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Content on images

Where words sit on pictures in the Hero, Image with text, Image reveal, Video and page starts, and how they stay readable.

Online Store › Themes › Customize › Theme settings › Content on images

Where the words, buttons and other blocks of Hero, Image with text, Image reveal and Video sit, and the looks' words. Each section can set its own by turning off Follow Theme settings for content placement.

Content position on desktop

Choice · default Bottom center

On the image at one of nine places, or above, below or beside it. Off the image, the content takes the section's color scheme.

Options: Top left, Top center, Top right, Middle left, Middle center, Middle right, Bottom left, Bottom center, Bottom right, Above the image, Below the image, Beside the image

Content position on phones

Choice · default Bottom center

Options: Top left, Top center, Top right, Middle left, Middle center, Middle right, Bottom left, Bottom center, Bottom right, Above the image, Below the image

Text alignment on desktop

Choice · default Match the position

Match the position lines the text up with where the content sits.

Options: Match the position, Left, Center, Right

Text alignment on phones

Choice · default Match the position

Options: Match the position, Left, Center, Right

Content width

Choice · default Medium

Beside an image, Full width is the whole column.

Options: Narrow, Medium, Wide, Full width

Distance from the image's edges

Choice · default Page margin

Options: Page margin, Double the page margin, None

Space between blocks

Choice · default Standard

Options: Tight, Standard, Loose

Box behind the content

Choice · default None

A color scheme's ground, or a translucent one that keeps the image showing.

Options: None, Color scheme, Translucent

Box color scheme

Color scheme

Words color

Choice · default Automatic

On the image. Automatic picks light or dark for the part of the image behind the words (Readability, below, sets how strict it is).

Options: Automatic, Light, Dark

Shade

Slider · 0% to 60% · default 0%

Shade style

Choice · default Gradient from the content's side

Gradient darkens from the content's side (from the foot for content at the bottom); Even darkens the whole image.

Options: Gradient from the content's side, Even

Height

Choice · default 88% of the screen

With the content on the image. The image's shape keeps Image shape where the section has one (else the image's own proportions); the section grows if the content needs more room.

Options: The image's shape, The screen, 88% of the screen, 80% of the screen, 60% of the screen

Transparent header over a first image

Choice · default Match the words

When the section is first on the page and its content is on the image. Match the words takes the words' color.

Options: Off, Match the words, Light, Dark

Bring the content in with the scroll

Checkbox · on by default

The product page's Looks: the look's name, description and link come in over its picture as the page scrolls. Off, they show from the start; with reduced motion they always do. The other sections show their content from the start.

Beside the image

Content position beside the image

Choice · default Middle

Options: Top, Middle, Bottom

Image side

Choice · default Left

Options: Left, Right

Image's share of the width

Choice · default Half

Options: Half, Two thirds, One third

Text on images

How the theme colors a title set on a picture, such as a look's, when its color is Automatic. It measures the part of the picture behind each line and picks light or ink. Where neither reads well enough, the text moves outside the picture.

Readability

Choice · default Balanced

Strict asks for the contrast recommended for body text (4.5:1) and keeps text on fewer pictures. Balanced asks for 3:1.

Options: Balanced, Strict, Custom

Minimum contrast

Slider · 2:1 to 7:1 · default 3:1

4.5:1 is the contrast recommended for body text, 3:1 for large text.

Text allowed below the minimum

Slider · 0% to 50% · default 25%

Past this share of the text, the color doesn't count as readable.

Lean towards

Choice · default No preference

Uses this color whenever it reads well enough, even where the other would read slightly better.

Options: No preference, Light, Ink