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Styling Your Number Mazes: Fonts, Colors, Lines, and More

Learn how to customize the look of your Number Mazes — including fonts, line styles, start/finish markers, and path colors — to match your brand, audience, or publishing style.

🧩 Overview

Styling lets you transform a basic number maze into something that matches your theme, book layout, or brand identity. This tutorial covers the most important appearance settings in the Style tab of the Number Mazes module.

🧰 Required Module

🔧 Preparation

Before you style:

  • Make sure your puzzle setup works (ordered or unordered mode, valid path, preview visible).
  • Switch to the Style tab in the left-hand menu.

🎨 Step-by-Step Styling Options

1. Change the Font

  1. Click the Font Preview Panel to edit font settings, such as font, font color, and size.
  2. Use the preview area to test readability.

✏️ For young solvers or accessibility-focused designs, stick to clean fonts like Arial or Comic Sans.

2. Customize Line Styles

  1. Under Cell Border:
  • You can set the line weight (thickness) in pixels
  • Set the line color

➖ This module will always draw little crosses to hint at the grid cell borders, and indicating that all cells could be connected.

3. Adjust Start and Finish Markers

  1. You can toggle the Start and Finish colors.
  2. Customize:
  • Line weight (thickness)
  • Color (use bright tones like green/red or theme-consistent colors)

🟢 A bold green Start circle and a red Finish circle help solvers get oriented quickly. Note: The finish circle is only shown on the solution image

4. Style the Solution Path

  1. Switch the preview to Solution or Both.
  2. The solution path is either shown as circles (large dots) or as a line from start to finish
  3. You change the Path Color and Line Width for the answer trace. The line will always be semi transparent, so the numbers are still visible

🧠 Use a light colored path to avoid overpowering the number grid. Great for workbook-style solutions.

5. Match Visuals to Puzzle Difficulty or Theme

  • Use minimal styling and clean fonts for cognitive puzzles (senior audiences, schools)
  • Use brighter, heavier visuals for children’s activity books
  • Match colors to holiday themes, classroom seasons, or branding palettes

✅ Outcome

After this tutorial, you can:

  • Customize fonts, lines, and paths to match your publishing needs
  • Ensure visual clarity and accessibility for different audiences
  • Build visually consistent puzzle books or educational sheets

Styling turns “a puzzle” into “your puzzle.”

📚 Further Reading

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