Manage Multiple Brand Kits
Keep a separate brand kit for each client, sub-brand or show, switch between them in one click, and share them with everyone on your team.
If you make graphics for more than one brand — a roster of clients, a couple of sub-brands, a show that looks nothing like the parent channel — you don't have to keep re-typing colors. Each brand gets its own kit: a complete brand, colors and type and background and logos and motion, saved under a name. Switching kits re-skins every template in the library at once.
#Overview
A kit is the whole brand kit described in Set Up Your Brand Kit — the same 7 color slots, 3 font slots, background style and logo — bundled and named. One kit is always active, and the active kit is what the studio, your exports and your MCP renders use. Everything else about the studio behaves exactly as it always has; the only new idea is that there can be more than one of these bundles and you choose which one you're in.
Kits belong to the team, not to the person who made them. Everyone on the team sees the same set and can edit any of them, which is the point: an agency's Acme kit should be the agency's, not locked inside one designer's browser. Which kit you are standing in is personal, though — your teammate switching to Acme doesn't yank your screen out from under you, and the kit you were last in follows you to your other machines.
#How Many Kits You Get
Kits come out of your plan's allowance, shared across the whole team:
| Plan | Brand kits |
|---|---|
| Free | 1 |
| Founding | 1 |
| Creator | 1 |
| Studio | 5 |
| Agency | 10 |
The allowance is enforced in the database, so the studio can never offer you a kit the server would refuse. You can see where you stand at a glance: a small counter beside the kit picker reads 2 / 5, and it turns amber when you reach the ceiling. At that point New, Duplicate and the style-guide Import dim, and clicking one explains that the plan is full and offers the upgrade rather than letting you name a kit and then refusing it. Signed out there is only ever one kit, because there is no account to store the others against — signing in free is what unlocks the rest of the allowance.
#Step-by-Step Instructions
#1. Find the kit picker
Open the Brand workspace (Brand settings in the edit panel on the right). The kit picker sits at the top of the workspace, next to the buttons for New, Duplicate, Rename and Delete. Once you have more than one kit, a compact switcher also appears in the studio sidebar under the Brand settings button, so you can change brands without opening the workspace at all.
#2. Create a kit
Click New, name it after the brand it's for — the client, the sub-brand, the show — and it starts from the HeyMotion defaults. Or click Duplicate to start from the kit you're in, which is usually faster when two brands share a house style and differ in an accent color.
Duplicate copies what's saved, not what's on screen. If you have unsaved edits in the workspace, save them first if you want them in the copy.
#3. Switch between kits
Pick a kit from either switcher. The studio, the preview and the workspace all move to that brand together. If you have unsaved brand edits when you switch, HeyMotion asks first — switching discards them, and cancelling puts the picker back where it was.
#4. Rename or delete
Rename changes the label only; nothing about the brand itself moves. Delete removes the kit and everything in it — colors, type, logos, motion. Videos you've already exported are files on your disk and are unaffected.
A team always keeps at least one kit, so Delete is greyed out when only one is left. Delete the kit you don't want after creating the one you do.
#Options and Settings
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Kit picker | Top of the Brand workspace | Switches the active kit |
| Quick switcher | Studio sidebar, under Brand settings | Same switch without opening the workspace; appears once you have 2+ kits |
| New | Workspace header | Creates a kit from the HeyMotion defaults |
| Duplicate | Workspace header | Creates a kit from the saved state of the current one |
| Rename | Workspace header | Renames the current kit |
| Delete | Workspace header | Deletes the current kit; disabled when it's the last one |
#Importing a Style Guide
Uploading a style guide creates a new kit named after the guide and switches you into it — it does not overwrite the kit you're standing in. Importing a client's brand book almost never means "replace my own brand", so your other kits are left exactly as they were. See Import Your Brand from a Style Guide.
#Where Kits Are Saved
Signed in, your kits live in the cloud against your team, so they're on every device you sign in from and visible to everyone on the team. Signed out, the studio keeps a single kit in your browser's localStorage — enough to work with, but a second kit needs an account. See Teams and Seats for how teams work.
Name kits after the brand, not the project — "Acme" outlives "Acme Q3 launch", and you'll be reading these names in a dropdown for months.
#Best Practices
Give each client their own kit rather than editing one kit back and forth; the whole value is that last month's client work re-renders correctly when they come back. On a team, agree who owns a kit's look before a campaign — everyone can edit every kit, which is convenient and also means changes are shared instantly.
#Common Mistakes
Editing the wrong kit is the one to watch for. Check the picker at the top of the workspace before you start changing colors — the kit name is always visible there, and in the sidebar switcher while you're working. The other one is expecting Duplicate to include unsaved edits: it copies the saved kit, so press Save brand first.
#Related Articles
Start with Set Up Your Brand Kit, fill a kit fast with Import Your Brand from a Style Guide, and see Teams and Seats for who shares your kits.