Your account

Custom themes

Themes you or your designer build, and how an event picks one.

Three layers, and you can stop at whichever is enough

• A background color. One value in Customize, and every public page takes its colors from it.
• Colors and fonts. A whole palette at once, including colors, fonts, corner radius, shadow and motifs, as a theme manifest. That's a small text file of settings with no code in it. Ask whoever does your design, or ask us for a starting point.
• Your own templates. The actual HTML your pages are built from, written in Figh. This is web-development work. You can write them one file at a time here, or work on them as ordinary files on your own machine.

Editing a view or the layout here shows a live preview beside it, drawn from one of your account's own events, orders or tickets so it renders with real data rather than a blank page. It redraws as you type, and a compile or render error appears where the preview would be, in the same words a save would show. Assets don't get a preview.

A custom theme is the second and third of those, with a name on it. That name is what every event uses to say what it's based on.

Using your own font

The theme manifest offers a set of fonts we host. If you have a licence for a typeface of your own, and somewhere to host the files, your theme can name that instead. Whoever writes your theme file adds the family name and a link to one file per weight. You can also set it in Customize, under Look, as Your own font and Font files.

Use your own font for decides how far it goes: headings, body text, both, or nothing. It starts at nothing, so filling in the name changes no page until you switch it on. The fonts you already picked stay where they are and become the fallback, so a file that fails to load leaves your pages on a typeface you chose.

Your own font appears on your own site only. Pages on the shared address keep the hosted font. A font file is fetched from wherever it lives, so the server holding it sees who visited and when, and we keep that off the address people sign in on. The preview in Customize sits on that same address, so it shows the fallback while you work. Open your own site to see the real thing.

One thing to check yourself: which characters your files cover. The fonts we host each ship a second file for Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak, so a word in those languages does not change typeface halfway through. With your own files that is yours to get right.

Three things that follow

• Editing a theme changes every event on it.
• One theme can be your account default. It's used for your home page, your custom pages, and every event that hasn't picked a theme of its own. Open the theme you want and press Make this the account default, which is also how you change it later.
• A single event picks from its own Customize. Open the event, and the Based on block at the foot of the Look tab lists your themes. Choosing one asks whether you mean that event or every event on the same footing.

An event you've put on the Designer or Classic layout keeps Tito's default design, and your account theme doesn't reach it.