bulma/docs/documentation/overview/customize.html

---
title: Customize Bulma
layout: documentation
doc-tab: overview
doc-subtab: customize
---

{% capture sass %}
// 1. Import the initial variables
@import "../sass/utilities/initial-variables"
@import "../sass/utilities/function";
@import "../sass/utilities/derived-variables.sass";

// 2. Set your own initial variables
// Update blue
$blue: #72d0eb
// Add pink and its invert
$pink: #ffb3b3
$pink-invert: #fff
// Add a serif family
$family-serif: "Merriweather", "Georgia", serif

// 3. Set the derived variables
// Use the new pink as the primary color
$primary: $pink
$primary-invert: $pink-invert
// Use the existing orange as the danger color
$danger: $orange
// Use the new serif family
$family-primary: $family-serif

// 4. Setup your Custom Colors
$linkedin: #0077B5
$linkedin-invert: findColorInvert($linkedin)
$twitter: #1DA1F2
$twitter-invert: findColorInvert($twitter)
$github: #222222
$github-invert: findColorInvert($github)
// Add new color variables to the color map.
$addColors: (
  "twitter":($twitter, $twitter-invert), 
  "linkedin": ($linkedin, $linkedin-invert),
  "github": ($github, $github-invert)
)
$colors: map-merge($colors, $addColors)

// 5. Import the rest of Bulma
@import "../bulma"
{% endcapture %}

{% include subnav-overview.html %}

<section class="section">
  <div class="container">
    <h1 class="title">Customizing with Sass</h1>
    <h2 class="subtitle">Create your <strong>own theme</strong> with a simple set of <strong>variables</strong></h2>

    <hr>

    <div class="content">
      <p>If you're familiar with <a href="http://sass-lang.com/">Sass</a> and want to <strong>customize</strong> Bulma with your own colors and variables, just install Bulma via <strong>npm</strong>:</p>
    </div>

    <article class="media is-large">
      <div class="media-left">
        <p class="title is-5">1</p>
      </div>
      <div class="media-content">
        <p class="title is-5">
          <strong>Download</strong> the source files:
        </p>
        {% highlight bash %}npm install bulma{% endhighlight %}
        <div class="content">or clone the repository: <a href="https://github.com/jgthms/bulma">https://github.com/jgthms/bulma</a></div>
      </div>
    </article>

    <article class="media is-large">
      <div class="media-left">
        <p class="title is-5">2</p>
      </div>
      <div class="media-content">
        <p class="title is-5">
          <strong>Set</strong> your variables
        </p>
        <p class="subtitle is-6">
          Add your own colors, set new fonts, override Bulma's default styles...
        </p>
        <div class="highlight-full">
          {% highlight sass %}{{ sass }}{% endhighlight %}
        </div>
      </div>
    </article>

    <article class="media is-large">
      <div class="media-left">
        <p class="title is-5">3</p>
      </div>
      <div class="media-content">
        <p class="title is-5">
          See the <strong>result</strong>: before and after
        </p>
        <p class="subtitle is-6">
          As <code>$blue</code> has been updated, and since <code>$blue-invert</code> is automatically calculated with the <strong>function</strong> <code>$blue-invert: findColorInvert($blue)</code>, the <code>$blue-invert</code> is now black instead of white</p>
        </p>
        <figure>
          <img width="640" height="640" src="{{site.url}}/images/customize-before.png" alt="Customizing Bulma with Sass">
          <img width="640" height="640" src="{{site.url}}/images/customize-after.png" alt="Customizing Bulma with Sass">
        </figure>
      </div>
    </article>
  </div>
</section>