Customize Theme in SharePoint Online Portal

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Organizations can have a uniqueness to the sites in the intranet portal while each department or branch has a separate site. Most people wouldn’t like to change the colors completely in the theme as available in OOTB, instead, they would like to change few things on the page while it still looks like their original theme of the organization. Microsoft has brought in an option to implement the custom theme in SharePoint online. So this post talks about how can implement the theme customization in SharePoint Portal.


Microsoft has provided an online generator to create a custom theme which helps site owners to select the color combination and verify instantly. Below screen shows how the generator looks like.

https://aka.ms/themedesigner


Instantly showing the changes in sample page which is available right after the color slider. After finalizing colors, you can export it in different ways as JS code, JSON and PowerShell Script. This article is going to explain the way you can add it into SharePoint online using PowerShell.


Below script will be able to create a new theme in SharePoint Online.

$adminUPN="username@OrgName.onmicrosoft.com"
$orgName="OrgName"
$userCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN -Message "Your Password"
Connect-SPOService -Url https://$orgName-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential

$themepalette =@{
"themePrimary" = "#d63507";
"themeLighterAlt" = "#fdf6f4";
"themeLighter" = "#f8dad2";
"themeLight" = "#f3bcac";
"themeTertiary" = "#e67e61";
"themeSecondary" = "#db4a21";
"themeDarkAlt" = "#c13007";
"themeDark" = "#a32806";
"themeDarker" = "#781e04";
"neutralLighterAlt" = "#eededc";
"neutralLighter" = "#eadad8";
"neutralLight" = "#e1d2cf";
"neutralQuaternaryAlt" = "#d1c3c1";
"neutralQuaternary" = "#c8bab8";
"neutralTertiaryAlt" = "#c0b3b1";
"neutralTertiary" = "#111111";
"neutralSecondary" = "#171616";
"neutralPrimaryAlt" = "#1d1c1b";
"neutralPrimary" = "#323130";
"neutralDark" = "#282726";
"black" = "#2d2c2c";
"white" = "#f5e4e2";
}

Add-SPOTheme -Identity "SharePoint Code Snippet" -Palette $themepalette -IsInverted $false



After the execution of the above script, you will be able to see the custom theme in your site.




When looking at the generated script, you will have a key-value pair which defines the color in different part/area/control of a page. Keys in the script are usually used to call as Token. We should be able to use those tokens in our custom SPFx web parts. So the custom web part will be looking like a part of an existing page and site. 

Anandan is a SharePoint and Microsoft Azure consultant.He is having 9+ years of experience in the web, cloud, Machine Learning, IoT and mobile technology. He handled multi-platform solution as a consultant with the experience of designing, developing and deploying solutions by leveraging Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and Google technology stack, has played a dynamic role in the development of SharePoint and ML technologies. He writes articles related to SharePoint Online/On-Premises and Machine Learning.

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