Skip to content

How to use Brand Kits in a template

  • Create your Brand Kit in the GraFx Brand Kit application
  • Import a Brand Kit in your GraFx Studio Document
  • Use the Media, Fonts and Styles in your document

Import a Brand Kit

In the Brand Kit panel, click the Import Icon

screenshot

Choose the Brand Kit you created

screenshot-full

Click Apply

screenshot-full

Confirm, since your Brand Kit elements will replace the current definitions in the document.

screenshot

You are now ready to use your Brand Kit elements in your Document.

Keep a Brand Kit in sync

Once a Brand Kit is imported, the template can stay aligned with the source Brand Kit in GraFx Brand Kits. When an element is updated centrally (for example a new brand color, or a revised paragraph style), those changes can be pulled into the template without re-importing.

Sync is controlled from the Brand Kit panel header, which now surfaces three controls next to the Brand Kit name: the Brand Kit selector, the manual sync button, and the auto-sync toggle.

screenshot

The Brand Kit selector (the swap icon) lets you switch the template to a different imported Brand Kit.

Auto-sync

The Auto-sync toggle controls whether the template stays aligned automatically:

screenshot

  • When auto-sync is on, Studio compares the template's Brand Kit against the source every time the template is opened and every time the Brand Kit panel is opened, and applies any changes in a single step. A toast message confirms when a sync has been applied.
  • When auto-sync is off, the template keeps its current Brand Kit values until you sync manually.

Newly imported Brand Kits have auto-sync enabled by default.

Manual sync

The circular-arrows button next to the Brand Kit selector pulls the latest version of the source Brand Kit on demand. Hover shows the Sync Brand Kit tooltip. Useful when auto-sync is off, or to force an update in-session after a Brand Kit change.

screenshot

What a sync changes

Sync applies only the differences between the template and the source:

  • New elements in the source are added to the template.
  • Updated elements are replaced with their latest values.
  • Removed elements in the source are not deleted from the template — existing user content is preserved.
  • A renamed element is added as a new element (names act as identifiers).

A sync is a single undoable step — use undo/redo to revert it.