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How to change the homepage icons and colors

Step 1: Edit the homepage and click the Backend Editor button.

Step 2: Hover over one of the Custom Header elements and click the pencil icon to open the settings window.

Step 3: Scroll down to the Extra Class name field and replace:

fa-circle-o gp-green

With your own icon class and color class.

Available icon class are shown here: https://fontawesome.com/v4/cheatsheet/

Available color classes are:

gp-black, gp-blue, gp-dark-grey, gp-green, gp-light-grey, gp-orange, gp-white