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title: "Can I use a custom theme with Site Studio?"
date: "2019-09-30T16:13:40+00:00"
summary: "Customize your Site Studio experience with a custom theme. Learn how to create a sub-theme based on Site Studio's minimal theme for optimal compatibility and flexibility in your Drupal website design."
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url: "/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/help/65716-can-i-use-custom-theme-site-studio"
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Yes. You can use a custom theme with Site Studio. We recommend creating a custom theme as a sub-theme of the Site Studio minimal theme.

You can use a custom theme with Site Studio.  We recommended that you create your custom theme as a sub-theme of the Site Studio minimal theme. For more information, see [Modify your website theme](/drupal-starter-kits/add-ons/site-studio/modify-your-website-theme "Modify your website theme") and [creating sub-themes on Drupal.org](https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/theming-drupal-8/creating-a-drupal-8-sub-theme-or-sub-theme-of-sub-theme).