Twenty themes. Ten his, ten hers. No beige.
Registries are beige because beige offends nobody. But this is the only baby your family is having this year, and a site that looks like a spreadsheet is a strange place to keep the photographs. Pick a theme and the whole site becomes it.
- Ten boy themes and ten girl themes — deliberately no neutral option
- A theme changes the entire site, not a header colour
- Every theme is contrast-checked automatically, so nothing is unreadable
What "theme" means here
Not a colour picker. Each theme carries six seed colours from which the site derives twenty-seven design tokens — backgrounds, ink, borders, mist, gold, hero gradients — plus its own pairing of display and body fonts, a mascot, a set of motifs that drift down the page, and its own app icon for the home screen. Even the "page not found" screen wears it.
Woodland Bear is not Dino Explorer with a different green. They read as different products, which is the point.
Readable by construction, not by luck
A designer picking twenty palettes by eye will produce several that fail on a phone in sunlight. So the colours are derived rather than chosen: each theme's text tones are darkened automatically until they clear the WCAG AA contrast ratio against the surface they sit on.
Fifteen colour pairs across twenty themes — three hundred combinations — are checked on every single build, and the build fails if any one of them falls below the standard. That is not a promise about our taste; it is a test that runs before the code ships.
Change your mind whenever
Switching theme takes one click in the Theme Studio and re-skins the entire site immediately — every page, every email you send from it, the app icon and the falling motifs. Nothing you have written is touched. Try one for a week and change it the day before the shower if you like.
What it does not do
There is no gender-neutral theme, and that is a deliberate product decision rather than an oversight. If you would rather not choose a gendered look, pick whichever palette you like best — the themes are colour systems, and nothing in the site forces the language to match.
You cannot upload a custom palette. Twenty tested, accessible themes beat one you built at midnight that fails contrast on a grandparent's screen.
Questions
Can I use a boy theme for a girl?
Yes. The gender choice affects the pronouns in the copy; the theme is just a look, and you can pick any of the twenty.
Does changing theme lose anything?
Nothing at all. Themes are presentation only.
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