Color swatches
How to add color swatches to the Ella theme
Color swatches in Ella by HaloThemes: the Metaobjects swatch type, the Variant Picker block, and where the setting hides in Ella 7.
- Ella Paid theme
- By HaloThemes
- $79
- Native swatches: yes
Shopify theme
The Ella Shopify theme.
Ella is a paid Shopify theme by HaloThemes, sold on ThemeForest for $79. It supports Shopify's native color swatches.
The facts.
From the Shopify Theme Store and HaloThemes' documentation. A setting we could not confirm in the vendor's own documentation says "not confirmed by the vendor".
Checked
| Theme | Ella |
|---|---|
| Vendor | HaloThemes |
| Price | $79 ThemeForest regular license, including Envato's buyer fee, checked October 23, 2026. Prices on ThemeForest can change without notice. |
| Free or paid | Paid |
| Where it is sold | Sold on ThemeForest |
| Status | Current theme |
| Online Store 2.0 | Yes |
| Current version | Not stated by the vendor |
| Native color swatches | Yes |
| Variant picker block | Variant Picker |
| Swatch setting | Not confirmed by the vendor |
| Swatches on product cards | No setting documented |
| Swatch documentation | HaloThemes' documentation |
| Last checked | October 23, 2026 |
Image sizes.
The sizes Ella's documentation gives, each linked to its page. The image size checker applies them to your own files.
| Favicon | 32 x 32 px Automatically scaled to 32 x 32px. Source: HaloThemes' documentation. |
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Guides for Ella.
Tool
Theme image size checker
Drop in product photos, banners and logos to check them against Shopify's limits and Ella's documented sizes.
Swatch apps for Ella.
The apps the Ella swatch guide suggests, and what each App Store listing says about theme support (checked October 23, 2026). Ratings and the full comparison are on the color swatch hub.
| App | From | Theme support | Collection pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rubik Variant Images & Swatch | $25/month | Listing says it works with all themes | Not listed |
| GLO Color Swatch Variant Image | $9.90/month | Listing says it works with all themes | Yes |
| OP Color Swatch Variant Images | $11.90/month | Listing offers theme setup help, names no themes | Not listed |
Sources.
Every fact above comes from one of these pages. The swatch guide lists the Shopify help pages its steps rely on.
Set up swatches on Ella.
Shopify's own swatches, an app or the code route, with the setting names for this theme.