Theme settings — Inkwell docs

Open the theme editor and click the gear icon (Theme settings). The groups below appear in this order.

Colors

Color palette sets the storefront's fourteen colors at once:

Palette	Page	Sheets	Blotter band	Accent ink	Cover band	Sticky note	Feels like
Paper (default)	Natural paper `#f4f1ea`	Bright sheet `#fffdf8`	Blue-grey `#e5e8ee`	Royal-blue ink `#2c40a6`	Notebook blue-black `#1b2049`	Marigold `#f5cd5a`	Planners and printables (the Inkwell preset)
Ink	Ink navy `#141c37`	`#1a2341`	`#222c4d`	Marigold `#f2b33d`	`#0c1229`	`#f6d886`	Premium planner brands and ebook authors. A dark palette.
Darkroom	Darkroom black `#121011`	`#1b1819`	`#252122`	Safelight red-orange `#ff5b37`	Safelight red-black `#2c0d09`	Amber `#ffc073`	Photo presets and LUTs (the Shutter preset). A dark palette.
Pop	White `#ffffff`	White `#ffffff`	Warm grey `#f4f2ed`	Tangerine `#e4570f`	Indigo `#1f1c40`	Lemon `#ffd84a`	Templates and brand kits (the Studio preset)

All four meet WCAG AA contrast for text (4.5:1) and controls (3:1) on every background the theme uses, including the cover band. In Pop, text set in the accent color (links, the Instant download label) is mixed a little toward the ink, so the tangerine stays readable on white; buttons keep the pure tangerine.

Below the palette, each color can be set on its own. A color you set overrides the palette until you clear it (the field then reads "From palette"). The groups and what each color paints in Inkwell:

Group	Color	What it paints
Page	Page background	The page and the header
Page	Body text	Body copy, option values and the values in The details
Sheets, blotter and headings	Sheets and panels	The sheets: product cards, the product gallery, license cards, preview pages, index cards, drawers, dialogs, the mega menu and fields
Sheets, blotter and headings	Blotter band	The pale band behind hero art, What's inside, the FAQ and any section set to Blotter, and disabled buttons
Sheets, blotter and headings	Headings, names and prices	Headings, product names, the wordmark, navigation and prices; also the border of secondary buttons and the fill of selected option pills
Secondary text	Secondary text	Introductions, helper text, labels in The details, license summaries, page-count chips, page numbers under previews and the Sold out badge
Secondary text	Faint text	Compare-at prices, placeholders, a license's "not allowed" lines, and sold-out option values and license cards
Controls and accent	Control borders	The borders of fields, selects, option pills, license cards, checkboxes and steppers. Keep it at 3:1 or more against the page, sheets and blotter.
Controls and accent	Accent ink	Primary buttons, text links, focus rings, the selected license card's ring, ticks in lists, rating stars and the cart count
Controls and accent	Text on accent	Labels on primary buttons and the cart count
Controls and accent	Sale and errors	Sale prices and the Save badge, and error messages
Cover band and sticky note	Cover band	The deep band of the announcement bar, the freebie section, the footer and any section set to Cover
Cover band and sticky note	Text on the cover band	Text and button fills on the cover band (its secondary text and borders are mixed from it)
Cover band and sticky note	Sticky note	The New, Free and Bestseller badges, the cart's delivery note, the "Most popular" tag on a license, and on the cover band its links, kickers and focus ring

Note

Overriding a color can lower contrast. Check text on your new color with a contrast checker before you publish.

Most sections also have a Background setting: Page (the page color), Blotter (the blotter band, behind the FAQ and What's inside in the presets) or Cover (the deep band, with light text and light buttons). Everything inside a band, including buttons, fields and focus rings, switches with it.

Typography

Setting	Default	Notes
Heading font	Libre Baskerville	Headings, product names, the text logo, and page numbers ("Page 18 of 120") and quotes in italic. The theme loads the face you pick and its italic.
Body font	Proza Libre	Body copy, navigation, buttons, prices, badges and labels. The theme loads regular, semibold and italic.
Base text size	16px (14 to 18)	Scales all text

The presets use Libre Baskerville (Inkwell), Manuale (Shutter) and Besley (Studio) for headings, all with Proza Libre. Any font in Shopify's font library works. Inkwell never fakes a bold or italic the font doesn't have, and all text is in sentence case: the theme never turns text into capitals. Italicize a word in a heading and it shows in the heading italic, in the same color.

