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# Product Variant

You add variants to a product that comes in more than one option, such as size or color. Each combination of option values for a product can be a variant for that product. For more information, see [Variants](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/variants).

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Halo offers 2 type for Product Variant: Dropdown and Square / Rectangle / Swatch. For more information, see [Swatch](/halo-docs/theme-settings/general/swatch-variant-customization-option.md).
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## Setup Color Variant

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Halo offers 3 type for Color Variant: Basic Color, Advanced Color and Variant Image.
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<figure><img src="/files/cUtzGT99ND67ErDOPblz" alt=""><figcaption><p>1. Basic Color</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/JB54Aq30bmehxkUojXQD" alt=""><figcaption><p>2. Advanced Color</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/jJypK70OzCB2kiw0yRhk" alt=""><figcaption><p>3. Variant Image</p></figcaption></figure>

### Basic Color

1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Online Store** -> **Themes**.
2. Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click **Customize**.
3. Click **Theme settings ->** **General.**
4. Scroll to **Swatch** and choose **Type** as **Basic Color (Use Color Name)**.

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You need to make sure your color name match with the color name at: <http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colornames.asp>. If the color name doesn't exist on the w3schools website, it will not display on your site.
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### Advanced Color

1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Online Store** -> **Themes**.
2. Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click **Customize**.
3. Click **Theme settings ->** **General.**
4. Scroll to **Swatch** and choose **Type** as **Advance Color (Use Image With PNG Format)**.

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After that, please upload image with the same name as the variant color name (Go to Settings → Files -> Upload Files).

**Naming convention**: Lower cap and use a hyphen "-" to replace white space if your color image name has the white space. For example: your special color will have this name: "Holo Rainbow", you will upload the png image is holo-rainbow\.png
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### Variant Image

1. From your Shopify admin, go to **Online Store** -> **Themes**.
2. Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click **Customize**.
3. Click **Theme settings ->** **General.**
4. Scroll to **Swatch** and choose **Type** as **Advance Color (Use Variant Image)**.

![](/files/vFKBcamIf2FmYCaIgOl1)

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For more information, see [Adding images to product variants](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/product-media/add-images-variants).
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