page background colors
The background colors of your quiz are important because they form the foundation of how your quiz looks.
The colors can significantly influence how learners feel about your content. The right colors can strengthen your branding, set the mood, and guide learners' attention.
With FlexiQuiz, you can change the color of various elements on your pages to match your brand or support the overall theme while still ensuring your learning content is easy to read.
There are various places you can change the background colors depending on your quiz template. For example, you can set:
- A single color across the whole screen.
- A variation of colors between the border and the page that contains the text.
- Differing colors for the sides, header, and footer.
2. Background images
Background images, icons, or photos can make your quiz look more exciting and help engage test-takers.
With FlexiQuiz, you can add a different image to various pages on your quiz, including welcome, thank you, sell, quiz, and results.
You can set an image to fit behind the questions and answers.
Or, you can use the bordered layout to add an image to the border and a complementary color to the background of the page where the text appears.
Learn how to add background images to your quiz.
3. Fonts
Fonts are important when designing your quiz. The fonts must be easy to read so that learners can answer your questions while also reflecting your quiz's theme.
FlexiQuiz allows you to pick from hundreds of fonts with different weights and colors. You can add different fonts to different elements of your quiz.
For example, you can pair a funky header font, such as Shrikhand or Sigmar, with a clean body font, such as a sans-serif.
Explore how to add fonts to your quiz.
4. Navigation buttons
Navigation buttons guide participants through the quiz, ensuring a great experience for test-takers. Although small, navigation buttons are essential, so you do not want to overlook them.
You can fully customize the buttons with FlexiQuiz to display the correct message in any language and match the overall style of your learning content.
There are various ways you can customize the navigation buttons, including:
- Colors: Update the colors to ensure they stand out against the background. You can also use different colors for each button type.
- Text: Update the button text to reflect your messaging and language.
- Position: Some buttons let you choose placement on the left or right side of the page.
Learn more about customizing navigation buttons.
5. Ready-made themes
Save time styling your quiz by choosing from a range of FlexiQuiz ready-made themes with a choice of color or image background.
Each theme includes:
- A coordinated color palette for key quiz elements, including backgrounds, buttons, button text, questions and answers.
- A complementary font to create a consistent look and feel.
- An optional background image to add extra visual interest.
- A ready-made layout covering text alignment, page style and controls.
All FlexiQuiz themes are designed with good color contrast to help keep your quiz clear, accessible and easy to read.
You can also create your own custom theme using your preferred colors and fonts, then save it to quickly apply to other quizzes.
6. Logos
Logos are a great way to advertise your organization, build trust, and provide a consistent message for test-takers.
FlexiQuiz offers a range of options for placing and sizing your logo to help you reflect your organization's brand guidelines.
You can add your logo to a FlexiQuiz in the following places:
- The top of all pages on the left, middle, or right-hand side.
- As part of the background when you upload it as an image.
- Respondent portal dashboards. If you have an Enterprise plan, you can add your logo to the header of Respondent portals.
7. Layouts
You can use the layout to support your styling and help learners view the key information.
There are various ways you can lay out your pages and quiz questions.
Page layout
Choose a page style that complements your quiz design.
The Classic layout gives you flexibility to customize the colors of your header, quiz pages and footer, helping you create a consistent look throughout your quiz.
The Bordered layout adds a defined border around the page, helping to frame your content and give each screen a more structured appearance.
Question layout
You can also control how questions and answer options are displayed.
Show answer options below the question for a simple, familiar layout, or position them alongside the question when you want to make better use of the available space.
You can also display answer options inside boxes, helping them stand out and creating a clean, easy-to-follow experience for learners.
8. Custom CSS code
CSS code is an Enterprise feature that enables you to customize your test further to match your quiz requirements and organization brand.
Using CSS code, you can change the size of the fill-in-the-blanks boxes, lay out text with questions and answers to the side, and more.
If you have an Enterprise plan, don't hesitate to get in touch with us to see if we have CSS code to help you style your quiz.
Ready to style your quiz?
Make your quiz your own with colors, fonts, backgrounds, images and more. Whether you’re creating training, assessments or a fun interactive quiz, FlexiQuiz gives you the tools to create an experience that looks great and engages your audience.
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