Layout

Setting	Default	What it does
Page width	Medium	Narrow, Medium or Wide
Page margin	64px (20 to 80)	Space at the left and right of the page on large screens (1200px and wider). Tablets use at most 40px and phones 20px.

Show back-to-top button (on): a button that appears after shoppers scroll down one screen. Position: Left (default) or Right; the Shutter preset uses Right. Pick the side opposite your chat button. It is mirrored for right-to-left languages.
Brand: Use a custom logo (off: the shop name shows as a text wordmark in the heading font), Logo, Logo width (180px, 80 to 320, with a custom logo) and Favicon (32 x 32px recommended).
Motion: Reveal sections on scroll (off): sections fade up once as they scroll into view. Cards lift, corners fold and drawers glide whatever this says. Every effect holds still for visitors who ask their device for reduced motion.

Commerce

Setting	Default	What it does
Free dispatch over	0	Only for stores that also ship physical items. Your real free-shipping threshold, in your store's currency. Above 0, the buy box of a product that ships adds "Free shipping over $50.", and a cart that holds something to ship shows "Add $12.00 more for free shipping." and then "Your order ships free." They only show to customers shopping in your store's currency, and never for downloads. Leave it at 0 if you sell only files.
Show currency code	Off	Prints the currency code beside every price

Product cards

Every product card is a sheet: the photo inset on a bright card with a soft paper shadow and a small folded corner, up to two badges on the photo, then the product name in the heading font, a row of chips (Instant download and the page count, "120 pages"), the price and the rating stars. On devices with a mouse, hovering the card lifts the sheet and turns the corner a little further.

Setting	Default	What it does
Product image shape	Portrait 4:5	Portrait 4:5, Square or Landscape 4:3
Show quick view button	Off	Opens the product's media, options and buy buttons in a panel without leaving the page
Show quick add button	Off	Products without options go straight to the cart. Products with options (such as a License option), a required subscription plan or a gift card recipient open quick view.
Show swatches	Off	Shows the values of the first option that has Shopify swatches, such as Color. Swatches before "+" count: 5 (2 to 8).
Show second image on hover	Off	On devices with a mouse, shows the product's second image while the card is hovered or focused. Products with one image don't change. Preview pages tagged `#inside` are never used (chapter 9).
New badge for new products	21d (0 to 90)	Days after a product is published that it shows the New badge. Products tagged `new` always show it; 0 uses the tag only.
Show compare checkbox	Off	Shoppers tick up to 3 products and see them side by side on the comparison page. Stays hidden until a page using the `page.compare` template is chosen as the Comparison page (chapter 4).
Comparison page	Empty	The page with the `page.compare` template

A card shows at most two badges on its photo, in this order: Save 20% (a compare-at price above the price), then one of Free (the product's price is 0), Bestseller (tagged bestseller) or New (tagged new, or newly published), then Sold out if there's room. The cards in the presets show the Instant download badge and the page count, which come from the Digital products settings below.

Digital products

The settings behind Inkwell's download features, each explained in its chapter.

Setting	Default	What it does
Treat all products as digital	Off	Shows the Instant download badge and the delivery note on every product, whatever its shipping setting. Turn it on if you only sell downloads. With it off, a product counts as a download when none of its variants needs shipping (chapter 8).
Instant download on product cards	On	The Instant download badge in the card's chip row, on downloads only
Page count on product cards	On	The "120 pages" chip, from the `custom.page_count` metafield (chapter 7)
Hide quantity for digital products	On	Hides the quantity selector in the buy box for downloads, and the stepper on a download's cart line while its quantity is 1. A file is bought once.
License option names	License, Licence	Options with these names show as license cards instead of pills. Separate names with commas; capitals don't matter (chapter 10).
Delivery note in the cart	"Your files arrive by email and on your order page right after checkout"	A sticky note in the cart drawer and on the cart page when the cart holds a download. Leave it blank to hide it.
Folded corner on cards	On	The folded top corner on cards, the gallery, license cards and the flip-through. Off gives every sheet four square corners.
Paper details	On	Washi tape, sticky notes and pen notes in the hero and the freebie section. Off removes them all; the text you typed for them doesn't show.

Customer account menu: links in the header's account panel. Leave it empty to use the menu Shopify creates for customer accounts.
Social media: Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Threads. Each link you add shows as an icon in the footer.