Product Color Swatches

In the Shopify theme editor, when Swatches are selected as the product variant style there are several options for managing the color of the swatch.

Automatic detection based on the color name - In most cases, the theme will convert color variant names into CSS colors that will work automatically. The names are automatically associated with one of 140 color names that are supported by all modern browsers https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

Manually set up custom colors

 - It is possible to add-in custom color names or even overwrite the color HEX values of an existing CSS color by making changes to the  snippets/swatch-colors.liquid file. You can use the following examples as a guide to create custom colors:

• Custom color names must begin with "swatch_color_"
• Add the name of the product variant color all lowercase and without spaces
• Adding an existing CSS color name to the end of "swatch_color_" overwrites the default CSS color

Here are some examples for the following colors:

• Butter Yellow - {%- assign swatch_color_butteryellow = '#F3EF7D' -%}
• Grape - {%- assign swatch_color_grape = '#5F5387' -%}
• Navy (overwriting the default #000000 CSS color value for 'navy') - 
  {%- assign swatch_color_navy = '#0d0d73' -%}

Show swatch images - With this setting enabled, you can upload your own custom images. For best results, we recommend using a 100 x 100px .png image. The image file name will need to follow the handle, hyphenated format of the color option you are using for the variant. For example, Heather Gray would require a file name of heather-gray.png in order to display. The file name must match the variant color option in that format in order to appear. 

• Swatch images must match the names of the color options
• Save the image using all lowercase letter and dashes (-) for spaces
• Save the image as a .PNG image, ideally 100 x 100px square

To upload your image files, follow these steps: 

1. Open the Themes page of the Shopify admin
2. Click on the Actions drop-down and select Edit code
3. Open the Assets folder and select Add a new asset
4. Select Upload asset
5. Repeat this process for each swatch image you want to use.