The search card has been rebuilt. It is narrower, faster to read, and every option in it now actually finds something. Where before you described what you wanted and hoped the words landed, you now set the qualities of the design itself — sixteen of them — and the closest kits come back ranked, best fit at the top.
This update is less about adding features and more about closing gaps. A filter that returns nothing is worse than no filter at all, and there were more of those than there should have been. They are gone.
One Card, One Column
The card used to be split in two — a chat box on the left, filters on the right. In practice almost nobody used both, and the split made the fields feel like an afterthought. The chat side has been removed. The card is now a single column of fields with the title sitting directly above them, so the whole thing reads top to bottom in one pass.
Template Type, Then Type
The first field is now called Template Type, and it holds exactly two things: Pitch Deck and Media Kit. Those are the two kinds of template on the site, so those are the two choices.
Underneath it is a new field simply called Type, and this is the one worth knowing about. It carries the category inside the template — twenty-six of them. A media kit might be for a podcast, a freelancer, a press office, an influencer, a fashion label, a beauty brand, a coffee roaster. A pitch deck might be for a startup, a product launch, a partnership, an investment round, real estate. Before this, a search for "podcast" had nowhere to go. Now it goes straight to the podcast kits.
Background Is a Field Now
Every design in the catalogue records what its slides actually sit on, and you can now search it. Twenty-eight options — dark, light, gradient, solid, textured, paper, photo, full-bleed image, split-screen, duotone, colour block, glassmorphism, geometric, organic, watercolour, metallic, mesh gradient and more.
It sounds like a small thing until you need it. A kit that looks right in every other respect can be wrong simply because it is built on dark photography when your brand is light and printed. Now that is one dropdown, not ten minutes of opening files.
Measured, Not Guessed
Four of the sixteen fields describe how the canvas is actually used: Text, Shapes, Graphs and Empty Space. Each is set on the same six-step scale — none, low, medium, medium-high, high, very high — and together they always account for the whole slide.
The important part is that these are not opinions. They are measured from the design itself, slide by slide, and the four figures are then averaged across the deck. A kit that reads "high empty space" is one that genuinely leaves most of the canvas open. A kit that reads "very-high shapes" is one where imagery covers nearly everything. If you have ever bought a template described as "clean and minimal" and found it packed edge to edge, this is the field that stops that happening.
- Text — how much of the slide is given to copy.
- Shapes — photography, cards, panels, icons and rules.
- Graphs — charts and tables, for when you actually need them.
- Empty Space — canvas deliberately left open.
Every Option Finds Something
The rest of the card was audited field by field and rebuilt. Colour Family now carries thirty-five families, including the ones people actually search for and previously could not — navy, violet, silver, terracotta, monochrome, pastel, neon, earth tones. Industry runs to fifty-three. Audience covers forty-seven groups, from investors and press to recruiters, students and sponsors. Tone is a plain-English twenty. Best For is twenty real scenarios.
More importantly, every one of those options is now wired to something. Previously a handful of dropdown entries were decorative — they looked like filters but matched nothing, so choosing them quietly narrowed your results to zero. Every option on the card has been checked against the catalogue. If it is in the list, it finds designs.
Searching Across Sections
If you are browsing Media Kits and set Template Type to Pitch Deck, the search no longer ignores you. It pulls the pitch decks in and shows them where you are, with a short red note at the foot of the card explaining what it has done — and a button to move across to that section properly.
The button carries your search with you. Every field you had set arrives on the other page already filled in, results ranked, nothing retyped. It works the same way in reverse from the Pitch Deck section.
Getting the Best Results
A few habits sharpen it. Start with Template Type and Type — those two narrow the field faster than anything else. Add colour and style next, since they are what people actually recognise a design by. Leave the canvas fields until last; they are precision tools, and setting all four at once can describe a design that does not exist. If results feel thin, clear one field rather than starting again — each one you remove widens the field immediately.
And if nothing quite fits, that is worth knowing too. An empty result is now a real answer rather than a broken filter.
Related: how instant exact-match search works