Lineup Template — Complete Guide

Lineup turns your invitation into a summer festival poster. The cover is a big sky — a sunset gradient, a two-ink risograph print or a neon night — with a striped sun and its rays, your cover photo printed in your colour, and your event name set as the headliner in giant capitals. The date, time and place sit under it like the rest of the lineup, and guests reply with a button shaped like a festival wristband.

Lineup is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from one colour you choose — any colour at all — and a choice of three poster styles.

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

Lineup 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 Lineup different

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

Signature design elements

• A poster in your colour — pick a colour from the suggested swatches or from the colour picker. Lineup builds the sky, the sun, the wristbands, the timetable's stage colours and the buttons from it
• Three poster styles — a sunset gradient, a risograph print in two inks on off-white paper, or a neon night with glowing type on a dark page
• Your name as the headliner — the event name in giant capitals, in a condensed poster face, a chunky 70s script or a bold modern grotesk
• Your photo, printed — the cover photo printed in two inks of your colour (light for the highlights, deep for the shadows) with a halftone screen, as the poster's sun or in a ticket-shaped window
• A festival timetable — your schedule as a day-by-day clashfinder, with each place shown as its own colour-coded stage
• A scoreboard countdown — dot-matrix LED digits on a dark board
• Wristbands — the reply buttons look like woven festival wristbands with a clasp, and the RSVP card is a woven band of its own
• Always readable — whatever colour you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, Lineup adjusts the sky and the text until every label reads clearly on every background it sits on

When to choose Lineup

Lineup suits celebrations with a festival spirit:

• Festival weddings — a weekend in a field or a finca, with the welcome drinks, the ceremony and the after-party laid out as a timetable. See weddings
• Weekend birthdays — a fortieth that runs from Friday to Sunday, with Dates on the poster set to the whole weekend. See birthdays
• Company offsites and team summits — the agenda as stages and slots, your company presenting on the poster. See corporate events
• Summer parties, garden parties and launches — a sunset poster for the afternoon, a neon night for the evening. See parties

If you prefer soft gradient light and frosted cards, try Prism. For a party covered in stickers, try Confetti. For a mixtape and its tracklist, try Mixtape.

Applying Lineup 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 Lineup under Designs (it is listed under the Party, Wedding, Birthday and Corporate filters)
3. Optional: press Try it on to see Lineup with your own invitation details in the live preview — nothing is saved until you press Use this design
4. Or click the Lineup card to apply it straight away
5. Open Lineup options below the gallery to pick your colour and the other options described below. Changes save automatically

Lineup 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 Lineup options are kept in case you switch back.

Lineup options

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

1. Poster style

• Sunset gradient (default) — a sky that runs from a deeper shade of your colour at the top to a golden horizon, with a striped sun
• Risograph two-ink — off-white paper printed in your colour and a second, deep ink chosen to go with it, a halftone screen and a headline printed slightly off register
• Neon night — a dark sky glowing with your colour at the horizon, glowing type and a dark page for every section

2. Festival colour

The colour the poster is built from. Pick it two ways:

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

Any colour works. Lineup never paints your pick as it is where it would hurt legibility: it deepens or lightens the sky behind the headline, the text and the buttons just enough for every label to stay readable.

3. Headline typeface

How your event name is set on the poster: Condensed grotesk (default, tall poster capitals), Retro script (a chunky 70s script) or Modern grotesk (a bold, wide sans). The section titles follow the same face.

4. Photo window

Your cover photo, printed in your colour: as the poster's Sun circle (default), with the retro stripes cut through its lower half, or in a Ticket window with notched sides over the sun. Without a cover photo the poster simply shows the sun.

5. Moving poster

On by default: the sun rays turn very slowly and the ticker under the cover scrolls. Turn it off for a perfectly still page. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see a still page.

6. Presented by

A small line at the very top of the poster (up to 60 characters), like a festival's promoter — for example "Anna & Ben present" or "Northwind Labs presents". Leave it blank and nothing is shown.

7. Dates on the poster

Write your dates the way a festival would (up to 40 characters) — for example "12–14 June 2027" or "Fri to Sun". Leave it blank to show your event date. The dates follow the Show date setting of your invitation's cover, like the date they replace.

8. Cover label

The sticker above the event name (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("You're on the list"). Try "Summer weekender", "Live in 2027" or "All-hands festival".

9. Closing title

The big line at the end of the page (up to 80 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("See you down the front"). Try "See you in the field" or "Encore!".

