Why aren't my color swatches appearing on Impulse theme?

Topic summary

Color swatches in the Shopify Impulse theme are not appearing for product variants.

  • Action taken: PNG files were added and named to align with each variant’s “colour” value.
  • Result: Swatches still do not display, even after refreshing pages and testing on new devices.

Key terms:

  • Color swatches: visual color options linked to product variants.
  • Variants: different versions of a product (e.g., color).

Status: Unresolved; no solutions or further steps provided yet. The discussion remains open with the user seeking guidance on why the swatches are not rendering.

Summarized with AI on January 16. AI used: gpt-5.

I have added the png files which align with the ‘colour’ name of the variants.

However they still don’t appear even after refreshing pages and checking on new devices.