StoryMaps- Build a Custom Theme from an Existing Esri Theme

[Amanda__Huber]

Hi ArcGIS StoryMaps Team, 

For those organizations who would like to use an existing theme but tweak it, It would be great to have the option to edit an existing Esri theme (versus starting blank and having to rebuild everything). 

 ---> Edit one of these themes

Just an idea that we'd really appreciate 🙂 

Thanks, 

Amanda

[OwenGeo]

Hi @Amanda__Huber -- We did do a basic design for how it would work to create a new theme from one of the core themes, but we have't prioritized building it yet since we hadn't (until now 🙂 ) gotten any requests for this. Also, we figured the main thing authors might want to do if they like one of the core themes is add their own logo, and that is already available in the Design panel. 

We do plan to add this feature at some point, but it is currently a lower priority. However, we'll monitor this idea to see how many votes it gets to see how much demand there is for this!

[JaapSmit]

Great idea!

This is also on my list.

A first step can be, the documentation of the configuration of the basic themes.

Thanks Jaap 

[OwenGeo]

@Amanda__Huber @JaapSmit  -- In our update last week we documented the colors and fonts for all the provided themes so you can more easily mimic them in your own custom theme.

See the table in this help topic: Set a theme—ArcGIS StoryMaps | Documentation

[Amanda__Huber]

@OwenGeo amazing!

Thank you so much 🙂 

[JaapSmit]

@OwenGeo Thank you very much!

I see, you published the settings of:

Colors	Story header and footer Story background Accent colors
Typography (font and color)	Title and headings Paragraph text Caption text

Question

Can you also publish the following elements?

Buttons	Style and color
Quotes	Style, color, and alignment
Links	Style and color
Separators	Style, color, and position

Thanks, Jaap

[OwenGeo]

@JaapSmit  -- Fonts and colors are not easy to determine by looking at them, so that's why we included those in the doc.

We don't plan to add the styles to the doc since they are easily recognizable and there are only a small number of options for each, but here they are for reference...

Theme	Button style	Quote style	Link style	Separator style
Summit	1	1	1	1, left
Obsidian	3	1	1	1, left
Ridgeline	2	1	1	1, left
Mesa	1	1	1	1, left
Tidal	1	3, left	1	3, center
Slate	1	2, left	1	2, full width

The color of each element is the accent color, which is already documented for each standard theme (and is the default option in theme builder).

[JaapSmit]

Thanks OwenGeo!