Pick a look

Updated September 5, 2026 · 3 min

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   Know the seven

   Fresh is the clean, all-sans default for most businesses. Journal is magazine-like — serif headlines, generous air, hairline rules. Signal has product-launch energy: dark anchor bands, glow, big numbers. Atelier is quiet luxury — high-contrast serif, huge whitespace, square corners. Hearth is warm and handmade: terracotta and olive, soft arches, pill buttons. Confetti is bright and bold with rounded type and hard-offset cards. Noir is dark by default, with a gold accent and an elegant serif — restaurants and studios love it.

   Tip

   Every look ships with two or three palettes and font pairings chosen for it. Pick the look first; the palette grid then shows only what suits it, and “Show all palettes” lifts that filter.
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   Pick one when you create the site

   The "Pick a look" step of the create-site wizard shows the seven cards with a live thumbnail each. "Let Messiah choose" is the default: the AI reads your description and picks the look that fits the business, the way a designer would. Choose a card yourself when you already know the direction you want — Messiah then builds every page in that look.

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   Switch it any time in the editor

   The "Look" section at the top of the editor's Design tab holds the same seven cards. Tapping one restyles every page at once — free, instant, and undoable. The "Current:" line names your look and shows "(customized)" once you have changed a control under it; tapping the same look again resets those controls to the look's defaults. You can also just ask the chat: "make it feel more like a magazine" switches the look for you.

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   Or show us a site you like

   If you have a site whose feel you want, skip the cards: choose "Match a site I like" in the wizard (or "Match a reference site" in the Design tab) and drop in a screenshot — PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 8 MB. Messiah reads its character — light or dark, type, density, corners, color temperature — and applies the closest look, palette and fonts. Nothing from the screenshot is copied into your site, and the image is deleted two weeks after its last use.