Customizing AkarUI Components to Match Your Brand

AkarUI components are designed to be highly customizable, allowing you to match them to your brand's colors, typography, and overall style. In this article, we'll explore how to customize AkarUI components to create a cohesive and branded user interface.

Styling with Props

Most AkarUI components accept props that allow you to customize their appearance. For example, the GlowingButton component accepts a `color` prop that allows you to change the color of the button's glow effect:

<GlowingButton color="#FF5733">Custom Color Button</GlowingButton>

Using CSS Classes

You can also use CSS classes to customize the appearance of AkarUI components. Most components accept a `className` prop that allows you to add custom CSS classes:

<GlowingButton className="my-custom-button">Custom Class Button</GlowingButton>

Then, in your CSS file:

.my-custom-button {

/* Custom styles here */

font-family: 'Your Brand Font', sans-serif;

text-transform: uppercase;

}

Creating a Theme

You can create a theme for your application by defining a set of colors, sizes, and other properties that you can reuse across components:

// theme.ts

export const theme = {

colors: {

primary: '#FF5733',

secondary: '#33FF57',

accent: '#5733FF',

background: '#FFFFFF',

text: '#333333',

},

sizes: {

sm: 'px-4 py-2 text-sm',

md: 'px-6 py-3 text-base',

lg: 'px-8 py-4 text-lg',

},

};

// Using the theme

import { theme } from '@/theme';

<GlowingButton color={theme.colors.primary}>Themed Button</GlowingButton>

Modifying Component Code

For more extensive customizations, you can modify the component's code directly. Since AkarUI components are provided as code snippets, you can copy the code and make any changes you need:

// Modified GlowingButton component

import { useState } from 'react';

import Link from 'next/link';

interface GlowingButtonProps {

children: React.ReactNode;

href?: string;

onClick?: () => void;

color?: string;

size?: 'sm' | 'md' | 'lg';

className?: string;

// Added prop for custom border radius

borderRadius?: string;

}

export function CustomGlowingButton({

children,

href,

onClick,

color = '#f0f',

size = 'md',

className,

// Default to rounded-full

borderRadius = 'rounded-full',

}: GlowingButtonProps) {

const [isHovered, setIsHovered] = useState(false);

const sizeClasses = {

sm: 'px-4 py-2 text-sm',

md: 'px-6 py-3 text-base',

lg: 'px-8 py-4 text-lg',

};

const buttonClasses = `relative inline-flex items-center justify-center ${borderRadius} font-medium transition-all duration-300 overflow-hidden ${sizeClasses[size]} ${className || ''}`;

// Rest of the component code...

}

Conclusion

AkarUI components are designed to be customized to match your brand's style. Whether you're using props, CSS classes, themes, or modifying the component code directly, you can create a cohesive and branded user interface with AkarUI.