As your Brand Kit grows, clarity and structure become increasingly important. Canva’s updated Brand System now allows you to create custom sections, giving you more control over how your assets are grouped and displayed. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what custom sections are, how they affect your Brand Kit layout, and how to reorder them to better support your workflow.
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As your Canva account grows, the Brand Kit can start to feel incredibly helpful, but also in need of a bit more clarity and structure.
Not because anything is unimportant or out of place, but because you’re working with more brand assets overall.
That’s where custom sections come in.
What Custom Sections Are (and Why They Exist)
One of the biggest advantages of Canva’s new Brand System is that you’re no longer locked into a fixed set of brand asset categories.
Instead, you can create custom sections to act as high-level groupings, and then use categories inside those sections to organize different types of assets. This gives you much more control over how your Brand Kit is laid out and how it supports your day-to-day design work.
Sections work best when they represent broad types of assets, rather than specific use cases or platforms.
For example, you might create sections like:
- Core Brand Assets for foundational elements such as logos, colours, fonts, and brand voice
- Brand Photos for photography that represent your brand’s look and feel
- Brand Graphics for reusable visual elements that support your overall visual style
Within each section, Canva lets you further organize assets as needed, but you don’t need to overthink this. In most cases, fewer clearly named sections are easier to work with than lots of very specific ones.
And if Canva’s default structure already works well for you, it’s completely fine to leave it as-is and only customize things when you notice a real need.
What Happens to Your Brand Kit Layout When You Add Sections
One thing that’s helpful to understand is that creating custom sections doesn’t hide or separate parts of your Brand Kit into different screens.
Rather, everything still lives on the main Brand Kit landing page and what changes is how that page is visually organized.
Once you add sections, the Brand Kit is broken up with section headings, and the existing categories are grouped underneath those headings.
Reordering Sections and Categories
Custom sections are also flexible. You can rearrange the order of sections, and rearrange the order of categories within each section.
This lets you put the most frequently used areas of your Brand Kit closer to the top if you so choose, and move less-used sections further down.
