Meridian

Style kits

A style kit is a complete look: a typeface pairing, both colour schemes,

and the layout personality that goes with them. There are 39.

Switching a kit restyles the whole site instantly and touches no content.

Your pages, photographs and posts are not modified.

Switching

WordPress: Meridian → Appearance, or the Customizer for a live preview

against your own photographs.

Meridian Studio: Settings → Appearance. Each kit card has a *See it on your

site* link that shows your real site in that kit before you commit.

The five families

  • Light — pale, airy, romantic
  • Editorial — structured, monochrome, magazine
  • Earth — warm, botanical, sun-faded
  • Cool — coastal, slate, marine
  • Deep — dark grounds and high drama

Two colour schemes

Each kit defines colour as two independent schemes. Scheme 1 is the ground most

sections sit on. Scheme 2 is the contrasting surface used by dark sections, the

footer and the featured pricing tier.

Because they are independent, a kit can invert — Obsidian runs a bone panel on

a charcoal ground, the reverse of every other kit.

Layout switches

Five switches sit on top of the kit and change independently:

  • Header — name left, centred, stacked, or name only
  • Spacing — compact, regular, generous
  • Image entrance — curtain wipe, rise and fade, fade only, none
  • Small labels — uppercase and tracked, sentence case, italic serif
  • Side rail — show or hide

Each defaults to Match the kit, so choosing a kit gives you its intended

personality until you decide otherwise.

Your own colours

The Brand settings override the kit wherever you fill them in. Leave a field

empty and the kit's own value is used — which is what keeps kit switching

working. Fill them all in and you have pinned your palette permanently.