Colors
Theme settings
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You can change the Colors of elements across your store, including general colors, header colors, footer colors, and product colors.
Theme colors apply to all sections and pages by default. You can apply specific colors to most sections and blocks in the theme editor. Colors selected for sections and blocks will override theme colors.
In the theme editor, click the Theme settings icon, then click to open the Colors tab.
Tip | We recommend using WebAIM's contrast checker when matching colors to make sure your text is clear and readable for everyone.
General
The General colors have the following settings:
Text
The color of text store-wide.
Background
The background on all pages including the home page. Appears in sections that have no background color set.
Borders
The line color of borders between sections of a page, and around any buttons and form inputs that have border lines.
Input
The color of input fields – like drop-down menus, email fields, add/remove quantity boxes, and so on.
Input text
The color of text inside input fields.
Accent / Button background
Used for text links, buttons, and the header message.
Button text
The color of button text.
Secondary button background
Secondary buttons appear when there are two customer actions and there is one less important than the other.
Specifically, see the Update cart button on the cart page (next to the primary Check out button), and the the Add to cart button on product pages (next to the primary But it now button).
Secondary button text
The color of secondary button text on the site.
Sale badge
The sale badge appears when you have set the Compare at price for a product in your Shopify dashboard’s Products section.
Success message
The background color of messages that appear to customers when a form has been submitted.
Error message
Once in a while, customers may run into a short error message. For example, if they try to create an account and enter an invalid email:
Header colors
The Header colors have the following settings:
Background
Change the background color of the header.
When you use the Transparent header feature, note that this color is displayed only some of the time.
Text
Change the color of any text or icons that appear in the header. This includes the menu icon (☰) as shown on mobile.
Note that if you have not uploaded a logo, the text color is applied to your store name as well.
Border
Change the color of border line at the bottom of the header.
Icon
The color of the search, profile and cart icons in the header. On mobile devices, this color is also used for the main menu (☰) icon.
Alternate section colors
The contrast color settings affect content sections all over your store, specifically when the Outline section style is enabled.
Text
The text color for inside content sections.
Background
The contrast background is displayed in a content section. It should contrast your global background color.
Border
If there is a border or line within a content section, it uses the contrast border color setting.
Input
The color of input fields – like drop-down menus, email fields, add/remove quantity boxes, and so on.
Input text
The color of text inside input fields in contrast sections.
Navigation
The navigation color settings only affect the colors in your drop-down navigation menus.
Text
The color of text and links in the mega navigation menu.
Background
The background color of the mega navigation menu.
Border
The color of the borders between sub-menus in the mega navigation menu.
Feature
The background color that appears behind the navigation menu’s feature image, heading and subheading.
Drawers
Some menus open up in drawers. They pop open from the left or right side of the screen. On mobile devices, navigation menus, the quick cart, collection sorting and collection filtering menus open up in drawers.
Text
The color of text and links in the drawers.
Background
The background color of drawers. We recommend using a color that contrasts with your store background color.
Border
The color of borders and lines within the drawers.
Footer
The Footer colors have the following settings:
Background
Change the dominant background color of the footer.
Text
Change the text color of the footer.
Border
Change the line color of the borders of the footer. This setting effects border lines as well as input borders, like the newsletter signup form.
Input
The color of input fields – like drop-down menus, email fields, add/remove quantity boxes, and so on.
Input text
The color of text inside input fields.
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