If you are a SharePoint administrator looking to quickly apply some basic branding to a site-collection in your SharePoint 2013 environment then you've come to the right spot. Before we begin I assume you have a basic understanding of what Composed Looks are, and perhaps you spent some time playing around with this concept in SharePoint 2013. If not, then don't worry. Here is a basic primer: Composed Look is basically a package which contains elements used for controlling the overall look and feel of a SharePoint site. This includes but not limited to Colors, Fonts, Background Image, CSS files, and Master Page files. Once created, Composed Look can be packaged by using the Design Manager feature, or we can use PowerShell to apply it across one or multiple site collections. NOTE: In this post we will be focusing on creating a composed look from an .spcolor file then using PowerShell to apply the design to a site-site collection of our choice. We will not
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