The theme is the look of your whole website: its colours, its fonts and the style of its buttons. You set it once, and every page follows it. Change a colour in the theme and it changes on the home page, the portfolio, the contact page and every other page at the same time.

This guide shows you where the theme lives, how to change colours and fonts, how to try a complete new look in one click, and how to put your changes online.

Open the theme

Open your site in the editor.
In the left bar, click Theme (the palette icon, near the bottom).
The theme panel opens next to the page. It has three tabs: Colours, Type and Style.

The page stays visible on the right. Every change you make in the panel shows on it straight away, so you can judge it before you keep it.

Change the colours

Open the Colours tab.
Under Color presets, click a palette, for example Minimal, Elegant or Nature. Each card shows its five colours in a strip.
Look at the page: backgrounds, texts and buttons take the new colours. The palette in use has a small tick.

Want your own colours? Open Custom colors. There are five, and each one has a job:

Background — the colour behind your pages.
Text — the colour of titles and paragraphs.
Primary — buttons and the main highlights.
Secondary and Accent — details, lines and small touches.

Click a coloured square to pick a colour, or type its code (like #1A1A1A) in the box next to it. Press Advanced for more ways to pick each colour. Once your colours no longer match a palette, Color presets shows the label Custom.

Change the fonts

Open the Type tab.
Under Font pairings, click a pair: a font for titles and one for paragraphs that look good together, like Classic Serif or Modern Sans.
All the titles and texts of your site switch to the new fonts.

To choose the two fonts yourself, open Choose fonts and pick a Heading Font and a Body Font. Below them you'll find more: Custom fonts to upload your own font files, and Type scale to change the size of titles (H1 to H4) and of the body text.

Try a complete theme

A palette changes only the colours. A complete theme changes the whole character of the site in one go: colours, fonts, text sizes, buttons and the style of the blocks.

Open the Style tab. Complete themes is the first section.
Each card is a small preview of the theme: a title, a line of text and a button in its own fonts and colours. Click the one you like.
The window Apply the “name” theme? reminds you what changes. Your texts, photos and pages stay as they are.
Press Apply theme. The page takes the new look.

Tip: try a few complete themes to find the right mood, then fine-tune colours and fonts in the other tabs. Applying a complete theme replaces your colours and fonts, so pick the theme first and adjust after.

Fine-tune the style

Further down the Style tab you'll find the details:

Approach — a few dials for the whole site: Corners, Density (how much space around things), Title scale, Motion, Photo ratio, Photo on hover and Photo overlay.
Buttons — Button colours, Button text, Button shape and spacing and Button border, for every button of the site.
Custom cursor, Page loader and Smooth scroll — small effects for visitors. You can leave them as they are.
My presets — happy with your look? Press Save Current, give it a name and save it. You can go back to it later with one click.

One theme for every page

The theme is shared by all the pages of your site, so you never have to change colours page by page. Blocks follow it too: a new block takes the theme's colours and fonts as soon as you add it.

If you change the colours of a single block from its options, that block stops following the theme and its window says Customised. Press Reset to theme style to make it follow the theme again. See Edit text, photos and buttons.

Put your changes online

Theme changes are a draft, like page changes: you see them in the editor, visitors don't yet.

While the theme panel is open, the button at the top right of the editor becomes Publish settings. It's highlighted when there are changes waiting.
Press it. The message Settings published confirms that the changes are live on every page.

Not ready yet? Press Save to keep the draft. A small dot on the Theme icon in the left bar reminds you that some changes aren't published yet. Publishing any page also publishes your latest theme. See Publish your website.

Good to know

Keep it simple. One background, one text colour and one strong colour for buttons are enough for most photography sites. Let your photos bring the colour.
Check the contrast. Light grey text on a white background is hard to read, especially on a phone.
Two fonts at most. One for titles, one for text. The font pairings are made to work together.
Look at a few pages before you publish. A colour that looks good on the home page should also work on your gallery and contact pages.