> ## Knowledge Base Index > Fetch the complete knowledge base index at: https://help.getzendo.io/sitemap.xml > Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further. > Pure-Markdown content can be obtained by appending a '.md' suffix to the content URLs listed in the sitemap (without the trailing slash). # Create a client theme A client theme gives one client, or one client team, a look of their own in the client portal: their brand instead of yours. It can be used, for example, for a reseller, a white-label partner, or a client whose staff use the portal every day. Everyone else keeps the look you set in **Brand › Appearance**, and so does your own team; a theme cannot be given to a role. ## Create and assign the theme 1. Open **Settings › Brand › Client themes** and select **Create theme**. 2. On the **General** tab, enter the **Theme name** and choose the clients and client teams in **Applies to**. If the theme is for a company, choose the team rather than individual people, so that people added to the team later get the theme too. 3. On the **General**, **Light** and **Dark** tabs, turn on **Override** only for the sections that should look different, and set them. To start from a ready-made look, use **Choose a theme preset** at the top. 4. With **Live preview** on, the settings pages show the theme as you edit it. Then publish the theme. Clients do not see a theme that is still in **Draft**. 5. Open the client's profile and use **View as client** to see the theme on their real account. See [View the portal as a client](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/view-the-portal-as-a-client-8xh4sc/). ![The General tab of a client theme: its name and the clients it applies to (2), and Override on a section (3).](https://getzendo.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/kb-p3-general.webp =403x298) ![The Light tab: a theme can use its own sidebar logo, and overrides only the sections you turn on (3).](https://getzendo.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/kb-p3-light.webp =473x514) ## Ideas for client themes - **A white-label partner** who resells your service gets their own colours and sidebar logo, so their clients never see your brand. - **A key account** gets a portal in their own brand colours. It is a small touch that makes your service feel built for them. - **A client team with a dark-mode habit**, such as a studio, gets a theme that overrides only the **Dark** tab. Every option you can override is listed in [Every appearance setting, explained](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/every-appearance-setting-explained-1nwos1n/). ## A theme stores only what you override A theme has the same three tabs as Appearance (**General**, **Light** and **Dark**) and the same sections: typography, accent colour, links, background, page surface, sidebar, top bar, controls and contrast. **Light** and **Dark** also have **Sidebar logo**, where the theme can use its own logo or hide it. Every section you do not override keeps coming from **Brand › Appearance**, now and in the future. If you change the workspace accent colour, every theme that does not override the accent changes with it. When Zendo adds a new appearance setting, your themes pick it up from Appearance as well. The fewer sections a theme overrides, the more of your workspace look it keeps following; a theme that overrides everything no longer follows it at all. A client theme cannot change whether clients can switch between light and dark mode, or which mode they see by default. Both are set once for the whole workspace, under **Color mode** on **Settings › Brand › Appearance**. See [Set your workspace appearance](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/set-your-workspace-appearance-wobsc5/). ## Which theme a client gets Each client sees exactly one theme: the one that applies to them, or **Brand › Appearance** if none does. If two themes apply, for example one chosen for the client and one for their team, the most recently published theme wins. ## What a theme does not change A theme only changes the client portal. Emails from Zendo keep the logo and colours set in **Brand › Domain & email**, and quotes and invoices keep the document logo from **Sales › Payments & documents**. What the client can open — the sidebar, the dashboard and the onboarding cards — is set in **Settings › Portal**, not in the theme. See [Show different things to different clients](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/show-different-things-to-different-clients-td4yka/). ## Related - [Every appearance setting, explained](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/every-appearance-setting-explained-1nwos1n/) - [Set your workspace appearance](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/set-your-workspace-appearance-wobsc5/) - [Show different things to different clients](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/show-different-things-to-different-clients-td4yka/) - [Put your logo, favicon and app icon in place](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/put-your-logo-favicon-and-app-icon-in-place-1sy8a1l/) - [View the portal as a client](https://help.getzendo.io/en/article/view-the-portal-as-a-client-8xh4sc/)