Dhanteras — Free Holidays & Seasonal Social Post Template
Holidays & Seasonal · v1.0.0 · Updated 2026-11-06 · Instagram, Facebook & X · HTML + CSS
What's included
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About this template
Dhanteras 2026 — Free Gold Coin Greeting & Offer Post Template
Dhanteras is a free social post template for Dhantrayodashi, the first day of the Diwali festival, which in 2026 falls on Friday 6 November 2026. It is the day families buy gold, silver, new utensils and appliances for good fortune, so it is also one of the biggest shopping days of the year for jewellers and stores across India. The whole post is drawn in CSS, so it stays sharp at every size and animates in the video export.
A kalash of gold, not a stock photo
At the centre is a polished brass kalash with a maroon band of pearls, heaped with gold coins and glowing from behind. Two diyas burn on either side and their flames flicker in the animated version, small sparkles twinkle around the pot, and gold coins stamped with the rupee sign drift down the edges of a deep maroon sky. Every colour, including the gold and the sky, can be changed in the editor.
Hindi and English together
The editable Hindi line reads "शुभ धनतेरस" (Shubh Dhanteras) in Hind, a typeface made for Devanagari, above a large "Happy *Dhanteras*" set in Cinzel with the festive word in gold. Below it there is room for a short wish for health, wealth and new beginnings.
A greeting or a sale
The optional offer chip suits the day perfectly: "0% making charges", a coin or jewellery offer, an exchange deal or extended opening hours. Clear it for a pure greeting from a company, school or office.
The date keeps itself up to date
The label carries the date of the next Dhanteras and changes to the following year on its own once the day has passed, so a design saved this year still opens with the right date next October. Every size is ready: the 4:5 portrait for the Instagram and Facebook feed, the 9:16 Story for WhatsApp Status, and on 16:9 and LinkedIn the kalash sits beside the text. For the main festival two days later, pair it with Diwali.
Extend with AI
Take This Post Further With AI
Ask an AI assistant to adapt the Dhanteras HTML and CSS: write offers for a jeweller or an electronics store, add a second line with store timings, or recolour it in emerald and gold for a different look.
Prompt to recreate it
Copy this into your AI assistant of choice to build the effect from scratch, or as a jumping-off point for your own variant:
Create a 1080×1350 Dhanteras greeting social post in plain HTML and CSS.
Requirements:
- A deep maroon gradient sky with a warm gold glow near the bottom.
- In the lower half, a polished brass kalash (pot) drawn with CSS gradients and border-radius, with a maroon band of small pearls, heaped with overlapping gold coins, with a small diya on each side whose flame is a teardrop shape with a soft glow.
- A few gold coins with a rupee sign scattered along the left and right edges, kept away from the text.
- At the top a small uppercase gold date label, then a Hindi greeting "शुभ धनतेरस" in a Devanagari typeface, a large serif headline "Happy Dhanteras" with "Dhanteras" in gold, a one-line wish and an optional rounded gold offer chip.
- The handle in gold at the bottom.
- Sizes in CSS units based on the shorter side so the same markup works at 1080×1080, 1080×1920 and 1200×628.Want to tighten it up first? Run this prompt through the AI Prompt Studio to score it across 8 quality dimensions, catch anti-patterns, and tune the wording for Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini before you paste it in.
Why use it
Why Use the Dhanteras Template
How it’s different
How It’s Different From Canva-Style Templates
Step by step
How to Use
- 1Pick the sizeChoose Portrait 4:5 (the Instagram feed default), Square, Story / Reel, Landscape 16:9 for X, a 1200×627 LinkedIn image or a 1000×1500 Pinterest pin. Dhanteras opens at 1080×1350.
- 2Edit the textClick any text in the preview, or use the fields on the left (label (date), hindi greeting, headline, message and more). Wrap words in *asterisks* to colour them.
- 3Add your imagesClick a photo area in the preview or use Images to upload your logo. Images stay in your browser.
- 4Match your brandApply your saved brand kit or one of 12 palettes, set exact colours, and choose heading and body fonts from any Google Font or your own uploaded font.
- 5Preview it in the feedSwitch the preview to Instagram, Story, X or LinkedIn to see the post with your name, handle and caption, and fix anything the quality checks flag.
- 6Download, save or bulk createDownload PNG, JPG or PDF, every size as a ZIP, or copy the HTML. Save it to My designs to reuse later, or turn a CSV into dozens of posts with Bulk create.
Real-world uses
Common Use Cases
Follow it up
Email Templates to Match the Dhanteras Post
Reach the people who are not on social media with a matching email from the free responsive HTML email templates: Holiday Greetings Email. Both libraries use the same brand colours and fonts, so the post and the email look like one campaign.
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Dhanteras 2026 is on Friday 6 November 2026. It falls on Trayodashi, the thirteenth day of the waning moon in the month of Kartik, usually two days before Lakshmi Puja, so the date changes every year. The template's date label moves to the next Dhanteras on its own.
Dhanteras, also called Dhantrayodashi, opens the five days of Diwali. "Dhan" means wealth, and buying gold, silver or new utensils on the day is believed to bring prosperity, which is why it is one of the biggest shopping days for jewellers.
Yes. It is an ordinary text field: keep "शुभ धनतेरस", write it in another language such as Marathi or Gujarati, or clear it and the headline moves up.
Yes. Put the offer in the chip, for example "0% making charges today", add your logo, and export a PNG for the feed or the Story size as an MP4 for WhatsApp Status. Leave the chip empty for a greeting.
Portrait post 1080×1350 (4:5): Instagram feed (recommended), Facebook and LinkedIn feeds, X portrait. Square post 1080×1080 (1:1): Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X feeds. Story / Reel 1080×1920 (9:16): Instagram and Facebook Stories, Reel covers. Landscape post 1600×900 (16:9): X feed image, Facebook landscape. LinkedIn image 1200×627 (1.91:1): LinkedIn shared image and link posts, Facebook link images. Pinterest pin 1000×1500 (2:3): Pinterest standard pin (the recommended 2:3 ratio). Switch sizes in the editor and the layout adapts, or click "All sizes (ZIP)" to download every size at once.
Press Play in the editor to watch the animation for free. Downloading it as an animated MP4 (or WebM) for Reels, Stories and WhatsApp Status is for Patreon supporters, who enter the supporter passcode once. PNG, JPG, PDF and HTML exports are free.
Yes, for Patreon supporters. Choose Export, then "Bulk create from CSV", and paste rows from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV whose column names match the Dhanteras fields. Every row becomes one post, and you download them all as a ZIP.
Yes. The preview switches between the plain design and mock-ups of an Instagram feed post, an Instagram Story, an X post and a LinkedIn post, using the name, handle and logo from your brand kit and the caption you type.
Yes. "Copy HTML" and "Download .html" give you one self-contained file: the markup, all the CSS and links to the Google Fonts it uses. "Fork to My Code" saves an editable copy in the UI Snippets editor. The file records the template name and version (v1.0.0).
Yes. It is free for personal and commercial posts, with no sign-up and no watermark. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you type or upload is sent to a server.