Sable

Sable is a dark-luxury Help Center theme for premium brands: a warm ink header and centered hero with a Bodoni headline and gold ornament, an ivory reading canvas, topics as a ruled index with roman numerals, an elegant reading list and a framed concierge call to action.

What makes it different

• Centered ink hero with didone serif headline and gold diamond ornament

• Gold outline request button and uppercase tracked navigation

• Topics in a ruled table numbered I, II, III

• Two-column serif reading list with gold leader lines

• Framed ink concierge call to action with gold button

• Long-form articles on a warm ivory canvas with italic serif pull quotes

Included

• Fully responsive, verified without horizontal overflow at 390px on home, category, section, article and search pages (LTR and RTL)

• Accessible by design: WCAG AA text contrast on default colours, visible focus rings, skip link and reduced-motion support

• Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew) supported through logical CSS properties

• Every Help Center template included: home, category, section, article, search, requests, new request, community, profile, service catalog and approvals

• Colours, logo and favicon editable in the Theming Center

• Self-hosted fonts (no Google Fonts request)

• Settings translated in 37 locales; theme copy translated for English, Portuguese and Spanish with English fallback

• No extra JavaScript: the design is pure CSS on top of the standard Help Center scripts

Installation

In Guide admin, open Customize design and import the theme zip. Set your logo and colours in the Theming Center, then publish.

Credits

Built on Zendesk's open-source Copenhagen theme (Apache-2.0) for form and workflow functionality. Design, layouts and styling are original. Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.