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Sylius Starter

Culture theme

Culture (Culture & Co on the storefront) is built for culture, games and entertainment shops selling books, comics and manga, board games, video games, musical instruments and collectibles: a bright, modern store in white and warm light grey, with ink type in Plus Jakarta Sans, a sunny yellow for the calls to action and the badges, and photographs everywhere. The homepage is built for merchandising: shelves as photo tiles, offer banners with their discount and themed selections from the booksellers.

Desktop (1440 px)

SchemeHomepageProduct pageCart
LightCulture & Co storefront homepage on desktop, light schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on desktop, light schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on desktop, light scheme
DarkCulture & Co storefront homepage on desktop, dark schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on desktop, dark schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on desktop, dark scheme

Wide screen (2560 px)

SchemeHomepageProduct pageCart
LightCulture & Co storefront homepage on a wide screen, light schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on a wide screen, light schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on a wide screen, light scheme
DarkCulture & Co storefront homepage on a wide screen, dark schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on a wide screen, dark schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on a wide screen, dark scheme

Mobile (390 px)

SchemeHomepageProduct pageCart
LightCulture & Co storefront homepage on mobile, light schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on mobile, light schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on mobile, light scheme
DarkCulture & Co storefront homepage on mobile, dark schemeProduct page in Culture & Co on mobile, dark schemeCulture & Co cart containing a product on mobile, dark scheme
  • Palette — white (#FFFFFF) and warm light grey (#F5F4F1, #EFEEEA) with ink type (#16161A), a sunny yellow (#F9B43A) behind dark text for buttons, badges, the cart counter and the logo mark, ink links underlined and turning amber (#8A5300) on hover, and a deep blue (#0B1E3D) for the video games offer.
  • Dark scheme — the store after closing time: charcoal (page #121214, surfaces #1A1A1E), paper type and the same yellow, which also becomes the colour of hovered links and focus rings.
  • Typography — Plus Jakarta Sans (SIL Open Font License, variable weight, shipped in assets/shop/fonts/) for the logo, headings and body copy alike: bold headings, small grey eyebrows in spaced capitals.
  • Photographs — the hero, the offer banners and the selection cards ship with the theme (assets/shop/images/), generated with Ollama (x/flux2-klein) and stored as WebP. A contributed hero image replaces the theme photograph.
  • Header — a light grey top bar (free delivery, free returns, a link to the contact page), then the yellow hexagon mark and the Culture & Co wordmark on the left, the account links and the cart (with a yellow counter) on the right, and the category menu on a row of its own, underlined in yellow when hovered.
  • Homepage — a hero banner the width of the page: the copy on the left (eyebrow, headline, lead, a yellow call to action) over a veil fading into the photograph of a sunlit living room with books, headphones and a game controller. The category tiles (import collections) show the photograph of each shelf with its name and an arrow. The offers of the moment (theme_offers hookable) are four banners with a yellow discount badge, a title and a Discover link over their photograph, and the booksellers’ picks (theme_promise hookable) four dark photo cards with a tag, a title and a Discover link. Banners and cards lead to the shelves of the store menu (through the taxon menu component), so they follow the catalog. The eight latest products close the page; the deals and new collection blocks are hidden.
  • Product cards — the picture stands whole on a light grey tile, the name and the price in bold below; two products per row on phones.
  • Footer — a light grey reassurance band (free delivery, free returns, secure payment, a team at your service), then the wordmark, the Sylius links and a notice.
  • Checkout — the checkout header uses the Culture & Co wordmark and responsive category navigation.
  • Translations — every Culture-specific text lives in its own culture translation domain (translations/culture.en.yaml and culture.fr.yaml).
  • Accessibility — visible focus rings (ink, yellow in the dark scheme), text alternatives for the hero photograph, white text on darkened photographs, and yellow only behind dark text.

Demo catalog

Section titled “Demo catalog”

The screenshots above show a demo catalog of eighteen books, comics, board games, video games, instruments and collectibles from a fictional cultural store, on six shelves (Books, Comics & Manga, Board Games, Video Games, Music Instruments, Collectibles), shipped as the culture dataset of sylius-starter/datasets (src/Datasets/datasets/culture/: products.yaml, collections.yaml, and in media/ a photo of each product on the coloured paper of its shelf and a photo of each shelf, generated with Ollama). Three house universes run across the shelves, for thematic merchandising: the Ashfall saga (the novel, the strategy game and the collectible dragon), Neon Koi (the manga and its enamel pins) and Starfall Odyssey (the collector’s edition and its art print). Create a shop from it with the import package, into the default channel:

Terminal window
castor sylius:import:shop:create culture
castor sylius:import:fixtures:generate --project=culture --subdomain=""
castor sylius:import:fixtures:load --project=culture

No AI call is made: products.yaml and collections.yaml point at the photos of the dataset media/. The shop menu then lists the six shelves; castor sylius:import:delete culture removes the catalog. The import keeps the products already in the channel and gives the items creation dates in the past, so on a store loaded with the default fixtures the latest products may still show clothing: run castor app:db:fixtures app first to start from a store without products.

Install it with:

Terminal window
castor sylius:theme:setup culture