Release notes.

AKTA 1.0.0 — first release

Barrier-first skincare theme for stores that want to show their evidence.

Highlights

• Evidence-led product page — an ingredient index, a claim beside the reference that supports it, and an accordion for composition, fit and shipping. Three arrangements: gallery split, full-bleed with an overlay card, and editorial.
• Variant picking without JavaScript — every colour swatch and size is a link to the exact variant, so the picker works on any connection and every state is shareable.
• Real filtering — availability, price, type, vendor and variant options through Shopify's Search & Discovery, in three arrangements: facet bar, sticky chips, or a sidebar panel.
• Predictive search, a cart drawer, and an account panel — all built on the browser's own dialog element, so the keyboard and screen readers work without extra code.
• An honest countdown — it runs to a date you set and then disappears. There is no repeating or evergreen timer, and none can be configured.
• 50 layout choices across 18 sections, so one theme covers several catalogue shapes.
• Fonts from Shopify's library through three pickers (heading, body, accent), responsive images, lazy loading, and colour schemes audited to WCAG contrast.

LUSTRE 1.0.0 — first release

Small-batch fashion theme for ranges made in limited runs.

Highlights

• Scarcity that tells the truth — stock counts come from Shopify's own inventory, shown only below a threshold you choose.
• Atelier storytelling — a lookbook, a process timeline, and a “from this roll” callout that pulls a real product's price and stock into an article.
• Product page for fit and cloth — separate variant controls with real swatches, rich media for video and 3D, local pickup, and Shop Pay Installments.
• Chrome gradient identity — a marquee, announcement bar and band built around one five-stop gradient that runs through the whole theme.
• Real filtering, predictive search, and a cart that works with JavaScript switched off.
• Fonts from Shopify's library through three pickers (heading, body, accent), responsive images, lazy loading, and colour schemes audited to WCAG contrast.

Compatibility

Both themes are Online Store 2.0, built on Shopify's Skeleton theme, and support app blocks, Custom Liquid sections and blocks, Markets country/currency selection, and Translate & Adapt for both storefront text and theme editor labels.

1.0.1 — pre-submission pass (14 Aug 2026)

Applies to AKTA and LUSTRE.

Fonts

• Every face now comes from Shopify's font library through three pickers — Heading, Body and Accent. The theme ships no font files of its own.
• The 500/600 weights the designs use are declared explicitly, so no cut is synthesised.
• Font families are declared in one place only. They had also been hardcoded in the stylesheet, which loads after the settings — so the pickers had never actually changed anything in the editor.

Search

• Search results are paginated instead of capped. The page reported "16 results" and showed three, with no way to reach the fourth.

Product page

• Quantity field styled: it had no rule of its own and fell back to a browser box inside the bordered stepper.
• Add to bag and the accelerated checkout button now fill the buy column and have space between them.
• Promoted titles sized correctly. A product page needs exactly one <h1>, and the design's <h2> rules were never updated to match — titles rendered at body size in two layouts.

Cards

• Card photos are links, matching their titles.

Accessibility

• The accelerated checkout button follows the theme palette; Shopify's default blue failed contrast at 3.59:1 on white.
• LUSTRE's footer no longer restates its own colour scheme. Doing so inverted it under the dark scheme and left the labels at 2.55:1.
• Collection product titles are <h2>, so the heading order no longer skips a level.

Collection

• New collection.sidebar template: the filter panel with the product grid beside it.

Attribution

• powered_by_link renders in the footer, unaltered.

1.0.2 — 16 Aug 2026

LUSTRE

• Purchase options on the product page. The buy box now offers One time alongside any selling plan a product carries, and the chosen plan is named on the line in both the cart page and the cart drawer. Selling plans are a Theme Store requirement and LUSTRE had no support for them at all.

AKTA

• The cart drawer names the selling plan on a line, matching the cart page. It had only ever shown the variant.
• Documentation corrected: section 6 previously described stock-scarcity labels that AKTA has never had. AKTA has no "n left" badge and no way to display one. That feature is LUSTRE's.
• The Formulas section is a real grid again. Its cards were pinned to a fixed 420px inside a horizontal scroller, which on a phone meant a sideways drag holding cards wider than the screen. The carousel layout keeps its scroller above 720px.
• Five sections shipped an unsubstituted placeholder where the product card belonged — the collection grid, search results, related, complementary and suggestions. Fixed, with a build gate so a placeholder can never reach a theme again.