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Set up Brand Kits

Brand Kits lets you upload and organise your team or organisation's official logos, colours, fonts, and assets in one place. Admins and brand designers can create multiple kits for different teams, clients, or campaigns.

Looking for personal Brand Kits? If your admin has enabled them, you can create your own private Brand Kit. Learn how to create a personal Brand Kit.

Each Brand Kit includes assets and guidelines. To learn how to set up and use them, visit our articles below:

Team members can use anything you set up in the Brand Kit to create designs from inside the editor. To restrict them to using only colours and fonts that are in Brand Kits, set up Brand Controls.

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Types of Brand Kits

There are two types of Brand Kits:

Team and organisation Brand Kits

  • Created and managed by admins and brand designers
  • Shared with team members across your organisation
  • Used to maintain brand consistency across teams

Personal Brand Kits

  • Created by individual users (when enabled by an admin)
  • Private to the creator only
  • Used to store personal brand assets separate from team assets

This article covers team and organisation Brand Kits. To learn about personal Brand Kits, visit Create a personal Brand Kit.

What to expect

Canva Education (Campus): Only organisation admins in the Staff team can create and manage Brand Kits and Brand Templates. Brand Kits and templates created in Student teams can’t be shared across the organisation.

Note: In some Education teams, creating, editing, and managing Brand Kits is available only to the organisation admin and organisation brand designer roles.

Learn more about Education tiers, roles, and access.

Canva Enterprise and Canva for Districts: Organisation admins and brand designers can directly create, edit, and share Brand Kits without being assigned a team-level role.

Learn more about roles and permissions for Canva Teams, Canva Business, and Enterprise.

Personal Brand Kits: Admins can enable personal Brand Kits in Settings > Permissions > Brand. When enabled, team members can create a private Brand Kit that isn’t visible to admins or brand designers. Learn more about personal Brand Kits.

Limits per team:

  • Up to 1,000 Brand Kits, depending on your subscription.
  • Up to 2,000 brand assets per asset category in a Brand Kit
  • Personal Brand Kits don’t count towards your team’s 1,000 Brand Kit limit.
  • You can create one personal Brand Kit.

Learn more about your subscription on our pricing page.

Create a Brand Kit

People with the admin or brand designer role in Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, or Canva for Education can create multiple Brand Kits.

In Canva Enterprise, organisation admins and organisation brand designers can create and edit multiple Brand Kits for the whole organisation. Meanwhile, team admins and team brand designers are able to create and edit multiple Brand Kits for use in their respective teams within the organisation.

Create a Brand Kit

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand.
  2. On the Brand Kit dropdown, select
     Create new Brand Kit.
  3. Enter your new Brand Kit's name.
  4. Select Create.
  5. Set up your new Brand Kit by uploading logos, adding color palettes, or uploading fonts.

To duplicate an existing Brand Kit, select the

more icon on the Brand Kit’s thumbnail, and select
Duplicate.

Set up your Brand Kit

Each Brand Kit has their own landing page experience that enables the Brand Kit space to look and feel like your organisation’s brand. This provides you with visual, intuitive navigation across all asset categories, offering seamless access to all brand content, along with brand asset details on dedicated pages.

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand.
  2. On the
    dropdown, select the Brand Kit you’d like to set up.

Add an Icon and a Banner to your Brand Kit

  1. Next to your Brand Kit’s name, select
    (more icon).
  2. Select
    Edit details. From here, you can edit your Brand Kit’s Name, Icon, and Banner colours.
  3. To add an icon, select
    Upload files.
  4. Select the file you’d like to use as an icon, then select Open.
  5. To edit your banner colours, select the colour palettes below Main colour and Secondary colour.
  6. Select Save changes.

Customise your asset category tiles

  1. From the Brand Kit landing page, navigate across your brand assets by selecting them from either the asset category tiles, or the side menu.
  2. To edit your asset category tiles, hover your cursor over a tile and select
    (more icon).
  3. Select
    Update cover image. You’ll be redirected to the editor, where you can select an image from your
    Uploads.
  4. Select Save to finalise.

Set up your Brand Kit guidelines

  1. From the Brand Kit landing page, select Guidelines.
  2. Select Add guidelines. You’ll be directed to a doc file that you can update with your brand’s guidelines.
  3. Select Done to finish.

