Make it look like yours

The Customize is where your community stops looking like a default and starts looking like you. Everything visual lives here, plus most of the wording your members read.

Find it in the sidebar under Customize. Owners, admins and editors can open it and save changes. Editors do not get the Paywall section, and cannot limit a tab to a membership tier.

Brand

Three things:

• Wordmark. The text in your header. Leave it empty and your community name is used.

• Logo. An image shown instead of the wordmark. A transparent PNG or an SVG works best.

• Browser tab icon. The little square in the browser tab. Square images work best, 512 by 512 pixels or larger.

Colours

Five slots: your page background, your text colour, your accent, your card background, and a soft background used behind quieter sections. Each has presets and a custom picker. Your card background and soft background are Automatic by default, which means they follow your page background: the card is a slightly raised shade of it and the soft fill a soft shade of it, so changing your background changes both. Pick a colour yourself and that slot stays put; press Match background to hand it back to Automatic.

Your accent is the one that does the most work. It colours buttons, links, highlights and the numbers in your courses. It also carries through to your sign-in emails and the preview cards people see when they share your links. Pop-up menus and dialogs your members open, such as the account menu, wear your card colour too, with text that stays readable on it.

There is a separate control for the text on your buttons, set to Auto by default. Auto picks light or dark text based on your accent. If you override it and the result is hard to read, Drry warns you before you save.

Typography

A heading font and a body font from a curated list. If you have a licensed font of your own you can upload it. Accepted formats are woff2, woff, ttf and otf, up to 2 MB.

The words, not just the look

Two Customize sections change what members read rather than how it looks.

Page copy also opens the Home builder, where you arrange what members see when they open Home (see Build your members' Home page). It holds the headline and supporting line for your courses page, your community feed, your audio library, your guides, and the page someone lands on when a link is broken. Every field is optional. Leave one blank and a sensible default is used.

Onboarding holds what a brand new member sees the first time they arrive: the welcome message, the profile questions you ask them, and the confirmation at the end. You choose which profile fields appear and which are required.

The other sections

One line each. Each has its own controls in Customize.

• Buttons: the default shape, size and fill of the call to action buttons on your landing pages, and separately on your Home and join page.

• Tabs: which tabs members get, what they are called, and their order.

• Members: whether members can see each other in a member directory, and the Direct messages switch.

• Community: the header behind every member profile, and usernames you hold back.

• Events: the name of the events tab, its wording, and how an RSVP feels.

• Paywall: the join screen a person sees before they are in. Owners and admins only.

• Legal: your own terms and privacy policy, hosted on your community.

• Emails: the welcome, receipt, new-content and session reminder emails members get.