Design a menu with the toolbar

Every menu surface shares one design toolbar. Learning it once means you can lay out a paper menu, a screen, and your website without relearning the controls each time.

Layout

Paper Size, Columns, and Position determine the shape of the menu. Item Spacing and Line Height control how densely beverages sit within that shape.

Density is the setting worth revisiting. A menu that fits on one page but cannot be read across a dim taproom has not solved the problem — it has moved it to the guest.

Type

Font Face, Text Size, Case, and Format Text handle typography. Separators decide whether items are visually divided.

Colour

The Color Palette offers Brand, Solid Color, Minimal Color, Gray, Light, and Dark. Brand pulls the colours you set in Company Info, which is how a menu ends up looking like your business rather than like a spreadsheet.

Dark and Light matter most on a screen, where the room’s own lighting decides which one is legible.

Choose what each item shows

Toggle individual fields on or off: Tap Numbers, Producers, Products, Styles, Descriptions, and pricing details.

This is the highest-leverage part of the toolbar. Every field you show costs space and attention. A twelve-tap board where each beer carries a producer, style, ABV, description, and three pour prices is complete and unreadable. Decide what a guest needs to choose, and let the rest live somewhere with more room.

Location details

Location Info, Locations, Events, and Displays control the surrounding context — whose menu this is and what else is happening.

Design choices are saved with the menu you are editing, so your Paper Menu can be dense and typographic while your Digital Menu is large and high-contrast. They are drawing on the same beverages; they are not obliged to look alike.

What to do next

Pick the right surface for the audience in Choose the right menu surface.
Set the brand colours the palette draws on in Review company info.