Theme settings
You can use theme settings to make changes to your online store's typography, colors, social media links, and checkout settings. When you make changes to your theme settings, the changes apply to your entire online store.
On this page
- Logo
- Colors
- Typography
- Layout
- Animations
- Borders and shadows
- Buttons
- Variant options with swatches
- Variant pills
- Inputs
- Cards
- Content containers
- Media
- Drop-downs and pop-ups
- Drawers
- Badges
- Icons
- Brand information
- Social media
- Search behavior
- Currency format
- Cart
- Checkout
- Change theme styles
- Undo and redo changes
Logo
You can add a logo for your business to your online store. Your logo displays in the following places:
- your header across all pages
- your password page
Logo images have a maximum width of 300 px.
Customize your logo
Customize your logo width
- Click Theme settings.
- Click Logo.
- In the Desktop logo width area, toggle the slider to the pixel width you want.
Favicon
You can add a favorites icon, or a favicon, which can help to brand your online store. A favicon displays in the following places:
- your web browser tab
- your web browser's history
- icons on your desktop
- beside your online store name when it's bookmarked
Customize your favicon
Colors
You can create up to 21 unique color schemes and apply them to different sections throughout your online store. Learn more about color options, color schemes, and color gradients.
Customize your color settings
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
- Click Customize next to the theme that you want to customize.
- Click Theme settings, and then click Colors.
- In the Schemes section, click an existing scheme or click Add scheme to add a new color scheme.
- Click the color swatch to change the following content type colors:
- Background
- Background gradient
- Text
- Solid button background
- Solid button label
- Outline button
- Shadow
- To set your color, enter a hex color code or choose the color from the color picker. To set the color to transparent, delete the hex code from the text field.
- Click Save.
Typography
You can set the font style and size for the text on your online store. You can choose a system font or a custom font.
It's recommended that you use system fonts in your store. System fonts are fonts that are already installed on a user's computer. Using system fonts avoids downloading new fonts to your customer's computer, which can negatively impact your store load speed. The font that displays on your customer's computer depends on their operating system.
Customize your typography settings
Refer to Shopify's font library for a list of available fonts.
Customize your font sizes
You can set the default font sizes for your heading and body text within the Typography theme setting.
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Layout
Layout allows you to set the maximum width that your online store will display in, and set the vertical and horizontal space between sections.
Animations
Animations allow you to add movement and visual interest to your online store. You can activate a fade-in animation that reveals your store's sections on scroll, and a hover effect for your cards and buttons.
Steps:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
- Click Customize next to the theme that you want to customize.
- Click Theme settings, and then click Animations.
- Optional: To activate an animation that reveals your online store's sections on scroll, select Reveal sections on scroll.
- Optional: To add a hover effect animation to your cards and buttons, choose one of the following options from the Hover effect setting:
- Vertical lift: When a customer hovers over a card or button, the element shifts upwards.
- 3D lift: When a customer hovers over a card or button, the element shifts forward, giving it a 3D effect. This also has a subtle shine that moves across the element, giving it another layer of dimension.
- Click Save.
Borders and shadows
You can adjust the borders and shadows of some interactive content types, such as drawers, buttons, variants, or quantity inputs.
Customizable options for borders are:
- Thickness, which changes the outline of the item.
- Opacity, which sets the visibility of the item outline.
- Corner radius, which rounds the corners of your items.
Options for shadows are:
- Opacity changes the visibility of the item's shadow. A shadow opacity of 0% removes the item shadow entirely.
- The Horizontal or Vertical offset range sliders move the location of the shadow around the item.
- Use the Blur range slider to change the opacity of the item's shadow.
Buttons
You can customize the settings for call to action buttons on your online store by adding shadows, changing the spacing or opacity, and adjusting the shape of your buttons.
Customize buttons
Variant options with swatches
Swatches are a visual representation of product variants. To display swatches, you need the latest version of Dawn and category metafields connected to your variants. With Dawn, variant options can be displayed either in a drop-down or as a swatch. If you're displaying variant options as a swatch, then you can choose to have these swatches displayed as a circle, square, or none, which displays the option value as text.
Set up swatches with category metafields
- From your Shopify admin, go to Products.
- Click a product.
- In the Product organization section, enter your product’s category in the Product category field, and then select the most accurate result from the Product category list. The product category must include a Color category metafield.
- In the Variants section, click Add options like size or color.
- Click Color.
- Click the Add color field and select any default color entries from the drop-down menu.
- To add a custom color entry:
- Click Add color, and then click Add new entry.
