Dusk Template — Complete Guide

Dusk is an invitation set like the website of a summit at sundown. The cover is an illustrated landscape: a sky that runs from deep violet into magenta and orange, a big striped sun setting between three ranges of mountains, a beam of light rising from the valley and a crowd standing on the plain to watch. Your cover photo stands in the valley as a glowing screen, and your event name runs across the sky in heavy condensed capitals.

Dusk is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one sky you choose (synth, ember or ocean) and the colour of the light — any colour at all.

This guide covers how Dusk looks, the options unique to it, how to apply it to your event, and how it lays out each section of your invitation.

Dusk is available on every plan, Free included.

For an overview of the template gallery and the picker, see How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation.

What makes Dusk different

Standard templates change colours and fonts over the same shared layout. Dusk replaces the layout itself: its own cover and closing, its own section heads, and its own treatment of the message, countdown, gallery, story, programme and reply.

Signature design elements

• The landscape — a sunset drawn for your invitation: stars, a striped setting sun, clouds lit from below, three ranges of mountains with a rim of light on their ridges, a plain with the sun's reflection and a perspective grid. The clouds drift slowly
• Your photo as a screen — your cover photo stands in the valley where the beam rises, in a duotone of the sky (its lights in the sun's colour, its shadows in the sky's) with a glowing rim. The crop you set is kept
• The crowd — a row of people seen from behind, watching the sunset from the plain. You can turn them off
• Three skies — synth (violet into magenta and orange), ember (wine into orange-red and gold) or ocean (indigo into teal). The rest of the page is the night after the sunset, in the same hue
• One light — pick it from the suggested colours or from the colour picker. Dusk uses it for the beam, the glow around your photo, the rim light, the grid, the small labels and the session times
• Headline figures — up to four figures you type, like "300+ / Guests", in a row under the cover
• Poster typography — Big Shoulders Display, a heavy condensed face, in capitals for the names, titles and numbers, with Onest for the reading text. The buttons are white pills
• Always readable — whatever light you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, the text and the buttons are adjusted until they read clearly

When to choose Dusk

Dusk suits events with an agenda and some energy:

• Conferences and summits — your schedule as one illustrated card per day, and your key figures under the cover
• Product launches, hackathons and company offsites — the light in your brand colour, and a mission line that lights up as guests scroll
• Milestone birthdays and parties — a big sunset, a big name, and a reply pass with a tear-off stub
• Graduation parties — the ember or ocean sky, and the story of the years as portrait cards

Whatever the occasion, the photos your guests take matter as much as the invitation. Guests can scan the event QR code and add their photos to the shared gallery. See how Fotify works for conferences, corporate events and birthdays.

For a stage with a speaker's spotlight, try Keynote. For a festival poster with a line-up, try Lineup.

Applying Dusk to your event

1. Open your event, click Invitation in the sidebar, then the Invitation tab
2. In Design Template, click Change template if the gallery is collapsed, and find Dusk under Designs (it is listed under the Corporate filter, and under Party, Birthday and Graduation too)
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Dusk with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Dusk card to apply it straight away
5. Open Dusk options below the gallery to pick your sky, your light and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Dusk works on every plan. On free events a small "Made with Fotify" badge appears in the bottom corner of the invitation; any paid plan or an active subscription removes it.

Switching to another template later is non-destructive: your event content stays exactly as you entered it, and your Dusk options are kept in case you switch back.

Dusk options

Dusk has nine options of its own. They take the place of the standard colour and font controls, which Dusk doesn't use.

1. Sky

The colours of the sunset on the cover, on the itinerary's day cards and at the close:

• Synth (default) — deep violet into magenta, with an orange horizon
• Ember — wine into orange-red, with a golden horizon
• Ocean — indigo into teal, with a pale aqua horizon

The page after the cover takes the same hue, as a near-black night.

2. Light

The colour of the light. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Magenta (default), Cyan, Lime, Sunset orange or Violet
• Pick any color — the last chip opens your device's colour picker, so you can match a brand colour exactly. The colour's code is shown beside the chips

Dusk uses it for the beam over the plain, the glowing rim of your cover photo, the rim light on the crowd and the mountains, the grid on the plain, the small labels and the session times. The white buttons take a tint of it when a guest points at them. Any colour works: where it carries text it is shaded until it reads clearly.

3. Crowd silhouettes

On by default: a row of people standing on the plain, watching the sunset. Turn it off for an empty landscape.

4–7. Stats 1 to 4

Up to four headline figures, shown in a row under the cover, exactly as you type them (up to 24 characters each). Type the figure, a slash, then what it counts — "300+ / Guests", "3 / Days", "12 / Speakers" — and Dusk sets the figure large with its label under it. Text without a slash is shown as one big figure. Leave a stat blank to hide it; with all four blank the row is not shown. Dusk never counts anything for you.

8. Cover line

The small line at the top of the cover, above the place and the date (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("You are invited to").

9. Closing line

The big line over the sunset at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("See you at sundown").

Every piece of text Dusk prints on the invitation — the cover line, the Reply now buttons, the section labels and titles, the countdown units, the word "Day" on the itinerary, the closing line — can also be rewritten directly on the page: switch the live preview into edit mode and double-click the text. Section titles you have already set in their own settings (story, countdown, gifts, where to stay, getting there, FAQs) are edited in place the same way.

