Theme settings

Theme settings is the gear icon at the bottom of the left column in the theme editor. These settings apply to the whole store. Anything set on an individual section overrides them there.

Logo#

Setting	Default	Notes
Logo image	none	Falls back to your store name set in monospace. Transparent PNG or SVG.
Logo width	120px	50–250px. Curio’s masthead is deliberately restrained.
Favicon	none	32×32 PNG recommended.

Colors#

Five schemes ship ready to use. Each has six roles, and each section in the theme picks a scheme by number, so recoloring the store is a matter of editing these rather than hunting through sections.

Scheme	Character
1 — Manila	Warm paper. The default, and what the theme was designed in.
2 — Counter	Clean white with a blue accent. The most neutral option.
3 — Kraft	Deeper card stock. Good for a warmer, older-stock feel.
4 — Surplus	Dark olive.
5 — Carbon	Near-black with a cool accent.

The roles, and what each one paints:

Role	Used for
Background	The page behind everything
Text	Body text, headings, and the hairline rules, which are drawn from the text color
Surface	Card and image backgrounds — a close sibling of the background, sharing its text color. Also secondary buttons.
Accent	Links, condition stamps, and focus outlines
Button, Button label	Primary buttons

Two things worth knowing before you change these:

Keep contrast. All five schemes ship above the WCAG AA thresholds. If you drop a pale accent onto a pale background, links become unreadable for some shoppers and Shopify’s own accessibility checks will flag it. Adjust the accent rather than the background when a pair looks wrong.
Gradients are available but off. Curio’s identity is flat print. A gradient background will work, and will read as a different theme.

Typography#

Two font pickers, with different jobs.

Setting	Default	Used for
Primary font	System sans-serif	Headings, body text, navigation
Ledger font	System monospace	Prices, tags, stamps, tables, labels, buttons
Heading size scale	100%	90–125%, scales the whole heading ladder

Both default to system fonts, which means zero font downloads and a measurably faster store. Changing them to a hosted font from Shopify’s library costs real load time; it can be worth it, but spend it knowingly.

There is one rule the design depends on, and the theme enforces it for you: the primary font is sentence case, the ledger font is uppercase. Long text is never set in the ledger font. That contrast is what keeps a print-primitive look from tipping into pastiche.

Layout#

Setting	Default	Range
Page width	1440px	1200–1600px
Page margin	24px	16–64px — the minimum gutter on small screens
Section spacing	64px	40–96px — vertical space between sections

Setting	Default	Notes
Show breadcrumbs	on	A trail above the content on everything except the home page
Show a back-to-top button	on	Appears once you have scrolled. No JavaScript involved.

Ledger marks#

The dial between “working stock ledger” and “sharp minimal shop”. Turn any of these off and the layout stays intact — the marks simply stop being drawn.

Setting	Default	What it controls
Show lot numbers	on	The `No. 001` numbering on cards and grids
Show condition stamps	on	Stamped grade chips everywhere they appear
Tilt stamps and notes	on	The slight rotation on stamps. Off is cleaner and more corporate.
Show receipt perforation and barcode marks	on	The cart’s receipt treatment

Product cards#

Setting	Default	Notes
Image fit	Show full image	Show full image sits the whole photo on a card mat — the right choice for mixed, inherited photography. Fill the frame crops to fill, for a consistent shot library.
Show vendor	on
Show condition stamp	on	Needs `curio.condition_grade`
Show quick view	on	Opens the product in a dialog from the grid. Loads only when clicked.
Show quick add	off	Single-variant products only, where one click is unambiguous

Badges#

Badges read your own data — a compare-at price, a publish date, tracked inventory. One badge shows at a time. Nothing here can invent a claim.

Setting	Default	Notes
Show badges	on	The master switch
Show a reduced badge	on	Requires a compare-at price higher than the price
Reduced badge shows	Wording	Or a calculated percentage off
Show a low stock badge	off	Only for products with inventory tracking on
Low stock at	3	1–20
Count as new for	0 days	Days since publishing. 0 turns the new badge off.

Sold lots#

Setting	Default	Notes
Enable sold archive	off	Sold-out products stay browsable with a sold stamp instead of dropping out
Show price on sold lots	on	What it went for. Some dealers want this, some do not.

Turning the archive on changes what a sold product page does: a grayscale gallery, a SOLD overstamp, a struck price, and a bordered notice with a link onward. It is off by default because it only makes sense once you actually have an archive worth showing. See the sold archive.

Cart#

Setting	Default	Notes
Cart type	Drawer	Drawer slides in over the page; Page navigates to `/cart`
Show cart note	on	A free-text note field, which resale buyers use constantly
Show Sign in with Shop	on	Requires customer accounts to be enabled
Offer gift wrapping	off	See gift wrapping
Gift wrapping product	none	The product added as the wrapping line

Motion#

Setting	Default	Notes
Reveal sections as they scroll in	on	Always disabled for shoppers whose system asks for reduced motion

Curio has exactly one hover gesture: elements press 2px into their own shadow. There is no setting for it, and no carousel autoplay anywhere in the theme.

Search#

Setting	Default	Notes
Show search suggestions while typing	on	Products, collections, pages, and articles. The script loads on first interaction with the search field, not on page load.

Six link fields — Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest. Paste the full URL. Only the ones you fill in are drawn, and the icons appear in the footer when Show social icons is on there.

Follow on Shop#

Setting	Default	Notes
Show Follow on Shop button	on	Lets Shop app users follow your store from the footer