@Possum -

Assuming you are just using standard Miro shapes, then unless you set Opacity to 100% in the fill colors dialog, the underlying shapes and (to a certain extent) colors will bleed through.

Frames act different as they are a layer underneath the shapes contained within them so.

Kiron

Thanks Kiron - what do you suggest instead of using the MIro standard shapes?

@Possum Why don't you want them to be true solid colors? Having less than 100% opacity will have that effect, that's the way opacity in colors work.

@Possum - For context, here is how to change a Shapes opacity:

If this still doesn’t solve your issue, please share a larger screenshot, so we can see the full context of your frames/shapes.

I don’t think that’s the problem @Robert Johnson since he explicitly writes that “the blocks are Opaque and I dont want them the true solid colour.”

The problem is, you can’t have both. Opacity is the extent to which something blocks light. In design, you can change the opacity of different objects/layers of objects so that more (or less) of the underlying image shows through. Less opacity on an object in the foreground = background object shows through. This of course affects the color/colors.

@Possum If you don’t want background colors to affect foreground colors, your foreground objects must have 100% opacity. I recommend you change the color instead of the opacity. If you for example don’t like any of the default pink colors, you can click the + icon in the bottom of the color palette and add a custom color:

Thank you so much @Henrik Ståhl that worked - ironically I tried that earlier but the new colour was still opaque… I think cos I had the Opaque setting on… didnt think to change it!! 

@Possum Glad to hear that it solved your issues!

Since you guys are all so clever… off the topic… any idea how to write text in super or subscript?? I need to have and behind my product names but cant get them in superscript 

@Possum I’m a Mac person, so I just use the Character Viewer.  

@Henrik Ståhl

he explicitly writes that “the blocks are Opaque and I dont want them the true solid colour.”

Sometimes you read the whole thing, and sometimes you don't 

@Robert Johnson Haha, even Homer nods! (According to Horace)

Fun fact: The Swedish idiom for “even Homer nods” is directly translated to English, “even the sun has spots.”

Haha, that’s pretty interesting.