With the release of Themes 2.0 in March 2021, the Raydiant Dashboard now includes the ability to create your own custom themes for use with Flyers, Menus, and other built-in Raydiant apps. In this article, we'll show you how to create and manage your own themes!
Creating a New Theme
You can create a new theme from any saved presentation that supports themes. (For now, that means a saved Flyer, Video, Newsfeed, Menu, Clock, Calendar, Instagram, Soundtrack Your Brand, Multizone, or Toast presentation.)
On any presentation that supports themes, you'll see the theming controls:
From left to right, these icons mean:
- Edit current theme (disabled for Raydiant's default themes)
- Theme manager (edit, duplicate, and delete your custom themes)
- Theme builder
Click on the + icon, and you'll see the theme builder, with default fonts and colors applied to the presentation you're editing:
Custom fonts
Custom colors
Custom background images
Other considerations
Once you're happy with your theme, you can hit "Done" to use it with the current presentation—or, if you think you'll want to use the new theme in other presentations, hit "Add to List" to save it for future use!
Managing Your Custom Themes
Clicking the theme manager icon on any presentation allows you to easily edit, duplicate, or delete any custom themes you've created, making it super easy to create variants of your themes with minor differences depending on your needs. (Raydiant's default themes can't be removed via the theme manager, so don't worry about accidentally deleting them.)
Uploading Custom Fonts
If you're not able to find fonts that match your branding you can choose to upload custom fonts. In the Theme Manager, scroll down until you see the "Font(s) Uploader" field. Press it and select font files you wish to upload. Raydiant currently supports WOFF & TTF file types.
Make sure to include hyphens in your filenames to distinguish font names from their weights ie. LuxuriousRoman-Regular.woff rather than LuxuriousRomanRegular.woff. Omitting hyphens and uploading multiple fonts from the same family, with varying weights, will result in them showing as distinct fonts in the font selector.
"Catamaran" font files uploaded without hyphenation result in distinct fonts displayed in a theme's font selector. Each of these will have only one "Regular" weight. |
"Catamaran" font files uploaded with hyphenation result in only one "Catamaran" font displayed in a theme's font selector. Weights are selected using the weight selector when editing a theme. |
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Weight selector for the "Catamaran" font when using hyphenation.
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The following font weights are supported:
- bold
- bolditalic
- extra
- extrabold
- extrabolditalic
- extraitalic
- extralight
- italic
- light
- medium
- regular
- semi
- semibold
- semibolditalic
- semiitalic
- thin
- blackitalic
- black
- lightitalic
- extralightitalic
- mediumitalic
- thinitalic
After a font is uploaded it may take a minute or two for it to process and become available in Theme Builder's font selectors. There is currently no way to delete fonts. If you're an Enterprise user any fonts you upload will be accessible to everyone in your domain.
If you have any questions about creating themes with the new theme builder, contact us at support@raydiant.com!