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Palo Alto 4.2
Palo Alto 4.2
  • Palo Alto Theme Documentation
  • Changelog
    • The new experience
    • What's new in 4.2
  • Header
    • Announcement bar
    • Transparent header
    • Mega Menu
    • Highlighted link
    • Logo
  • Sections
    • Target Settings
    • How to use sections
    • Recommended Image Sizes
    • Product sections
    • Image sections
    • Text sections
    • Custom sections
  • Upsell
    • Upsell
  • Theme Settings
    • Theme Settings Intro
    • Colors
    • Typography
    • Appearance
    • Product Grid
    • Quick Shop
    • Cart
    • Loading Icon
    • Checkout
    • Theme style
  • Products
    • Using the new Palo Alto Product Pages
    • Creating new Product page templates
    • Pre-order using metafields
    • Theme blocks
    • Swatches
    • Product ratings
  • Collections
    • Using the new Palo Alto Collection Pages
    • Filtering options
    • Sub-collections
    • Collection pages promo
    • Cutline
    • Badges
  • Popups
    • Popups
    • Popup Behavior
    • How to change the "You agree to..." text
  • Footer
    • Footer
    • How to remove the Shopify credit
  • Blogs
    • Using the new Palo Alto Blog Pages
    • Creating new Blog page templates
  • Pages
    • Using the new Palo Alto Pages
  • Updates
    • Checking your theme version
    • Downloading the latest version
    • Updating your theme
  • Support
    • Contacting support
    • Sharing a preview link
  • Custom
    • How to make CSS customizations
    • How to add Custom Fonts
    • Adding Custom Icons
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  • Customize the trigger words
  • Colors
  • Customizing
  • Add custom color names and values to swatches.json
  • Add custom images to the assets folder
  • Disabling swatches
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  1. Products

Swatches

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Palo Alto will display swatches for color variants in collection filtering and the product form on product pages.

Palo Alto will detect if your variant label is Color or Colour and automatically display swatches

Customize the trigger words

To customize the trigger words which activate swatches, use the Language Editor (Edit languages) and add or modify the values:

You can add more trigger words that will help use swatches for other options.

The result is the same and you can use different custom swatches as well.

Colors

Customizing

Add custom color names and values to swatches.json

Use the swatches.json file located in the Assets folder to add your own custom names and HEX color values:

Add custom images to the assets folder

With Palo Alto, you can upload your own custom swatch images and display them on product and collection pages:

How to:

  • Create a small square image (60x60 or 100x100 for best results)

  • Upload to the Assets folder

  • Modify swatches.json to include your color name and image

Disabling swatches

Swatches can be toggled on and off in the Theme settings under Product Grid:

Palo Alto can easily detect simple color names and convert them to swatches. There are a total of 140 color names Palo Alto can detect, all other more complex names will be represented by a default grey color swatch. You can upload your own custom color names and graphics as described below. Here is a full list of color names that will automatically be converted to swatches:

If your products have color names other than the listed colors in the , you can add your own color names and values or upload images to the Assets folder:

To find additional HEX color codes, visit:

Color names list
Color names list
https://colorhunt.co
Collection filtering
Product form, default product template
Change trigger words by using the Language Editor
Language Editor
Product Options
Product Page View