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 <h3>Formal_White Theme</h3>
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 <p>This theme has the colour gamma in the pale grey/brown area.&nbsp;
 Both RGB and LCD monitors render these colours similarly. A custom logo
 can be easily substituted (see instructions below). The fonts used are
 "Arial, Helvetica" for text and menu items and "Verdana,Geneva" for
 headers, all of which are well-adapted for screen reading.</p>
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 <p>To update logos with your own: </p>
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   <li>create two file with two different sized logos: </li>
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   <li>logo.jpg, height100 pixel </li>
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   <li>logo_small.jpg, height 50 pixel</li>
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   <li>via FTP upload the jpg files into /moodle/theme/formal_withe folder,
         overwriting the existing jpg.</li>
 
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 <p>The  bigger logo will be used for the home page only, while the smaller will
   be used for all
 the other pages. </p>
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