Custom Social Icon Colors and Hover Effects

What You'll Create

Custom-colored social media icons with interactive hover effects. Change the default icon colors to match your brand, and add different colors when visitors hover over them.

The Problem It Solves

Squarespace's social icons inherit colors from your site palette, but you can't easily customize individual icon colors or create hover effects. This technique gives you full control over both default and hover states.

Perfect For

Brand color matching, Interactive footer design, Header social icons, Custom color schemes, Hover animations

What Makes This Different

This code lets you set a specific color for all your social icons in their default state, then define what happens when the entire icon group is hovered (other icons can fade), and what happens to the specific icon being hovered. This creates a polished, interactive feel.

Details

• Section Type: Fluid & Classic

• Code Type: CSS

• Prerequisites: Social links added in Squarespace settings

• Toolkit Title: Social Links Colors

Learn This Technique

This is one of 150+ code techniques taught inside Standout Squarespace, where you get:

• The complete, copy-paste code

• Video walkthrough explaining how it works

• The principles behind the technique so you can customize it

• Access to our private community for support