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Themes and branding

Themes make a dashboard look like yours: background, card surfaces, fonts and the chart palette change together, consistently across every card. This page covers applying themes, building custom ones from your brand, and the colour tooling underneath.

Applying a theme to a dashboard​

In the dashboard editor, open the theme panel and pick from the gallery. Flynt ships eight built-in themes -- Flynt (the signature), Luxury, Corporate, Editorial, Institutional, Terminal, Blueprint and Playful -- each with a light and a dark variant you toggle per dashboard. The theme applies to the whole dashboard: canvas background, card styling, typography and the colour series your charts cycle through. Per-card colour overrides still win where you have set them.

Applying a theme is part of editing the dashboard, so anyone who can edit it can theme it.

Custom themes​

The Themes page lets you build organisation-wide themes from your brand. You start from one of the built-in themes as a base, then override the parts that carry your identity:

  • background and card surface colours
  • divider and card border treatment
  • card shadow (none, soft or strong)
  • display and body fonts, from a curated list
  • the chart palette

A live preview shows the result as you adjust it. Saved themes are shared with the whole organisation and appear in every dashboard's theme gallery alongside the built-ins, tagged as yours.

Creating, editing and deleting custom themes requires the Designer tier (T5) or above. Everyone can browse and apply them.

Shared palettes​

Alongside full themes, your organisation can keep named colour palettes -- your brand colours as reusable swatches. They appear in the colour picker wherever you choose a colour: per-card series overrides, text colours, shape fills on a canvas, and so on. Designers (T5+) create and manage shared palettes; everyone can use them.

Personal saved colours​

The colour picker also keeps a personal swatch row: save the colours you reach for often and they follow your account everywhere you pick a colour, up to 48 swatches. No special tier required -- saved colours are yours alone. A Designer can promote their current saved colours into a shared organisation palette in one step.

Where colour comes from on a chart​

When a chart renders, each series takes its colour in this order:

  1. a per-series override set on the card
  2. the card's single colour override, for the first series
  3. the active dashboard theme's palette
  4. the default palette

So themed dashboards stay consistent by default, and a deliberate per-card choice always survives a theme change.

Good to know​

  • A dashboard stores only the theme choice and mode; the theme itself is resolved when the dashboard renders, so refining a custom theme updates every dashboard using it.
  • Charts on both grid and canvas dashboards pick up the theme identically.
  • Theme permissions gate writes only: viewing themed dashboards needs nothing beyond ordinary viewing access.