Change utility bar and announcement bar color for dawn theme

Topic summary

A user needed to change the Dawn theme’s utility/announcement bar to black with white text, as adjusting scheme colors wasn’t working.

Solutions Provided:

Two community members offered CSS code solutions:

  • Navigate to Online Store → Theme → Edit code
  • Locate the base.css file
  • Add custom CSS targeting .utility-bar__grid.utility-bar__grid--3-col with background: black !important and appropriate text color styling

Outcome:

The issue was resolved — the user confirmed the CSS solution worked successfully. The discussion included screenshots showing the before state and the custom CSS section being modified.

Summarized with AI on November 10. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hi, I need help with changing the utility bar/announcement bar color to black with white text. I tried adjusting the scheme colors but nothing seems to be happening.

Is there a way I can change the whole strip to black?

Currently, this is what’s in my announcement bar’s custom css section:

Hello @kay_png

Please share the store link.

Here:

https://d4d43a.myshopify.com/

Hi @kay_png

This is Henry from PageFly - Landing Page Builder App

You can try this code by following these steps:

Step 1: Go to Online Store->Theme->Edit code.

Step 2: Search file base.css

Step 3: Paste the below code at bottom of the file → Save

.page-width.utility-bar__grid.utility-bar__grid–3-col {

background: black !important;

}

Hope that my solution works for you.

Best regards,

Henry | PageFly

Hello @kay_png

Add the below CSS in base.css file.

body .utility-bar__grid.utility-bar__grid--3-col {
background: #000;
}

OUTPUT:

Thanks

It worked! Thank you!

It worked! Thank you!