Maranello 5.3 – Introducing Chroma

Maranello 5.3 introduces Chroma, an exciting new preset designed specifically for electronics and tech stores. Alongside this fresh design, you get four brand-new sections, enhanced product page blocks, and comprehensive improvements that make your store more powerful and flexible than ever.

Introducing Chroma

Say hello to Chroma, a modern preset crafted for electronics retailers. With its clean design, tech-focused aesthetics, and smart layout choices, Chroma gives you the perfect foundation for showcasing smartphones, laptops, accessories, and all the gadgets your customers love.

New sections to enhance your store

Breadcrumbs section

Help customers navigate your catalog with ease. Breadcrumbs let shoppers trace their path and jump back to previous pages effortlessly.

Simple collection list section

Showcase your product categories in a clean, straightforward layout that makes browsing intuitive.

Sticky Cart section

Keep the add-to-cart button visible as customers scroll through long product descriptions and technical specifications—perfect for detailed electronics listings.

Contact form section

A flexible contact form that adapts to your page structure. Add it anywhere and collect customer inquiries in a clean, organized way.

Enhanced product page blocks

Your main and featured product sections gain powerful new blocks for richer product storytelling.

Table block

Present technical specifications, compatibility charts, or feature comparisons in a structured format—essential for electronics where specs matter.

Rich text block

Add detailed descriptions, warranty information, or technical notes directly within your product layout.

Sibling products block

Showcase related variants or complementary items—like showing different color options or matching accessories—to help customers discover more products.

Expanded personalization and product details

• Personalization text block now supports date fields, text areas, dropdown lists, and checkboxes for custom orders and engravings.
• Details block now supports more metafield types, including list formats, for comprehensive product information.
• Expandable blocks can now pull in full page content for detailed specifications or documentation.
• Position settings give you more control over block placement on product pages.

Mobile-first improvements

Mobile and textual logos

Upload separate logos optimized for mobile screens, or choose text-based logos with custom slogans for a distinctive brand presence on smaller devices.

Mobile spacing control

Fine-tune top and bottom spacing independently on mobile for all main template sections, ensuring your store looks polished on every screen size.

Smarter customization throughout

This update gives you finer control over design and behavior across your entire store.

• Badge shape control – Choose rounded, square, or pill shapes for sale and feature badges.
• Product card alignment – Control content alignment across all product cards.
• Custom icons everywhere – Any section or block with an icon setting now supports custom uploads.
• SKU display – Show SKU numbers on product cards across all relevant sections.
• Header alignment – Set left or center alignment for section headings throughout your store.
• Collection card styling – Enable borders and padding for collection cards across various sections.

Enhanced sections with new flexibility

• Slideshow section now supports self-hosted video in individual slides.
• Featured collection section adds collection card positioning and button-as-link display options.
• Footer section gains horizontal footer links for privacy policies and terms, plus new social icon controls with colored icon options.
• Brands section includes section-level links for “All brands” navigation.
• Filters sections now support up to 100 additional collection values.
• Cart and minicart clearly display product price discounts.

Performance and accessibility upgrades

Maranello 5.3 includes meaningful technical improvements. We’ve implemented Lighthouse performance recommendations, modernized Google Maps loading, improved lazy loading and fetch priorities, enhanced CSS nesting, and made several accessibility improvements to ensure your store is fast, reliable, and inclusive.

Fixes and refinements throughout

• Improved Shopify Subscriptions app styling.
• Fixed product card image sizing when clicking color swatches.
• Resolved variant picker issues with unavailable variants.
• Fixed JavaScript errors on the Customize page when adding sections.
• Enhanced layout files for better performance.
• Fixed AJAX pagination errors in collection and search templates.
• Maintained filter states to prevent layout shifts.
• Fixed sidebar menu text overflow in collection sections.
• Streamlined product comparison typography.
• Resolved mobile dock overlapping footer content.
• Added video cover image support in contact form media blocks.
• Fixed self-hosted video playback in single-slide slideshows.
• Added translation support for cart shipping calculator.
• Fixed JavaScript error with coupon code fields in cart templates.

A note on the “Skins” preset

With this release, we’ve removed the Skins preset to streamline our offerings and focus on the most versatile starting points for your store.

Upgrade to Maranello 5.3 today

Maranello 5.3 brings a bold new preset, powerful product blocks, mobile-first enhancements, and comprehensive customization tools that help you build exactly the tech store you envision. With Chroma leading the way alongside enhanced sections, granular controls, and performance improvements, your electronics store will shine.

Try Maranello free today and experience the most refined version yet.