Color swatches
How to add color swatches to the Studio theme
Color swatches in Shopify's free Studio theme: step-by-step native setup, swatch filters, collection pages and common fixes.
- Studio Free Shopify theme
- Made by Shopify
- Free
- Native swatches: yes
- Version 16.1.0
Shopify theme
The Studio Shopify theme.
Studio is a free Shopify theme made by Shopify. The current version is 16.1.0 (October 9, 2026). It supports Shopify's native color swatches.
The facts.
From the Shopify Theme Store and Shopify's own pages. A setting we could not confirm in the vendor's own documentation says "not confirmed by the vendor".
Checked
| Theme | Studio |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Shopify |
| Price | Free Free in the Shopify Theme Store, checked October 23, 2026. |
| Free or paid | Free |
| Where it is sold | Shopify Theme Store |
| Status | Current theme |
| Online Store 2.0 | Yes |
| Current version | 16.1.0 (October 9, 2026) |
| Theme family | Shares Dawn's code and version number |
| Native color swatches | Yes |
| Variant picker block | Not confirmed by the vendor |
| Swatch setting | Not confirmed by the vendor |
| Swatches on product cards | Not confirmed by the vendor |
| Theme Store swatch features | Color swatches, swatch filters |
| Swatch documentation | Shopify Help Center |
| Last checked | October 23, 2026 |
Image sizes.
The sizes Studio's documentation gives, each linked to its page. The image size checker applies them to your own files.
| Product images | 2048 x 2048 px Shopify help, all themes: "For square product images, a size of 2048 x 2048 px usually displays best." Product and collection images up to 5000 x 5000 px / 25 MP and under 20 MB. Source: Shopify Help Center. |
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Guides for Studio.
Tool
Theme image size checker
Drop in product photos, banners and logos to check them against Shopify's limits and Studio's documented sizes.
Swatch apps for Studio.
The apps the Studio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLO Color Swatch Variant Image | $9.90/month | Listing says it works with all themes | Yes |
| Color Swatch Pug | $6.99/month | Listing names no themes | Yes |
| Variants King & Color Swatch | $14.90/month | Listing names no themes | Yes |
More from Shopify.
Other themes by Shopify with profiles here:
- Horizon (free shopify theme)
- Atelier (free shopify theme)
- Dwell (free shopify theme)
- Fabric (free shopify theme)
- Heritage (free shopify theme)
- Pitch (free shopify theme)
- Ritual (free shopify theme)
- Savor (free shopify theme)
- Tinker (free shopify theme)
- Vessel (free shopify theme)
- Dawn (free shopify theme)
- Sense (free shopify theme)
- Craft (free shopify theme)
- Crave (free shopify theme)
- Refresh (free shopify theme)
- Ride (free shopify theme)
- Taste (free shopify theme)
- Colorblock (free shopify theme)
- Publisher (free shopify theme)
- Spotlight (free shopify theme)
- Origin (free shopify theme)
- Trade (free shopify theme)
- Rise (free shopify theme)
- Debut (retired theme)
- Brooklyn (retired theme)
- Venture (retired theme)
- Minimal (retired theme)
- Supply (retired theme)
- Simple (retired theme)
- Narrative (retired theme)
- Boundless (retired theme)
- Express (retired theme)
- Pop (retired theme)
- Jumpstart (retired theme)
Sources.
Every fact above comes from one of these pages. The swatch guide lists the Shopify help pages its steps rely on.
Pages about Studio
- Shopify Theme Store: Studio listing
- Shopify Theme Store: free themes
- Shopify Theme Store: free themes with the color swatches feature
- Shopify Help Center: adding color swatches using category metafields
- Shopify/dawn on GitHub: sections/main-product.liquid
- Shopify Help Center: product media types and sizes
Set up swatches on Studio.
Shopify's own swatches, an app or the code route, with the setting names for this theme.