How to create a Google Slides theme

Creating a Google Slides theme lets you easily reuse the same font, layout and colour styling on every new slide deck. Here’s how you do it!

In this video (5min), I show you how to setup a theme in Google Slides, including font and background colours, and how to apply the theme to any new slide deck:

Here’s what’s covered:
0:30 Create new Google Slide doc
0:56 Edit Google Slide theme
1:16 Apply a background colour
1:34 Change text colour
2:07 ‘Highlight section’ background colour
2:40 Select a layout
3:02 Rename the new theme (eg ‘Producing Paradise branding’)
3:23 Import theme into another document
3:50 Producing Paradise style guide
4:13 Producing Paradise Instagram styling

Google Slides Theme Creation Steps

To create a new theme:

1. Open a new slide deck
2. Go to the ‘Slide’ menu then ‘Edit theme’
3. Update the styling on each of the layouts
4. Rename the theme to something descriptive

Then when creating any other slide deck in future:

1. Go to the ‘Slide’ menu then select ‘Change theme’
2. Click ‘Import theme’
3. Apply the theme you created
4. Use the layout selector to pick a layout for each slide

Massive thanks to Aaron Puls for creating the Producing Paradise brand 🎨✨ Read more about the process we followed for that in our post: Producing our branding