Signal Template — Complete Guide

Signal is an invitation set like the landing page of a launch. The page is black. On the cover, one ribbon of soft, glowing light curves through the dark, and your event name is set large in a precise grotesk across staggered lines. The date and the place sit along the foot of the cover, with a few figures of your choice under it, the way a conference site lists its essentials.

Signal is one of Fotify's simpler designs: its look comes from two lights you choose — any colours at all — and a ground, black or deep ink.

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

Signal 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 Signal different

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

Signature design elements

• A ribbon of light — two soft, blurred bands of colour curving through the black cover, with a fine film grain over them. A wide arc on a computer, a rising diagonal on a phone. It drifts very slowly, unless you turn that off
• Two lights — pick each from the suggested colours or from the colour picker. The first is the warm edge of the ribbon, the second its cool inner edge; together they also colour the small pixel marks on the page and the line of light on the reply card
• A staggered headline — your event name, large and light, broken over up to three lines that step in and back out
• Facts along the foot — the date, the place and, if you like, a third fact of your own, with a stats line of up to four figures you type
• Dark tiles — sections sit on near-black tiles with hairline borders, marked with small clusters of square pixel dots
• One typeface — Host Grotesk, a precise contemporary grotesk, for everything from the headline to the small uppercase labels
• Always readable — whatever colours you pick, even a pale yellow or a near-black, the lights are brightened or deepened just enough to glow on the black while the white headline stays readable over them

When to choose Signal

Signal suits events that want to look sharp, modern and a little technical:

• Conferences and summits — the schedule laid out as one column per day, and your speakers as a grid of portrait cards
• Product launches and launch parties — the two lights in your brand colours, and your own figures on the cover
• Company parties and offsites — a dark, confident page for an evening event
• Milestone birthdays — a 30th, 40th or 50th that wants to feel like a launch night

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 split-screen poster in your brand colour, try Meridian. For a stage-lit keynote with a conference badge, try Keynote.

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

Signal 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 Signal options are kept in case you switch back.

Signal options

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

1. First light

The warm edge of the ribbon of light. Signal also uses it for the pixel marks, the links and the line of light on the reply card. Pick it two ways:

• A suggested swatch — Ember (default), Magenta, Amber, Mint or Crimson
• 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

Any colour works. Because the white headline is set over the light, a very pale or very bright colour is deepened a little (a pale yellow becomes a deeper gold), and a very dark one is brightened until it glows on the black. The hue stays yours.

2. Second light

The cool inner edge of the ribbon, and the second colour of the pixel marks. Suggested swatches: Electric (default), Violet, Cyan, Rose and Silver, or Pick any color. A grey becomes a silver light.

3. Ground

• Black (default) — a pure black page
• Ink — a very deep navy

4. Drifting light

On by default: the ribbon on the cover drifts very slowly. Turn it off for a still cover. Guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see it still.

5. Third cover fact

A third fact on the foot of the cover, next to the date and the place (up to 40 characters). Write it as "label / value" — e.g. "Tickets from / €290" or "Doors / 18:30" — and the part before " / " becomes the small label above it. Without a " / ", the whole text is shown as the value. Leave it blank to show only the date and the place.

6–9. First to fourth figure

Up to four figures on the cover's stats line, each up to 24 characters, written as "number / label" — e.g. "800+ / Guests", "3 / Stages" or "12 / Talks". They are shown exactly as you type them, in order; Signal never counts anything for you. Leave them all blank and the stats line doesn't show.

10. Cover line

The small line in a chip at the top of the cover (up to 60 characters). Leave it blank to use the default ("You are invited"). Try "Product launch 2027" or "Annual summit".

11. Closing line

The large line at the end of the page (up to 80 characters), set across staggered lines. Leave it blank to use the default ("One place, one moment, see you there.").

Every piece of text Signal prints on the invitation — the cover line, the Reply buttons, the Date and Location labels, the section labels and titles, the countdown units, the closing line — can also be rewritten directly on the page: switch the live preview into edit mode and double-click the text. While you edit, the closing line shows on one line so you can type into it; guests see it staggered. 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 tall black field replaces the standard header:

• The cover line (option 10) in a small chip at the top, with a Reply button opposite it. The button scrolls to the RSVP form; it only appears when your RSVP section is visible, and never on a save-the-date page
• The ribbon of light in your two lights (options 1 and 2)
• Your event name, large, broken over up to three staggered lines at its own word breaks. Long names step down a size
• The facts along the foot — the date (with the time), the place and your third fact (option 5). 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
• Under the cover, the stats line (options 6–9), when you typed any figures
• Your cover photo, beside the figures as a wide still, in full colour and keeping the horizontal crop you set (across the full width when you have no figures)

Section heads

Each section opens like a page of a conference site: a small slate label behind a cluster of pixel dots, the title large and light, and — for the story and gifts — your subtitle or gift message in a soft column on the other side.

