Adding branding (colors & fonts) to your account

Qwilr's Brand Editor lets you add your own set of brand colors and fonts, which will apply to all your team's pages.

In this article, we'll cover account-wide branding. If you want to modify the style of an individual block or Qwilr Page, check out our styling tools. If this is your first time accessing Qwilr, we've got you. If you're looking to update your Branding in an existing account, skip to Brand Colours below. (Your Fonts will always be set up in Settings). 

Note: Account admins can only access. These settings are only available to account admins.

Branding in New Accounts

The first time you access Qwilr in a brand new account, you'll be prompted to "Make Qwilr Yours". Which is a great and easy way to set up your branding, colors, and subdomain. It's easily done in one step and one screen! Follow the directions as they are presented to you and it's quite literally as easy as that! 

Note: We ask you to upload your Logo on this screen. As of right now, this adds your logo to the new Get Started Qwilr Page that will be present in your account if you go through this onboarding flow. We upload this to your Qwilr Image Library so that you can use it when creating content - but it won't be used anywhere else unless you choose to use it! 

Branding Setup for Existing Accounts

To set up your brand colors and fonts, head to the top right corner of the Qwilr dashboard. Click on your initials and choose Brand Setup.

Brand colors

The colors you select in Brand Setup will apply to  all pages in your account. You can have up to 7 brand colors. If your account is established, please be aware changing these will update all your existing Qwilr Pages. 

How brand colors apply to text

You can place your brand colors anywhere in a page, but the first two colors you set will show up as the default colors for specific elements. If there are colors you use a lot in your company collateral, setting these first can save you a lot of time.

First brand color in your set is the default for:

• Headings (H1)
• Links

Second brand color in your set is the default for:

• Subheadings (H2)

To change any of your brand colors, click on a circle to bring up the edit menu.

Choose a color from the menu or paste in your own hex color code. Then click Update Color.

Here are some useful tools for finding hex color codes:

• http://www.colorpicker.com/
• http://html-color-codes.info/colors-from-image/

If you've already created some Qwilr Pages in your account, you'll see a warning message letting you know that the colors in these pages will be changing to the new default you've set. 

Click Update Color to save the change and update the pages.

Adding more Brand Colors

To expand your brand colors, click on the circle with a + sign. Choose a color from the menu or paste in a hex color code, then click Add Color.

When you're done adjusting colors, click  Update Brand to save the changes.

Using your Brand Colors

Anywhere you see the paint roller icon, that's a spot where you can use your brand colors. Click on it to bring up the menu. Depending on the case, Qwilr will add black, white, and silver to the color menu.

Note: There may be cases where Qwilr limits the selection of available Brand Colors in a block. This will only happen when a particular color would affect readability.

Note: In addition to your 7 Brand Colors, you can also add any hex color code to a block as a custom background color.

Brand Fonts

You'll choose a set of 3 fonts, and these will apply to all pages in your account:

• Heading (H1) font
• Subheading (H2) font
• Body text font

To change any of these fonts, click the Change button.

You'll have three options:

• Select a Google font
• Select an Adobe font
• Upload a custom font

Note: Adobe (Typekit) fonts are available on all plans. Custom fonts are available on our Enterprise plan. 

Using a single-brand font

Once you've selected a brand font for H1, you can set it as the font for all text.  Enable the switch as shown below.

When you're done setting fonts, click  Update Brand to save the changes.

That's it! Your branding is now set up, and all your pages will have a consistent look that matches your Brand Style.

Team Styling Permissions

Note: This feature is available only on our Enterprise plan.

Once you've set up your Brand Colors and fonts, you can decide how much or little access the Creator users on your team will have to styling controls. 

In the Team Permissions section, you can use the switches to enable or disable styling tools your team can access in Qwilr Pages. 

You can place controls on two types of styling:

• Block Style controls: these are styling changes made to whole blocks. Your team would access these by clicking the Block Style icon in any block.

• Content style controls: these are styling changes you'd make after highlighting one element of a block. The same styling icon will appear. Clicking this brings up more styling options.

As you change the permission settings, you'll see a preview of what your team's Block Style menu will look like.

If you'd prefer your team not edit any styling in the pages they create, disable both the  Edit block styles and Edit content styles switches. All settings will be disabled and the Block Style menu won't appear.

What's Next:

Use your brand colors to style parts of your Qwilr Page.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the support team at [email protected].