How each section is treated

Cover

The landscape replaces the standard header:

• The cover line (option 8) in small spaced capitals at the top of the sky
• The place and the date just above the name, the place on one side and the date (with the time) on the other — the time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover, the date and the place follow Show date and Show location, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• Your event name in heavy condensed capitals. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• Reply now — a white pill that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page
• The landscape below, with your cover photo standing in the valley as a glowing screen (or a doorway of light when you have no photo) and the crowd (option 3) in front

Headline figures

Your stats (options 4–7) in a row under the cover — two to a row on a phone, all of them in one row on wider screens.

Section heads

Each section opens with a tiny striped sun and the section's label in spaced capitals in your light, then its title in heavy condensed capitals and, for the story, your subtitle.

Message — the mission line

A short message (up to about 240 characters) is set as a manifesto in large condensed capitals, and its words light up one after another as guests scroll it into view. A longer message reads as a letter in the reading face. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion, or whose browser doesn't support the effect, see the line fully lit.

Countdown — highlight tiles

One dark tile per unit, each with a strip of the landscape across its top: side by side, the strips form one continuous sunset. The numbers are set in the condensed face. It counts down to your event's date and time in the venue's time zone, and shows your completed message once the moment arrives.

Gallery (Carousel)

Your photos as a row of tall cards that guests swipe through, each with a soft afterglow of the light at its foot.

Story — portrait cards

Every milestone as a portrait card, the way a summit introduces its speakers: the photo in black and white (it comes back to colour when a guest points at it), then the date in your light, the title and the text. A milestone without a photo shows a small black-and-white sunset instead, so the cards stay even. Three to a row on wide screens, two on tablets, and a photo beside the text on a phone.

Itinerary — one card per day

Each day is a card. On one side, a tall panel of the landscape drawn for that day: the first day in your sky, the next days in the other skies in turn, each with the sun at a different height. On it, "Day 1", "Day 2"… when your programme runs over several days (the day's place in the programme), and the day's date or label (a day heading appears only when the day has a date or a label). On the other side, the sessions: the time in your light, the title, the place and any note. Entry icons are not shown. On a phone the landscape becomes a band across the top of the card.

RSVP — your pass

"Will you be there?" with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a pass: a strip of the sunset across its top, then a perforated tear line with a notch at each end, and a stub with a decorative barcode over the place and the date. The barcode is decoration only — the pass never shows a seat, a code or a number. On a save-the-date page the pass holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Location, Gifts, Event Details and Save the Date

These four sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and Duotone), dressed in Dusk's night: dark rounded cards, labels in your light, condensed titles and white pill buttons.

• Location — a map card beside an address card with your address, your directions and an Open in Maps button. When a map can't be shown, the map card draws a pin with the venue's coordinates; without coordinates the address card spans the row
• Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own card in a grid, grouped under small labels (with a count) when you offer more than one kind. Payment details sit in an inset box with a Copy button, and long account numbers wrap inside the card. Pay links, scan-to-pay QR codes and wishlist reservations appear as buttons on each card
• Event Details — a card per topic: dress code with your suggested and avoided colours as swatches, where to stay with each hotel as a mini-card (distance, price range, promo code, notes and a Book button), getting there with an icon for each kind of transport, and a full-width FAQ card where each question opens on tap
• Save the Date (Calendar) — one card with the title and the event date on one side, and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons on the other

Closing

The sky again: your closing line (option 9) in large condensed capitals with the place under it, a calendar leaf with the month, the day and the weekday, the time, and a Reply now pill, over the setting sun and the mountains.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Dusk's style:

• Photo upload, QR code, Table assignment, Playlist, Sub-events, Special treatments and custom sections

Each sits in the same column as the rest of the page on a dark rounded card, with titles in the condensed face and white pill buttons. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where do the numbers under the cover come from? A: Only from the Stat 1 to Stat 4 options, exactly as you type them. Leave them blank and the row is not shown; Dusk never counts guests, days or anything else for you.

Q: Why does the itinerary say "Day 1" and "Day 2"? A: When your programme runs over several days, each day card shows its place in the programme, in the order of the days. A one-day programme shows no number. You can change the word "Day" in the live preview's edit mode.

Q: Can I use my brand colour? A: Yes. Set the Light to your brand colour with Pick any color. It colours the beam, the glow, the labels and the session times; the sky keeps the colours of the sunset you chose.

Q: Is my cover photo shown in its own colours? A: On the cover it stands in the landscape as a screen in the colours of the sky, so it blends with the sunset — the people and the scene stay easy to recognise. Your gallery photos keep their own colours.

Q: I don't have a cover photo. Will the cover look empty? A: No. Without a photo the screen in the valley becomes a doorway of light.

Q: Does Dusk work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the place and the date swap sides, the day panels move to the right of their sessions, and the mission line lights up from the right. The landscape is drawn the same way, and the cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only gently: the clouds drift slowly and the mission line lights up as guests scroll. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion see a still page with the line fully lit.

Next steps

• See How to Customize Your RSVP Invitation for the template gallery and how to try a design on before applying it
• Compare the other event designs: Keynote, a stage with a spotlight for talks and launches, or Lineup, a festival poster
• Let guests share their photos with a QR code: read about Fotify for conferences and digital invitations with RSVP

Need help? Get in touch through the in-dashboard help widget.