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# Add a cover page to a dashboard and choose its style

> Add a cover page to a Mammoth dashboard with a headline, hero metric and page links, pick its type, backdrop, colour and font, or remove it.
>
> Applies to: Roles: Anyone with edit access to the board. Where: Dashboard editor › Add › Page › Cover

A cover page is an optional title page that opens the dashboard, with a headline, the period and links to every other page. You add it from **Add** → **Page** in the [dashboard editor](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/editor/) and style it on the canvas; anyone with edit access to the board can change it.

## Add a cover page to a dashboard

A cover is a title page with a headline, a period and record-count line, an optional hero metric, and one card for each other page. Clicking a card jumps to that page. Covers carry no filters.

1. Click **Add** in the editor header, then **Page**.
2. Choose **Cover** ("Open with a cover").
3. Click **Create page**.

The cover goes first, and **Edit cover** opens in the right panel. To edit it later, click the cover.

In the Doc and Slides formats the cover is part of the document rather than a page. Click it to edit it. See [Docs](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/docs-and-slides/).

## Write the cover title, subtitle and hero metric

**Edit cover** ends with **Cancel** and **Save changes**. The content options are:

| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Title** | The headline. Pre-filled with what the cover shows now. |
| **Subtitle** | Defaults to the period and record count. Hidden for the Metric type. |
| **Description** | What this board covers, and what it doesn't. |
| **Hero metric** | Metric type only. **Auto · top metric**, or any measure. |

## Pick a cover type: Standard, Metric or Masthead

**Type** sets the layout of the cover:

- **Standard**
- **Metric**: the cover leads with the hero metric instead of a subtitle. Not offered for Slides.
- **Masthead**

## Choose a cover backdrop and colour

**Backdrop** has 16 options on dashboards and docs: **None**, **Plain**, **Dots**, **Waves**, **Mesh**, **Grid**, **Low-poly**, **Arcs**, **Bands**, **Diagonal**, **Line**, **Area**, **Bars**, **Scatter**, **Gradient** and **Image**. **None** draws no cover surface and hides **Color** and every option below it.

Slides have no **None**. They add **Auto**, **Trend**, **Ranking** and **Composition**, drawn from the board's own data. With **Auto**, a hint names what it is drawing.

**Color** isn't shown for Image or None. Its choices are **Default**, **Brand**, **Brand light**, **Brand dark**, **Paper**, then Teal, Indigo, Coral, Slate, Amber, Purple, Rose and Forest, and **Custom color** to pick any colour.

With the **Image** backdrop, use **Upload image** (or **Replace image**) and **Remove**. The same **Image strength** slider as the title band sets how strong the image is.

## Set the cover stat, ornament, font and size

| Option | Choices | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Stat** | **None**, **Inline**, **Block**, **Badge** | Shows the headline metric on the cover: in the meta line, as a block under the title, or in a badge. Disabled for the Metric type, which already leads with it. |
| **Ornament** | **None**, **Rule**, **Bar**, **Divider** | Adds a rule, bar or divider as decoration. |
| **Font** | **Modern**, **Editorial** | The cover's typeface. |
| **Height** | S, M, L | How tall the cover is. |
| **Width** | **Inset**, **Full-bleed** | Inset keeps the cover in a boxed card. Full-bleed spans edge to edge with no card. |
| **Alignment** | **Left**, **Center** | Where the title block sits. |

For example, for a cover that leads with this quarter's revenue, set **Type** to **Metric**, **Hero metric** to Revenue, and **Backdrop** to **Gradient** with **Brand** colour.



## Remove a cover page from a dashboard

The cover panel has no remove button. On a dashboard, the cover is a page, so you delete it like any page:

1. In the editor, click the **Manage pages** pencil after the last page tab.
2. Click **Delete** (the bin) on the cover's row.
3. The row shows an **Undo** strip for a few seconds. Leave it to confirm the delete.

See [Manage dashboard pages](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/pages/#rename-duplicate-reorder-or-delete-dashboard-pages). In the Doc and Slides formats the cover isn't a page, so you can't delete it. In a doc, setting **Backdrop** to **None** drops the cover surface.

## Limits

- A dashboard has one cover. **Cover** leaves the page list once one exists.
- **Cover** is only offered when the board has at least one content page, and not on Motion boards.

## Related

- [Title band](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/title-band-and-cover/): the header on every page.
- [Pages and navigation](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/pages/): add, reorder and delete pages, including the cover.
- [Docs](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/docs-and-slides/): how covers work in the Doc and Slides formats.
- [Themes](https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/themes/): the brand colours the cover uses.

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Source: https://mammoth.io/docs/learn/dashboards/cover-page.md · Updated: 2026-11-08