# How to Add Gradient Marquee to the Dawn Theme

> Source: https://section-shop.com/theme-guides/dawn/add-gradient-marquee/ — Section Shop, 56 free native Shopify sections. Install: https://apps.shopify.com/section-shop

Scrolling marquee with animated gradient backgrounds (sunset, ocean, purple, fire, forest, midnight). Features glow effects, customizable scroll speed, direction control, and pause on hover. This guide shows how to add the Gradient Marquee section to the Dawn theme with Section Shop — as a native Online Store 2.0 section, customized in the theme editor, without touching Dawn's code. Dawn is a free theme by Shopify, known for speed, minimalism, being the Online Store 2.0 reference — and announcement bars like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Gradient Marquee fits Dawn

Marquees, tickers and rotating bars that push promotions, shipping thresholds and urgency without touching your theme. For Dawn specifically, this is one of the strongest matches in the library: no countdown or urgency sections, and Gradient Marquee fills that gap while inheriting Dawn's typography automatically, so it looks native from the first save. Dawn’s minimal typography carries over automatically: Section Shop sections inherit your Dawn font settings by default, so added sections look native from the first save.

## Steps

1. **Install Section Shop (free)** — Add the app from the Shopify App Store. It's free, carries the Built for Shopify badge, and changes nothing in your Dawn setup until you add a section.
2. **Find “Gradient Marquee” in the library** — Open the app and browse to it — it's in the Announcement Bars category — or use search.
3. **Click “Add to theme”** — Section Shop writes the section into your Dawn theme through Shopify's official theme API, the same mechanism Dawn uses for its own sections.
4. **Open the Dawn theme editor** — In Online Store → Themes → Customize, click “Add section”: you'll find it as “SShop:Gradient Marquee” in the picker.
5. **Customize and save** — Adjust text, images, colors and layout. Typography follows your Dawn font settings by default — or switch the section to any Shopify font. Hit Save and it's live.

## FAQ

### Does Gradient Marquee work with the Dawn theme?

Yes. Dawn is an Online Store 2.0 theme, and Gradient Marquee installs as a native OS 2.0 section through Shopify's official theme API. It appears in Dawn's theme editor as “SShop:Gradient Marquee”, alongside the theme's own sections.

### Will Gradient Marquee match Dawn's design?

By default the section inherits your theme's fonts, so it picks up Dawn's typography automatically. Colors, spacing, images and content are all editable in the theme editor — no CSS required.

### Is Gradient Marquee free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Gradient Marquee is free, like every section in the 56-section library. Once added it's a standard theme file: if you uninstall the app, the section stays in your Dawn theme and keeps working.