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Form Styling & Themes – Customize Your Form | Uplup

Make your forms match your brand with Uplup’s extensive styling options. Choose from 24 pre-built themes or customize every visual element including colors, fonts, backgrounds, and buttons.

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Accessing Design Settings

To customize your form’s appearance:

  1. Open your form in the builder
  2. Click the “Design” tab in the top navigation
  3. The design panel shows all styling options organized into tabs
  • What to capture: The Design tab with theme presets and customization options.
  • Show: Theme gallery at top, and tabs for Text, Fields, Form, Finish Page.

Theme Presets

Uplup includes 24 professionally designed themes. Click any theme to instantly apply its complete style – colors, fonts, and backgrounds all change at once.

Theme Categories

  • Minimal – Clean, distraction-free designs
  • Modern – Contemporary, professional looks
  • Bold & Vibrant – Eye-catching, colorful themes
  • Dark Themes – Dark backgrounds with light text
  • Corporate – Professional, business-appropriate
  • Playful – Fun, engaging designs
  • Nature Inspired – Earthy, organic colors

Using Themes as Starting Points

Select a theme that’s close to what you want, then customize individual settings. Your customizations override the theme defaults.


Color Customization

Fine-tune every color to match your brand.

Primary/Accent Color

The main brand color used for buttons, highlights, progress bars, and interactive elements.

Text Colors

  • Heading Color – Color for section headings
  • Body Text Color – Color for labels and descriptions
  • Link Color – Color for clickable links
  • Error Color – Color for validation error messages

Background Colors

  • Form Background – Main form container background
  • Field Background – Input field background
  • Page Background – Background behind the form
  • What to capture: The color customization section.
  • Show: Color pickers for primary color, text colors, and backgrounds.

Typography Settings

Control fonts and text styling throughout your form.

Font Family

Choose from 150+ Google Fonts including:

  • Sans-serif: Inter, Open Sans, Roboto, Lato, Poppins
  • Serif: Georgia, Playfair Display, Merriweather
  • Display: Montserrat, Raleway, Oswald

Font Sizes

  • Heading Size – Size for section titles (10px – 72px)
  • Body Size – Size for descriptions and labels (10px – 32px)

Font Weights

  • Light (300)
  • Normal (400)
  • Bold (700)

Background Options

Set the background behind your form for visual impact.

Solid Color

Simple single-color background. Works well for embedded forms.

Image Background

Upload a custom image as the landing page background. Drag and drop to upload.

Split Layout

Display an image panel alongside your form:

  • Image position: Left or Right
  • Split ratio: 40/60, 50/50, or 60/40

Button Styling

Customize submit and navigation buttons.

Button Colors

  • Background Color – Button fill color
  • Text Color – Button label color
  • Border Color – Button border (if applicable)

Button Shape

  • Square – Sharp corners
  • Rounded – Slightly rounded corners
  • Pill – Fully rounded ends

Button Size

  • XS – Extra small (12px font)
  • Small – Compact (14px font)
  • Medium – Standard size (16px font)
  • Large – Prominent (18px font)
  • XL – Extra large (20px font)

Button Alignment

  • Left, Center, or Right alignment

Field Appearance

Style the input fields themselves.

Field Border

  • Border Width – None, Thin, Medium, or Thick
  • Border Color – Color of field borders
  • Border Radius – Roundness of corners (0-50px)

Field Sizing

  • Size: Small, Medium, or Large
  • Shape: Square, Rounded, or Pill

Checkbox & Radio Styling

Customize the accent color for checkboxes and radio buttons to match your brand.


Layout Options

Form Width

Control the maximum width of your form (300px – 1600px, or 100% full width). Default: 700px.

Layout Types

  • Seamless – Borderless, transparent background
  • Container – Bordered form with shadow
  • Split Layout – Form with side image panel

Spacing

  • Form Padding – Space inside form container (0-100px)
  • Question Label Spacing – Gap below labels

Tips for Great Form Design

  1. Match your brand – Use your brand colors and fonts for consistency
  2. Ensure readability – High contrast between text and background
  3. Keep it simple – Clean forms convert better
  4. Test on mobile – Preview your form on different screen sizes

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