Colors Theme: How to make announcement bar text bigger?

Topic summary

Goal: Increase the announcement bar (top notification banner) text size in the Shopify Colors theme.

What happened:

  • Initial suggestion: Add CSS to base.css: .announcement-bar__message { font-size: 20px !important }. User couldn’t find base.css.
  • Alternatives proposed: theme.scss or theme.css. User’s Assets showed colors.css.liquid; adding the first rule there didn’t work.
  • Fix provided: Use a more specific selector targeting the announcement bar text:
    #shopify-section-announcement-bar > div > div.text > p { font-size: 70px !important }
  • User confirmed this worked.

How to apply (outcome):

  • Admin > Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit code > Assets > open colors.css.liquid (or the main CSS file).
  • Paste the rule above and adjust the font-size value to the desired size.

Status: Resolved. Attachments (asset list and screenshot) were shared but not essential to the solution.

Summarized with AI on February 17. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi I’m using the Colors Theme.

How can I make the announcement bar text bigger?

Hi @burak07

Just do the following. Adjust the “20px” to the size you want.

  1. Go to your Admin store > Online store > Themes > Click Actions > Edit code

  2. Open the base.css file under your Asset folder.

.announcement-bar__message {
font-size: 20px !important
}

I don’t have base.css file under Asset folder.

Oh. Theme.scss or Theme.css

I have theme.liquid in Layout folder.

and this is the Assets folder;

May I have you website?

KraZy DeCo

It says colors.css but try placing the code to your colors.css.liquid.

I did it like that but it didn’t work

Sorry about that, I am calling the wrong one. Please replace the code with the code below.

#shopify-section-announcement-bar > div > div.text > p {
font-size: 70px !important
}

It did work! Thank you so much!

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