How to set up your BRAND KIT in Canva (2026 Canva Brand Kit Tutorial)

About this video

A walkthrough of setting up and using a Canva Brand Kit, which stores logos, colors, fonts, brand voice, photos, graphics, icons, and components in one place so designs stay on-brand. Kate Hayes says the free plan only allows three brand colors, so the full features shown require Canva Pro, which she says allows up to 100 brand kits. She shows starting a kit from scratch, auto-generating one by entering a website or uploading a PDF of brand guidelines, and adding logos as transparent PNG or SVG files. She explains color palettes (individual colors added by hex code or gradient, including ideas from canva.com/colors) versus color themes, where Canva assigns colors to background, elements, and text. She covers setting title, subtitle, and heading font styles, uploading custom fonts, adding a brand voice description for use with Magic Write’s change-voice feature, renaming the photos/graphics/icons categories for her own use (stock photos, brand photos, YouTube thumbnail assets), and using components — reusable elements edited once at the source and then updated across every page and design where they appear. She closes by demoing applying brand colors, fonts, and photos to a template with one click or ‘change all.’

Key takeaways

• Free Canva limits the Brand Kit to three colors; full features require Canva Pro, which allows up to 100 brand kits
• Start a kit automatically by entering your website or uploading PDF brand guidelines, then fill in missing assets manually
• Upload logos as transparent PNG or SVG so they layer cleanly and can be recolored and scaled
• Color palettes are single colors for elements; color themes assign colors to background, elements, and text together
• Components edited at the source can update every instance across all pages and designs at once

Episode details: published July 14, 2026 · 21:17 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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