Theme Factory vs Brand.yml

Theme Factory

By Anthropic

Apply professional color and font themes to slides, docs, and landing pages instantly.

Brand.yml

By Posit

Define your brand colors, fonts, and logos once, use them everywhere in Shiny and Quarto.

Theme Factory

• Provides 10 ready-made visual themes with color palettes and font pairings
• Applies a chosen theme to slides, docs, reports, or HTML pages automatically
• Shows you a visual showcase of all themes before you pick one
• Generates custom themes on-the-fly if none of the presets match your needs
• Ensures consistent colors, fonts, and styling across your entire artifact

Brand.yml

• Creates a single YAML file that stores your brand colors, fonts, and logo files
• Automatically applies your branding to Shiny web apps and Quarto documents
• Supports light and dark mode variants for colors and logos
• Integrates with Google Fonts and custom typography
• Works across HTML reports, dashboards, slides, and PDFs

Reach for Theme Factory when…

• You're building a pitch deck and want it to look polished without hiring a designer
• You need a landing page or report that feels cohesive and professional
• You want to rebrand a document quickly with a new color scheme and fonts
• None of the default themes fit and you need a custom look for your project

Reach for Brand.yml when…

• You're setting up brand guidelines for a team's reports and dashboards
• You need consistent colors and fonts across multiple documents without manual styling
• You're creating Shiny apps or Quarto reports and want them to match your brand
• You want to update your brand palette once and have it apply everywhere