Every piece of text Lineup prints on the invitation — the cover label, the When, Gates and Live at labels, the wristband buttons, the section labels and titles, the countdown units, the closing title — 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

A full-height poster replaces the standard header:

• Presented by (option 6), when you fill it in
• The sun and its rays, with a festival seal beside them — or your cover photo as the sun or in a ticket window (option 4), keeping the horizontal crop you set
• Cover label (option 8) on a tilted sticker
• Your event name as the headliner. Long names step down a size so they never break mid-word
• When, Gates and Live at set like a lineup: your date (or your Dates on the poster), the time and the place. The time follows the Show time setting of your invitation's cover, and every guest sees the date you picked, whatever their time zone
• Get your wristband — a wristband-shaped button that scrolls to the RSVP form. It only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page

Under the cover, a ticker repeats your event name, date and place.

Section heads

Each section opens with its label on a small tilted sticker in your colour, then its title in capitals in the headline face and, for the story and gifts, your subtitle or gift message.

Message

Your invitation message printed on a handbill: a paper sheet with a heavy printed border, a band of stars across the top and a row of tear-off tabs along the bottom. The handbill stays on light paper even on the neon night, set large and centred. A long letter steps down to a comfortable reading size.

Countdown

Gates open in, on a festival scoreboard: dot-matrix LED digits in your colour on a dark board, one cell for each unit — days, hours, minutes and (if you switch them on) seconds. When the countdown ends, your completion message lights up on the board instead.

Gallery (Carousel)

A poster wall: each photo is pasted up as a strip of torn poster, held by a piece of tape and tilted a touch, keeping its own shape — two columns on a phone, three on wider screens.

Story

Previously on the main stage, set like the list of past dates on a tour poster: every milestone is one row between heavy rules, with its date, its title in capitals, its description and a small printed photo. Every milestone is laid out the same way; one without a photo simply leaves that cell out.

Itinerary

A festival timetable: one column for each day — side by side on wider screens, one under the other on a phone. Each entry is a time slot with the time on a coloured tab, the event, the place and any note. Each place gets its own stage colour (up to four colours, in the order the places first appear), so the same room or venue keeps its colour on every day.

Location, Gifts, Event Details, Save the Date and RSVP

These five sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and the others), dressed in Lineup's style: printed cards with a heavy outline and a solid offset shadow, rounded buttons in your colour with their labels in capitals, and titles in the headline face. Their default titles follow the festival theme — the location is the Site map and the gifts are the Merch tent — and every one of them can be changed.

• 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: what to wear 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
• RSVP — the title with your RSVP deadline under it, and the reply form on a card woven like a wristband, with a patterned band along its top and bottom edges: the attend / decline choices as two selectable boxes and a send button shaped like the wristband's clasp. On a save-the-date page, the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form

Closing

An encore: a festival seal, your closing title (option 9) large in the headline face, the date and place, and a final Reply wristband.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Lineup'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 printed card, with titles in capitals in the headline face and buttons in your colour. The photo upload becomes the photo pit, with crowd-barrier stripes along the top and bottom of its card and each photo printed with a heavy outline. Photos in custom sections are capped in height so a tall portrait never takes over the page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: My event runs over a whole weekend. How do I show all the dates? A: Fill in Dates on the poster with the range, for example "12–14 June 2027". Your schedule then shows one timetable column per day.

Q: Is Lineup only for music festivals? A: No. The festival is the look, not the occasion: it works for weddings, birthdays, offsites and summer parties. Every line can be changed — with the options above, or by double-clicking the text in the live preview.

Q: I picked a pale colour. Why does the sky look deeper than my colour? A: The headline has to read on every part of the sky, so Lineup deepens (or, on the neon night, darkens) the sky just as far as it needs to. Your colour still sets the hue of the whole poster.

Q: Can I turn the moving poster off? A: Yes, switch Moving poster off. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see a still page, whatever you choose.

Q: I don't have a cover photo. Will the cover look empty? A: No. Without a photo, the poster shows the striped sun and its rays in your colour, with your cover label, name and lineup below.

Q: Does Lineup work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the stickers tilt the other way, the timetable's tabs and the story's dates move to the right, and the ticker scrolls the other way. The cover photo's crop stays as you set it.

Q: Can I use custom RSVP fields with Lineup? A: Yes. Custom fields (dropdowns, dates, checkboxes, file uploads and so on) pick up Lineup's fields and labels automatically.

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 picker-coloured designs: Prism for soft gradient light and frosted cards, Confetti for a sticker party, or Meridian for a poster in your brand colour beside the details
• Planning the weekend itself? Read about Fotify for weddings and digital invitations with RSVP, and let guests share their photos of the day with a QR code

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