Stand out with San Juan, a new free theme and striking design

Mar 17, 2022 by

Diane Kern

Strengthen your website's appearance with bold new elements

An all-new free theme has landed in the Design Studio! San Juan changes things up with unique fonts and color palettes for creating a vibrant website that is both fun and eye-catching. And you can’t help but notice that this sleek design doesn’t cut any corners - it simply removes them! See what we’re talking about with some of our favorite elements listed below.

See what makes San Juan stand out...

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Buttons that round out the new look

Taking a step away from common angled features, San Juan uses circular elements in its custom image buttons and linked HTML buttons. These circular motifs add attention-grabbing elements to any website.

San Juan design example: Regular and alternative button styling options.

When using a Buttons section, you can set the section's styling to show default buttons that use large images or preset illustrations. San Juan also offers alternate button styling options. This alternate style removes the image and condenses the button into a smaller style that features an arrow laid on top of a circle. The very same alternate style appears when creating hyperlinked text buttons or a quick link in a site's Feature Region or Headline Section!

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Bold color palettes

Discover bold primary color options and how they take center stage in prominent spots throughout the theme's design. These colors are paired with a series of neutral grays to complement every section. If you’re looking for an exact shade to match your brand, simply change the primary color using the Custom Colors option in the Design Studio. Easy enough!

San Juan design examples: Purple, yellow and green.
 

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Contrasting font types

The San Juan theme uses contrasting typefaces with a modern take on traditional styles. Bold titles decorate pages, sections, and the website headers with a clear clean-edge font style. Subtitles and hyperlink buttons use the same font set in all capital letters. Regular text copy has a more traditional look with slight projections (also known as serifs) detailing the ends of each letter. The two styles help visually distinguish main elements across a website.

San Juan design example: Unique font combinations offer visual distinctions on your pages.

When the Archdioceses of Los Angeles and Cincinnati found out that their local NFL teams would be headed to Super Bowl LVI, the archbishops saw a unique opportunity and thus #BishopsBigGame was born! In order to share more about this friendly wager, BishopsBigGame.com was created using the new San Juan website theme.

While each archbishop was rooting for their respective team, they also placed a friendly wager on the outcome. Both archbishops offered delicious treats from local eateries for their part of the wager and encouraged their own diocesan communities to participate, by sending monetary donations that would directly benefit the Catholic Education Fund in each archdiocese. Both Archbishop José H. Gomez of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati kicked off the fundraising by each donating $1,000 to the joint fund (powered by eCatholic Payments).

In the end, #BishopsBigGame raised over $22,000 for Catholic Schools in the Archdioceses of Cincinnati and Los Angeles, thanks to the generosity of people like you!