Menu Styles

Menu Styles are the blueprints for iMenuPro - the starting point for your menu design. They contain the layout, margins, font selections, colors, background, border, accents, and price / symbol options for a menu. When you choose a Menu Style, all of these elements are automatically selected, but you can override these default elements at any time to fully customize your design.

Any Menu Style can also utilize columns.

Switch styles

Switch menu styles at any time using the Design > Switch styles command to choose a specific Menu Style.

Or click the «Previous Style or Next Style» buttons on the toolbar to cycle through all the available styles in full screen.

Tip

If there are certain design elements you want to keep on your menu such as a specific background, or a certain font, and you would like to see how those design elements look with the layouts of the other Menu Styles, just make the changes (select the background or fonts you want) then go to Tools > iMenuPro Settings and check ‘Keep design changes when switching styles’. Now, when you switch styles, the design elements you have changed will stay put for every Menu Style. More on this important option below.

Columns

With iMenuPro there are two basic ways to do columns:

1 Set the overall menu columns to be In this many columns when you choose your menu style using the Switch styles command.

This puts your entire menu into columns like a newspaper. If you change only the number of newspaper-style columns with the Switch styles command and leave the selected style the same, any other design changes made to the current style won’t change - only the columns layout will change. In other words, the overall columns setting operates independently from the style design elements.

Menu style “Bill of Fare” set to 3 overall menu columns

OR

2 If you want just specific sections in columns, edit a Heading and use the Food Columns Layout Tweak for that heading. This will put just the foods under that heading into columns and leave the heading and the rest of menu in 1 column (to use this option your overall menu must be set to 1 column). This, again, has no effect on any style design changes.

Menu style “Eros Taverna” using Food Columns for 2 and 3 columns

Keep design changes when switching Styles

Under Tools > iMenuPro app settings there is an option that lets you keep any design changes you’ve made, even when you switch menu styles. This is an important and useful setting as it can save you an enormous amount of time (and energy hence the green leaf that appears when this option is set)!

For example, if you change the border from the style default (or font, background, currency symbol etc.), those changes will remain when you switch menu styles. If you have specific branding elements you want, such as fonts/colors, this setting lets you set those up, then try different style layouts, without losing your font/color changes.

Title heading font and Title accent were changed, then the styles switched with Keep ON

Tip

You’ll be alerted in the Menu Styles selection box if you have the Keep setting turned ON. Additionally, the leaf icon, which appears next to your style name on the toolbar if the style is altered, will be green rather than blue. This tells you that a) something in the current style has been changed and b) this change will persist when switching styles. Lastly, you can click the Leaf icon on the toolbar to toggle the Keep setting.

The green leaf means you’ve changed the style and you have the keep changes option ON