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Acanthus release notes
What's new
Every version of Acanthus, newest first. Updates arrive through Shopify, with your settings carried over.
Version 1.0.0: First release
Acanthus is built for beauty brands: skincare, make-up and clinical lines. It is designed around the question every beauty shopper asks before buying: will this work for me?
Four styles, one theme
- Acanthus: luxury skincare, with warm neutrals, a classic serif and slow, cinematic motion.
- Calla: clean and botanical skincare, with soft greens, rounded corners and a calm pace.
- Carmine: color cosmetics, with crimson and blush, a fashion serif in capitals and bold motion.
- Celadon: clinical skincare, with mineral white and deep teal, a precise sans serif and restrained motion.
- Every style has every section and feature. A style only sets the starting fonts, colors, corners, motion and home page.
Help shoppers find their match
- Shade finder: shades shown on skin, with the undertone described. Add several products to one finder, each with its own shades, and shoppers switch between them with tabs.
- Shade lab, shade atlas and a coverage slider for foundations and tints.
- Skin quiz and concern finder that lead to the right products.
- Routine builder that orders the steps and adds the whole routine to the cart.
- Look builder: one product per step, and the full look goes to the cart at once.
Show proof on the product page
- Measured results, each with a line saying how it was measured.
- Results timeline, ingredient story with doses, a "free from" list and a formula dosage section.
- Before and after slider.
- Reviews hub where shoppers filter to skin like their own. It reads ratings from any review app that uses Shopify's standard reviews data.
- Provenance ledger and a breakdown of what the price pays for.
Raise the order value
- Ritual sets and bundles priced below their parts, volume pricing and subscribe and save. Plans come from a subscriptions app such as Shopify Subscriptions.
- Pre-order and personal engraving on the product page.
- Cart drawer with a rewards bar with three goals, free samples the shopper picks, gift wrap and an order note, a delivery date estimate, recommendations and a link to share the cart.
- Sticky buy bar on phones.
- Promotion countdown that only counts down to a date the merchant sets and hides when the date passes.
Browse and discover
- Mega menu that previews each collection's products, with quick add.
- Predictive search, filtering and sorting with swatch filters, quick view, recently viewed products and product recommendations.
- Collection layouts: classic grid, lookbook, shade atlas, ritual rail and more.
- Lookbooks with shoppable hotspots, video reels and press logos.
Design and accessibility
- Light and dark mode with its own palette for each. Shoppers switch from the header, and films can have a night version.
- Heading, accent and body fonts from Shopify's font library.
- Motion that pauses off screen and respects reduced-motion settings.
- Keyboard navigation and screen reader labels throughout.
- Right-to-left support.
Languages and templates
- Storefront and editor translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
- 91 sections you can add anywhere, 12 theme blocks and alternate templates for products, collections and pages.
Works with
- Shopify's Search & Discovery app for filters.
- Review apps that write Shopify's standard reviews data.
- Subscription apps through selling plans.
- Combined listings.
- App blocks on product pages and in the product and proof sections, plus an Apps section you can add to any page.