Carousel designs

The look a carousel's slides render with: CSS and slide markup, resolved through a set of structured settings. Studio, then Settings, then Carousel designs.

Where a design applies

A carousel names one design directly. You pick it when you create the carousel, and you can change it any time in the carousel's own editor. There is no separate override at schedule time or post level: a carousel just points at a design, and changing that pointer changes what it renders as next time.

Editing a design itself is broader than one carousel: colours, fonts and elements apply everywhere that design is used, so every carousel built from it re-skins on its next render. See Carousels for the carousel side of this.

Creating one

Clone from the catalog. Start from a predefined design and edit it. Easiest path.

Generate with AI. Describe what you want and a design is written for you, in the background.

Write it from scratch. Full control over the CSS and slide markup.

Every design, whatever its source, is validated before saving, so a broken one cannot be stored and blow up a render later.

Settings

Colours. Background, text and muted colours for the design. Some catalog designs paint with the identity's accent instead and leave these disabled: what those look like is the identity's choice, not a background/text setting.

Typography. Heading and body fonts, picked from a curated list of real system fonts and a few Google fonts. Google fonts load while the page is open, so the picker shows each option's real face.

Elements.

• Size: portrait (4:5, 1080 by 1350) or square (1:1, 1080 by 1080). Portrait fills the LinkedIn document and the Instagram feed; square is the safe choice everywhere else.
• Page counter and swipe hint, each on or off.

Code. The raw CSS and slide markup, collapsed by default. This is where "write it from scratch" and a cloned catalog design both end up.

Default identity. The identity a new carousel from this design starts with. Change it on the carousel itself any time; this only decides the starting point.

Accent colour

The accent always comes from the identity, never the design. One design can serve every identity in the brand, and each carousel renders in its own colour.

Canvas size and the platforms

4:5 (1080 by 1350) is the default, and sits inside Instagram's accepted 4:5 to 1.91:1 range. 1:1 (1080 by 1080) is also available and safe everywhere. Every catalog design supports both sizes.