Restyle a Kit share
Pick one of seventeen looks, switch on immersion, add your brand, and change the look of a published Kit share without changing its link.
A Kit page can take one of seventeen whole-page looks, and you can restyle a published Kit share at any time without changing its link. Kit shares come from Share Kit.
Restyle without a new link#
Select a Kit Share in Shares.
Use the Style card in the detail pane to change its personality, theme, text size, charts, layout or accent colour. You see a preview first.
Keep applies it for everyone who opens the link, Discard drops the preview, and Undo steps back to the style you kept before.
The link never changes. Only you, the person who published it, can restyle a Kit Share: other readers never see the style controls, and their own light or dark toggle changes only what they see.
Text size is just text size. The Style card's Text size choice (it used to be called Density) is Comfortable or Compact. Compact makes the text smaller and the spacing tighter. It no longer makes the page wider; width is now each reader's own choice (below).
Restyle on the page itself#
If a Kit Share has comments or saved progress turned on, you (and only you) also get a small ⋯ button on the page that opens a style panel.
There is no Keep button there: each click changes the page straight away and is saved for everyone a moment later.
A quick run of clicks counts as one change, so Undo takes the whole run back.
The panel tells you when it is saving and when it is saved; if a save fails it says so and puts the page back the way it was.
Click anywhere outside the panel, press Escape or use its close button to close it, and nothing you changed is lost.
Change the look after publishing#
On a Kit Share made with the looks, the Style card (and the ⋯ panel on the page itself, when it shows) starts with a Look group. Pick any look the page has, or turn Immersive on or off when the page has a themed world. A look change is saved for everyone straight away, with no Keep step, and the preview reloads to show it. The link never changes, and Undo takes you back.
Not sure which look you want? Make it different in the Look group moves the Share to the next look that suits it, in the order Yardmaster ranked them when you published. Click again to keep walking through the looks that fit. It is free, never uses AI, and Undo steps back. If only one look suits the Share, it says so and changes nothing.
A page published before the eight newest looks arrived offers the nine it was made with; publish it again for all seventeen.
A Share published before the looks existed cannot change its look: publish it again to choose one.
Any other style choices you had not kept yet are saved together with a look change.
If you change the style a lot in a short time (more than 30 changes of any kind in 10 minutes), Yardmaster asks you to wait a few minutes.
Your logo stays when you change the look, but the page uses the new look's own second and third chart colours instead of your brand's.
Put your brand on Kit pages#
In Shares, open the settings gear and find Look to save your logo, up to two more brand colours and a Preferred look. Turn on Use my brand on new Kit Shares (it is off at first) and new Kit Shares that do not set an accent get your logo, colours and preferred look. With it off, an agent can still ask for your brand on a single page.
Your logo sits at the top of the page in a style that suits each look.
Your extra colours become the second and third chart colours when they are easy enough to read in both light and dark.
Updating an existing Share keeps the look it already has.
A logo saved before brand looks existed needs to be uploaded once more before it can show on a Kit page.
Let AI re-imagine a Share#
Re-imagine this Share asks AI to rethink a Kit Share's look and layout without changing a single fact. It is in preview and costs money: see Re-imagine a Share with AI.
Pick one of seventeen looks#
A Kit page can take one of seventeen whole-page looks.
Editorial (a thoughtful magazine, the default)
Calm Product (a modern app)
Bold (a keynote on stage)
Newspaper (a front page)
Notebook (hand-made study notes)
Blueprint (an engineering drawing)
Playful (bright and bouncy)
Luxury Magazine (quiet and expensive)
Retro Terminal (a green screen)
Riso Zine (a two-ink print zine)
Swiss (a strict grid poster with one red accent)
Art Deco (black and gold glamour)
Comic (panels and speech bubbles)
Corkboard (cards pinned to a board)
Glass (frosted panels over soft colour)
Legal / Formal (numbered clauses and a seal)
Storybook (a warm picture book)
The agent can pick the look from the subject and who will read it. If it leaves the look empty, Yardmaster picks a fitting one itself, avoids repeating the last two looks you used, and never picks a playful or loud look for a serious subject such as an incident, a legal matter or bad news, so a launch does not look like a runbook.
When an agent updates a Share, it keeps the look it already had. Every look works in both light and dark and is checked at desktop and phone widths before a page goes live. The Share Showcase shows one page in all seventeen.
Turn a page into a themed world#
For fun topics, launches, kids and events, the agent can switch a page to immersive, which turns its accent into a whole themed world. There are eighteen:
Everyday worlds: a game, a circuit board, a trading screen, a lab bench, a field guide, match day, a seventies arcade, mission control or a polished product launch.
New themed worlds: Ocean (deep water and rippling light), Fantasy (an old adventure map), Neon (a city at night in glowing signs), Cabin (pine, firelight and knitting) and Wild West (a desert dusk and poster type).
New seasonal worlds: Halloween, Lunar New Year (red and gold lanterns), Diwali (glowing lamps, marigolds and rangoli) and Winter Holidays (coloured lights and snow).
It is drawn by the page itself with nothing loaded from elsewhere, and it is never used for bad news, legal or formal updates. The themed and seasonal worlds work on pages published from now on; an older page keeps its accent look until it is published again.
When you publish a fresh page during a season (Halloween in the second half of October, the winter holidays through December, and the weeks around Lunar New Year and Diwali), the agent is told the seasonal world is available, so it can offer to dress the page for it. It is only a suggestion: the date never changes a page's look by itself, and status pages, runbooks, reports and pages for executives never get one.
Let each reader pick the width#
Every reader can pick Narrow, Normal or Wide for themselves under Page width in the page's Reader menu. It changes only what they see, never the page for anyone else: see Read a shared page your way.
Related
- See everything a Share can beA gallery of live sample Shares: every Kit, every Look, the immersive worlds and the reader features, each showing off one thing.
- Read a shared page your wayThe Reader menu on every shared page: read it aloud, translate it, see the short version, ask the page a question, pick the width and follow a presenter.
- Change how Yardmaster looksPick dark or light, choose one of thirteen looks, import your own theme, and decide how much motion and depth you want.