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description: To define your brand’s unique identity within Salesforce, create a custom theme. As an admin, you can specify your custom theme’s color palette, and upload your company logo and your own background images. Use a custom theme to rally your team around important initiatives, like a campaign or new product launch. Or you can make sure that your team’s work fits seamlessly into the rest of your company's environment.
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# Create a Custom Theme

To define your brand’s unique identity within Salesforce, create a custom theme. As an admin, you can specify your custom theme’s color palette, and upload your company logo and your own background images. Use a custom theme to rally your team around important initiatives, like a campaign or new product launch. Or you can make sure that your team’s work fits seamlessly into the rest of your company's environment.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d62668e81 ">View Setup and Configuration</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d62668e81 ">To activate, create, edit, or preview a theme:</td>

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1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Themes and Branding, and then select **Themes and Branding**.
2. To create a custom Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) 2 theme, click **New Theme**.
    
    Or, to create a custom SLDS 1 theme, click ![Dropdown icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-setup-264-0-0-production-enus/6f21df35-9ea0-4f53-ac94-45c3b5dfd5bc/resources-global/_corporate/images/dropdown.png) and then click **New SLDS 1 Theme**. Themes built on SLDS 2 use the newest design system and pave the way for advanced features and customizations through CSS-based styling hooks, next-generation components, modern web standards, and more.
3. Customize your theme.
    
    You can enhance custom themes in many ways, such as adding your unique brand color and logo, and default group and user profile banners. For custom SLDS 2 themes, you can configure advanced accent colors. See [Manage Custom Configurations for Themes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.brand_custom_configurations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Customize your org’s theme with clicks, not code. To personalize your users’ Salesforce experience, add your company’s logo, define your brand colors, and more. Most customizations are available only for custom themes. Some customizations are available only if you built your theme on a specific version of the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS).").
4. Save your changes.
5. Click **Preview** to see how your theme looks, or click **Activate** to make your theme live for all of your users.
6. If your org currently uses a Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) 1 theme and you activate a custom 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 a custom SLDS 1 theme, click **Activate** again to confirm that you intend to deactivate SLDS 2 for your org.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-setup-264-0-0-production-enus/6f21df35-9ea0-4f53-ac94-45c3b5dfd5bc/images/icon_note.png)

Note 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](https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/2e1ef8501/p/8184ad-transition-to-slds-2).

Your designers and engineers can take your custom SLDS 2 themes even further and create user interfaces that are consistent with Salesforce design principles, visual language, and best practices. To learn how to design and build with SLDS 2, see [Salesforce Lightning Design System 2](https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/2e1ef8501/p/85bd85-lightning-design-system-2).