To customize your users’ visual experience, activate a theme that reflects your brand. Activate a custom theme that celebrates your brand identity, or use a built-in theme with preset color palettes and images. Either way, a theme elevates your Salesforce org and enhances the user experience.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view company information: | View Setup and Configuration |
| To activate, create, edit, or preview a theme: | Customize Application |
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Themes and Branding, and then select Themes and Branding.
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Click
next to the custom or built-in theme that you want to learn more about or
activate.
- To see the theme details, such as colors, images, and accessibility settings, click View.
- To test how your org looks with the theme applied, click Preview.
- To apply the theme to your org and immediately make it visible to your users, click Activate.
- To activate a theme after you view or preview it, from the theme’s view page, click Activate.
- If your org currently uses a Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) 1 theme and you activate an SLDS 2 theme, click Activate again to confirm that you intend to activate SLDS 2 for your org. Similarly, if your org currently uses an SLDS 2 theme and you activate an SLDS 1 theme, click Activate again to confirm that you intend to disable SLDS 2 for your org.
Note When you activate an SLDS 2 theme, you enable SLDS 2 for your org. If you change
your active theme from an SLDS 2 theme to an SLDS 1 theme, you disable SLDS 2 for your org. See
Transition to SLDS 2.
When you activate a theme, it’s immediately applied to your org and visible to your users.
Most built-in themes don’t support customizations, but in some editions, you can enable dark mode for built-in or custom SLDS 2 themes.