Brand Templates section

Every Brand Kit (except for personal Brand Kits) includes a fixed Brand Templates section. This section displays all Brand Templates added to that Brand Kit. The Brand Templates section:

  • appears automatically in every Brand Kit
  • can’t be moved, renamed, or removed
  • helps your team find approved templates faster

If you choose to use Canva AI, Brand Templates added to a Brand Kit can help Canva AI generate designs that match your brand more closely. This also helps with relevancy so your team can find the right content in the right places.

Add Brand Templates to a Brand Kit

Admins and brand designers can add Brand Templates to Brand Kits. You can add Brand Templates in a few different ways.

From the Brand Templates section in a Brand Kit

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand.
  2. Select your
    Brand Kit.
  3. Go to the Brand Templates section.
  4. Select
    and choose the Brand Templates you want to include.

From an existing Brand Template

  1. From the homepage side panel, select Brand.
  2. Go to All Brand Templates.
  3. On the template, select
    (More).
  4. Select Add to Brand Kit, then select the Brand Kit.

If a pop-up appears saying the template isn’t shared with all members, select Update Brand Template permissions (optional) to change who can access the template. You can also skip this to restrict access to the assets in the Brand Kit.

Add colour themes

Colour themes define how colours work together across backgrounds, elements, and text. When you apply a theme, these colours update together.

Use colour themes to apply your brand colours consistently across your designs.

You can generate colour themes from Brand Template suggestions or extract them from existing designs.

To create and apply colour themes, see Add and apply colour themes in Brand Kit.

You can give admins and designers easy access to brand assets by linking folders to your Brand Kit.

Linking folders to a Brand Kit is available for Canva Teams, Canva Business, Canva for Enterprise, Canva Education, and Canva for Nonprofits. Team admins, team brand designers, organisation admins, and organisation brand designers can set this up.

This is not available for personal Brand Kits.

Link folders to a Brand Kit

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand. Then select the
    Brand Kit tab.
  2. Select a Brand Kit, then select the asset section you want to link the folder to, such as Logos, Photos, Graphics, or Icons.
  3. In the section, select
    Add new. Select
    Link a folder.
  4. Select a folder from the Recent or All tab. You may also search for the folder in the search bar.
  5. Select the folder, then select Link folder.
  6. If a pop-up appears saying the folder isn’t shared with all members, select Update folder permissions (optional) to change who can access the folder. You can also skip this to restrict access to the assets in the Brand Kit.

After linking a folder, you can browse and preview Brand Kit assets (including linked folders) and use them in your designs. Learn how to browse and manage Brand Kit assets.

Sharing Brand Kits with the organisation

To keep designs on-brand across multiple teams, organisation brand designers can share Brand Kits with the whole organisation. This feature is available for Canva Enterprise and Canva for Districts.

To keep designs on-brand, organisation brand designers can share Brand Kits with the whole organisation. This feature is available for Canva Enterprise and Canva for Districts.

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand. Then select the Brand Kit tab.
  2. In the Brand Kit tab, select
    More on the Brand Kit you want to share with the organisation
  3. Select Share. In the drop-down, select the organisation. A pop-up will appear.
  4. After reading the pop-up, select Share.
  5. If your Brand Kit has linked folders, you’ll need to update the sharing permissions of the linked folders before you can share the Brand Kit with the organisation.

Sharing Brand Kits with specific teams

This feature is currently in beta for selected Canva Enterprise users.

You can share Brand Kits, templates, and linked folders with specific teams instead of everyone in your organisation. This gives you more control over who can access your brand assets.

  1. Go to the
    Brand tab.
  2. Select the Brand Kit, template, or folder you want to share.
  3. Select
    (more icon).
  4. Select
    Share.
  5. Under Other teams, select Add team.
  6. Select the teams you want to share with. (You can select up to 30 teams.)
  7. Select Share.

Manage shared Brand Kits owned by another team

Organisation brand designers can edit Brand Kits owned by different teams under the same organisation.

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
    Brand.
  2. From the dropdown, select the Brand Kit you want to edit.
  3. Select Edit in owning team.
  4. You’ll be directed to the Brand Kit. Select
    Edit in owning team.
  5. A pop-up confirmation will show that you’ll be switched teams. Select Switch team to confirm.
  6. Your current team will be switched with the team that owns the Brand Kit.

Receive notifications on design activity across your team. Go to Accessing and managing notifications for more details.

Delete a Brand Kit

  1. From the homepage side panel, select
     Brand.
  2. Select the
    Brand Kit.
  3. Select the
    (more icon) on the Brand Kit you want to delete from a folder.

4. Select

Delete to remove the Brand Kit.

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