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I really like this suggestion and appreciate that Canvas engineers have responded favorably, but it needs to be developed further. I believe the reason Google Classroom, Weebly, and Blogger are attractive to users is their ability to choose a theme. I have found Canvas to be very tedious and time consuming to make appealing for myself, much less a younger, more visual generation. Canvas designers commented that "the new theme editor does not allow for font selection, but it does provide color personalizations as you suggested." I have tried to use the background feature, but it only highlights the sentence in a color of choice. It seems that I need to learn html language in order to apply this feature? This is neither practical nor efficient for most teachers, which will drive teachers to always choose an easier option! I spoke with more experienced teachers and was told that you could utilize features in Google docs to decorate a page, but I tried it and didn't like the way it looked. Twentry-first century learning requires visual aesthetics. A picture (artistic page) says a thousand words! I want my students to be able to enjoy my Canvas page. While different fonts would be cool, I'm more concerned with making my page visually pleasing according to my classroom environment and personality. In short, Canvas is easy to navigate but it is visually unappealing to me as the teacher and I'm sure to students! ... View more