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title: Background Color
description: Change the background color of every page in your PDF while preserving all content on top.
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# Background Color

Set a solid background color behind all existing content in your PDF. The tool creates a colored rectangle on each page and layers the original content on top, so text, images, and graphics remain fully visible against the new background.

## How It Works

1. Upload your PDF file.
2. Pick a background color using the color selector. The default is a light yellow (#FFFFCC).
3. Click **Change Background Color** to process.
4. The updated PDF downloads automatically.

## Options

- **Background Color** -- A standard color picker for choosing any solid color. Defaults to light yellow.

## Features

- Applies a uniform background color to every page
- Preserves all original content (text, images, vector graphics) on top of the colored layer
- Maintains original page dimensions
- Works with documents of any page count

## Use Cases

- Adding a light cream or ivory background to give documents a softer, paper-like appearance
- Color-coding document sets by applying different background colors to different categories
- Creating visually distinct versions of the same document for different audiences
- Adding a light background tint to improve readability when projecting documents on screen

## Tips

- Light, muted colors work best. A very dark background can make text hard to read unless the text is already light-colored.
- If you want to change both the background and text color, apply the background color first, then use [Change Text Color](./text-color) on the result.
- This tool works at the PDF structural level (not rasterization), so text remains selectable and searchable in the output.

## Related Tools

- [Change Text Color](./text-color)
- [Invert Colors](./invert-colors)
- [Adjust Colors](./adjust-colors)