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May 19, 2023

Tags:

* Themes

# Add color schemes to themes

Theme developers can now add `color schemes` to themes. This update adds clarity and flexibility to the theme editing experience by allowing theme-defined and merchant-defined color schemes, adding a visual preview that enables merchants to more easily and predictably update theme colors, and allowing merchants to implement theme changes at the global, section, and block level within their theme.

A solution which will enable theme developers to specify how to migrate merchants’ theme data during the update process when introducing architecture changes (ex: changing scope of settings, modifying schema structure in other ways etc.) will be available later this summer.

Learn more about `color schemes` in the \[dev docs] (<https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/architecture/settings/input-settings#color_scheme_group>)