Custom themes in dashboards

Use customized themes to personalize your dashboards based on your needs and using your branding. Create your own themes and share them with others in your organization.

Who can use this?

Plans:

  • Pro
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Permissions:

  • Owner
  • Admin

Find out if this capability is included in Smartsheet Regions or Smartsheet Gov.

Custom themes let you apply consistent branding like colors, fonts, and widget styles, across your dashboards. Once you've built a theme, you can export and share it so your whole organization stays visually aligned without having to rebuild from scratch.

You can create up to nine custom themes per dashboard.

Create a custom theme

Once you apply a custom theme, any previous widget styling resets.

Here's how to create a custom theme:

  1. In a dashboard, select Edit Dashboard from the toolbar.
  2. Select the Themes from the toolbar.

  3. Under Custom themes, select Create theme > Create new. The Edit theme panel appears.

    You can optionally base your theme on an existing one. Here you'd select  Create theme > Import and edit it.

  4. Select the desired colors for Canvas, Title widgets, Widgets and Chart series.
  5. Expand the Text section. Select the desired format for  Title widgets and Widgets.

To preview your custom theme, select the back arrow to the left of Edit theme.

  1. Select Save.

To use your own brand colors, modify the Hex color code to match the color you want. The Theme section in the color picker includes all your theme colors, so you can manually customize a widget, too.


The mobile app doesn't support custom themes.

Share a custom theme

You can share a custom theme by exporting it to a file and sharing the file through your preferred channels. 

You can import your custom theme into other dashboards.

Export a theme

To export a customized theme:

  1. In a dashboard, select Edit Dashboard from the toolbar.
  2. Select the Themes from the toolbar. 
  3. In the Custom themes section, select the theme to export.
  4. Use the three-dot menu to display the options and select Export. Smartsheet downloads your theme to your computer as a .json file.
  5. Locate the .json file in the Downloads folder on your computer.
  6. Share your custom theme file with whoever you like.

Alternatively, you can export a theme from the Edit theme panel. Select the three-dot menu and select Export. A file download begins automatically.

Import a theme

Follow these steps to import a custom theme.

  1. In a dashboard, select Edit Dashboard from the toolbar.
  2. Select the Themes from the toolbar.
  3. Select the Dashboard theme (color palette) icon.
  4. Under Custom themes, select Create theme.
  5. Use the options displayed to choose whether to Create new or Import.
  6. Select the .json file from your computer.
  7. The theme now appears in your Current themes section and is ready to use.

Alternatively, import a theme from the Edit theme panel. Select the three-dot menu and select Import.

Duplicate or delete  a theme

  1. In a dashboard, select Edit Dashboard from the toolbar.
  2. Select the Themes from the toolbar.
  3. Hover over the theme you want to duplicate.
  4. Select the three-dot menu.
  5. Select Duplicate or Delete, according to your need.

You can’t delete a custom theme if it’s the current theme of your dashboard.