- On the Add entry page, fill in the Label and Color fields.
- If you want a pattern instead of a color, then fill in the Image field. If you add both a color and image, then the image will be used for the swatch.
- Select a Base color and Base pattern.
- Click Save.
- Click Save to save your product.
Customize swatches in Dawn
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
- Make sure you have the latest version of Dawn installed, then click Customize.
- Navigate to the product that you added color options to.
- Optional: To customize swatches, click the Variant picker block. You can change the display of the swatches by choosing between Circle, Square, or None.
- Click Save to save the theme.
Variant pills
Variant pills allow you to display the variants of a product on a product page or a featured product section. Customers can select the desired variant to add the product to their cart without needing to change product pages.
Customize variant pills
Inputs
Inputs are interactive areas that require customer input, for example, a quantity selector, an email signup form, or cart notes. You can adjust the appearance of your online store inputs in theme settings.
Customize inputs
Cards
Product cards, collection cards, and blog cards settings allow you to customize the style of each type of separate area which are displayed in sections. You can change the color, alignment, image padding, borders, and shadows of these three types of section cards.
Customize cards
Content containers
Containers are the text portion of content sections, for example, the text box on a slideshow, an image banner, or the columns in multicolumn sections. You can customize the appearance of content containers for your online store.
Customize content containers
Media
Media is the visual component of sections, for example, product media or the image in Image with Text sections. You can add borders and shadows to your media.
Customize media
Drop-downs and pop-ups
Adjust the appearance of navigation drop-downs, pop-up modals, and cart pop-ups.
Customize drop-downs and pop-ups
Drawers
Drawers are hidden, interactive containers that display when tapped or clicked, for example, a collapsible navigation menu or filter options.
Customize drawers
Badges
Sale and Sold out badges are automatically added to your product images when the price drops, or when the inventory count reaches 0. You can adjust the position, shape, and color of your badges.
Page and Blog badges display in relevant search results. You can customize the position and shape of these badges, but not the color.
Customize badges
Icons
Icons are small images that can be added to certain sections or blocks. Set the color scheme for your icons in Theme settings.
Customize icons
Brand information
You can include information about your brand. You can add the brand information block in your footer.
Customize your brand information
Social media
You can add social sharing buttons for your products and blog posts, and links to your social media accounts. Links to your social media accounts display in the footer of your online store.
Customize your social media settings
Search behavior
Your online store includes predictive search, which displays suggestions when customers start typing into the search field. Search suggestions can help customers articulate and refine their search queries, and provide new ways for them to explore an online store. They can also let customers quickly browse matches without having to leave their current page to view a separate list of search results.
You can customize the following settings for search:
- Enable search suggestions - Activate or deactivate search suggestions.
- Show product vendor - Display or hide product vendors in search suggestions.
- Show product price - Display or hide product prices in search suggestions.
Change search input settings
To learn more about how search suggestions work, refer to Predictive search.
Currency format
You can choose to have product, cart, and checkout prices always display currency codes.
Cart
You can change the style of the cart on your online store. When a customer adds a product from your store to their cart, the cart can be displayed as a drawer, a page, or a pop-up notification. To keep the customer on the product page, use the drawer or pop-up notification option. To take the customer to the cart page, use the page option. When the customer's cart is empty, you can display a featured collection on the cart drawer.
Steps:
If you have the cart type set to Drawer, then you can display a collection in the cart drawer. The selected collection only displays when the cart is empty.
To add a collection to the empty cart drawer, click Select collection. After a collection has been selected, click Change to select a different collection or remove the collection from the cart drawer. You can also click Create collection to create a new collection. This button takes you out of theme settings and to the Collections page of your Shopify admin.
Checkout
This section lets you customize your store's checkout. Refer to Shopify checkout for more information about your store's checkout page.
Change theme styles
A theme style is a collection of settings chosen by a theme designer. You can apply a theme style to your store to give it a polished look and feel. All themes have a theme style applied by default. When you customize a theme, you replace the theme style settings with your own. When you apply a theme style to your theme, you change your current settings, such as colors and typography.
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Undo and redo changes
The Undo button reverses your most recent change, and the Redo button adds back a change that you undid. Clicking the Undo button more than once will continue to undo your work, one change at a time. The Undo and Redo buttons are located in the theme editor toolbar.
Click the Undo button to reverse the following changes:
- adding, reordering, and deleting sections
- applying colors, fonts, and other settings, on the Theme settings tab
- resetting a theme style.