Themes, colours and logos

A theme is the set of colours and fonts your designs use. Your organisation has a theme, and each club has its own. Logos belong to the organisation and are shared by every club.

Where each theme is used

• Each club's pages, assets, documents and emails use that club's theme.
• When you create a club, it gets a copy of your organisation's theme as it is at that moment. Later changes to the organisation's theme do not reach clubs that already exist. To change an existing club's colours or fonts, change the club's theme.
• Designs that belong to the organisation rather than a club use the organisation's theme.

Your organisation's branding

1. In the sidebar, select Settings.
2. Select the Branding tab.

The tab has four panels: Logo, Named logos, Colors and Theme. You first set the logo, colours and theme in the welcome journey.

Logo

The Logo panel holds your main logo. It is the logo designs show unless they choose a named logo.

1. In Logo, select Edit.
2. Choose the file under Logo.
3. Select Save changes.

Until you add one, the panel warns "Please add your organisation's logo".

Named logos

Named logos are extra versions of your logo, for example a white one for dark backgrounds. A design's logo setting offers Main logo and then each named logo by name.

1. In Named logos, select Add logo.
2. Fill in:
   • File: a PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF or SVG image, no larger than 5000 pixels wide or tall.
   • Name: "The name a design uses to show this logo". Each named logo needs a different name. If the name is taken, you see "Name is being used for another logo".
   • Alt text: "Describes the logo for someone using a screen reader". Required.
3. Select Add logo.

To change or delete one, point at its row and select Edit. Change the fields and select Save changes, or select Delete. The confirmation says "Are you sure? Designs that use this logo will show the Main logo instead." Select Delete logo.

With no named logos, the panel says "No named logos were found."

Colors

The Colors panel shows the theme's palette: every colour the theme can use.

• Add a colour: select the + swatch. Type a name for the colour in the text box (it has no label), pick the colour with the swatch beside it, and select Add.
• Change a colour: select its swatch, change it, and select Save.
• Delete a colour: select its swatch, then Delete, and confirm with Delete.

You can't delete a colour the theme is using for one of its roles. You see "This color can't be deleted because it is being used as a theme color." Select Back, give that role another colour in Theme, then delete it.

Theme

The Theme panel says which palette colour and which font does each job. A preview on the right shows a sample club card in your theme, with your main logo.

To change one, select its row, choose a new value, and select Save.

Colors

• Primary: "Used for elements that should stand out, like primary action buttons."
• Secondary: "Used for elements that need some attention, like progress bars."
• Surface: "Used as the background for pages, emails and documents."

Ink

• General: "Used for general text in pages, emails and documents."
• Accent: "Used for general text needing emphasis, like links."
• Primary: "Used for text that appears on the selected primary color."
• Secondary: "Used for text that appears on the selected secondary color."

Accent, Primary and Secondary ink can be set to Automatic.

Fonts

• Primary: "Used for general text, like paragraphs and other similar content."
• Secondary: "Used for headings and titles."

You can choose from 47 fonts, listed by name.

A club's theme

1. Open the club and select Settings.
2. Select the Branding tab.

The club's Branding tab has the same Colors and Theme panels, for the club's own theme. Changes here affect only this club's designs. There is no logo panel here: clubs use the organisation's logos.

The Theme panel in the designer

In the designer, on a draft, Theme (T) opens the theme behind the design you are working on, with Palette, Colors, Ink and Fonts. Changes there are changes to the theme itself, not to this one design.

For a club's designs, the panel warns: "You're working with a club-level theme. Changes here will affect other club designs, including pages, assets, documents and emails."

The donation receipt and free-form documents open in the designer. See Documents and receipts. The page builder and the asset builder have no Theme panel; use the club's Branding tab instead.