Color swatches

A guide to customize the store's products color swatches

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✨ This tutorial is applied for Zest version 8.3.0 and older ✨

By displaying color swatches on your variant picker, you allow customers to quickly view and select the available color options. This creates a more intuitive and engaging shopping experience, as customers can immediately see how each color looks and feels in context with the product.

Source: Demo Flairy

How to enable Color swatches

Steps

1. In the theme editor (Customize), click Theme settings

2. Locate Color swatches

3. Make necessary changes

4. Save

You can enable/disable color swatches by ticking/unticking the checkbox:

To enable swatches, your Picker type must be Buttons.

👉 The picker type of each feature can be set in the feature settings.

• Product information

• Featured product

• Product quick view

Color swatch trigger

Define which is the color option by inserting your relevant product Option names. Separate them by a comma.

You can select the Color swatch shape as Circle/Square.

Circle

Square

Variant picker

Select the Swatch style you want for your Variant pickers:

• Custom colors
• Shopify swatches
• Variant image.

This applies wherever a variant can be selected.

You can choose the swatch styles for the product form (in the Product page, Featured product section, and the Quickview) and the Product cards separately.

Custom colors

If you want to use Custom colors as your Swatch style, choose the suitable HEX color codes and add them to the provided box.

Note:

• Separate items with a comma.

• Write the color name from the product option and separate options with the color HEX value.

• All texts are in lowercase.

Custom images:

Besides custom colors, you can also add color swatches to your product and collection pages using images:

1. Go to Shopify admin > Content > Files.

2. Click Upload files.

3. Naming your swatch files:

• Orange swatches would need to be named orange.png (capitals become lowercase).

• Light blue swatches would need to be named light-blue.png (capitals become lowercase, spaces and other special characters become hyphens).

Here are some sample images for color swatches: light blue, cyan.

🚨 Note: .jpg files will not be shown, you must use .png

👉 Watch our tutorial.

Shopify swatches

Shopify swatches for your color swatches is available from ⭐ Zest version 8.4.0 and above ⭐

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Native Shopify swatches allow you to manage your swatches directly from Shopify admin.

Native color swatches leverage Shopify categories to work.

For more information on setting up native color swatches, please check the Shopify documentation.

Variant image

If you select the Variant image as your Swatch style, make sure you have associated your product variants with their images in Shopify Products > Variants.