How to change the menu color on dawn theme?

Topic summary

Changing Dawn theme navigation styling: users sought to set the menu color to #a01f1f and make the bar full width. Dawn is a Shopify theme; base.css is the main stylesheet, and header.liquid is the header template file.

Menu background vs text: initial CSS changed the header background or only text color. The working fix was adding to assets/base.css: .header__inline-menu{background:#a01f1f;} and, if needed for text, .header__menu-item span{color:#a01f1f;}

Full-width navigation: edit sections/header.liquid to remove the “page-width” wrapper (or replace the markup per newer Dawn versions). Then add in base.css: .header__inline-menu{width:100%; text-align:center;} Multiple users confirmed this achieved a full-width bar.

Single menu item color: a user shared CSS targeting position with nth-child, e.g., .header__inline-menu .list-menu li:nth-child(1) a{color:red !important;}. Others noted it may fail if menu order or HTML structure differs; URLs were requested for specific fixes.

Third‑party menu app: for Buddha Mega Menu, the working selector was li.buddha-menu-item:first-child a{color:#C51E3A;}, which solved one case.

Outcomes: several solutions confirmed (“worked”). Open items remain where users have side white gaps or need item‑specific colors in different structures. Images were shared but not essential to the solutions.

Summarized with AI on December 28. AI used: gpt-5.

Hey @MarinaPetrovic do you know, how can I change only one (the first) menu item’s font’s color?