Message

Your message as the page's opening statement, on a dark tile with a hairline border, set large and light. A long message steps down to a comfortable reading size.

Countdown

One row of cells divided by hairlines, each with its number very large and light and the unit's name under it. 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)

A contact grid ruled in hairlines: every photo in the same upright frame, two across on a phone, three on a tablet and four on a wide screen. Photos keep their colour, with a light grade that lifts on hover.

Story — portrait cards

Your milestones as a speakers grid: each one a portrait card with its photo in a tall frame, its title as the name, its text as the role line and its date beneath. A milestone without a photo gets the same frame filled with a small glow of your two lights. Use it for your speakers, your hosts or your team — every milestone is set the same way.

Itinerary — one column per day

The schedule as one column per day, side by side on a computer and stacked on a phone. Each column opens with its position in the list ("01", "02") and the day's date or label (a day heading appears only when the day has one), then each entry as a row ruled with a hairline: the time or time range, the title, and the place and any note beneath. Entry icons are not shown.

Location — the venue sheet

A sheet of rows beside the map: your address, your directions and the venue's coordinates, each with a small label, then an Open in Maps button. When a map can't be shown, the map side draws a grid with a glow of your two lights and a pixel pin; without coordinates the sheet takes the full width.

RSVP — the dark card

"Save your seat" with your RSVP deadline beside it, and the reply form on the darkest card of the page, with a line of light running across its top edge from your first light to your second. On a save-the-date page the card holds the save-the-date note instead of the form.

Gifts, Event Details and Save the Date

These three sections share their structure with Fotify's other picker-coloured designs (Meridian, Thread, Prism and Duotone), dressed as Signal's dark tiles: hairline borders, slate labels, light titles and white buttons.

• Gifts — every registry, payment option, charity and wishlist item is its own tile in a grid, marked with a small square of light, 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 tile. Pay links, scan-to-pay QR codes and wishlist reservations appear as buttons on each tile
• Event Details — "What to expect": a tile 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 tile where each question opens on tap
• Save the Date (Calendar) — one tile with the title and the event date on one side, and Google, Apple (downloads the calendar file) and Outlook buttons on the other

Closing

Your closing line (option 11), huge and staggered in the middle of the page, the date and place with a Reply button, and a thin footer index that links to every visible section of the page.

Sections that use the shared layout

These sections keep Fotify's shared layout and are dressed in Signal'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 tile, with light titles in Host Grotesk and white 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 figures on the cover come from? A: Only from the four figure options, exactly as you type them. Signal never counts guests, days or anything else for you. Leave them blank and the stats line doesn't show.

Q: Can I put a price or the doors time on the cover? A: Yes, with the Third cover fact option — e.g. "Tickets from / €290" or "Doors / 18:30". It is plain text on the cover, shown exactly as you type it.

Q: I picked a bright yellow. Why does the light look like a deeper gold? A: Your event name is set in white over the ribbon, so a very light colour is deepened just enough to keep the name readable. A very dark colour is brightened instead, so it still glows on the black.

Q: Can I use my brand colours? A: Yes. Set the first and second lights to your two brand colours with Pick any color. The buttons stay white with black text, so they read clearly whatever you pick.

Q: Where is my cover photo? A: Just under the cover, beside your figures, as a wide still (across the full width when you have no figures). The ribbon of light is drawn by the design, so the cover looks complete with or without a photo.

Q: How does Signal decide where the headline breaks? A: It breaks your event name only between words, into up to three lines of similar length, and steps each line in a little. The words are exactly the ones you typed.

Q: Does Signal work in right-to-left languages? A: Yes. In Hebrew and Arabic the layout mirrors: the staggered lines step in from the right, labels and values swap sides, and times and figures keep their reading order.

Q: Does the page move? A: Only the ribbon of light on the cover, which drifts very slowly. Turn Drifting light off for a still cover; guests whose device asks for reduced motion always see a still page.

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 designs for corporate events: Meridian, a split-screen poster in your brand colour, or Keynote, a stage-lit title slide with a conference badge
• Let guests share their photos with a QR code: read about Fotify for conferences and digital invitations with RSVP

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