Appearance

How your site looks: theme, logo, colours, header and footer — previewed before readers see it.

Appearance has four tabs. Changes you make show in the live preview beside the form, and reach readers only when you press Publish changes.

Theme#

• Classic — a traditional newspaper front page.
• Longform — a calm magazine for long reads.
• App style — like a news app: a swipeable section bar, cards, and a bottom bar on phones.

The one marked Live is what readers see now. You only see the themes your plan includes. If a plan change takes a theme away, the site switches to the first one the plan has.

Logo & favicon#

• Logo for light backgrounds, and Logo on dark backgrounds for dark bars, the footer and the dark page.
• Logo size, with a preview of the masthead, and whether to show the site name beside the logo.
• Site name — also shown in browser tabs and search results — and a Tagline in each language.
• Favicon: a square image, at least 64 × 64 pixels.
• Default story picture, used on cards and in WhatsApp and Facebook previews for stories that have no picture. About 1200 × 800 pixels works best.

Colors & fonts#

• Brand colour — section labels, links, buttons and the breaking strip. Pick a swatch or type a colour like #B3261E.
• Page background: the theme's own, white, newsprint cream or soft grey.
• Headline font: the theme's, serif or sans serif.

Dark theme: switch on Offer a dark theme to add a light/dark button to your site's header. Then choose What a reader sees first — their device's setting, light, or dark — and the Dark page colour. It's off by default, so the site stays light for everyone.

Header & footer#

• Show or hide today's date, the language switcher, the ePaper button and the breaking-news ticker — with the ticker's colour and speed.
• Sections in the menu before "More": how many categories show before the rest fold into More (3 to 12). Their order is set in Categories.
• About text and Contact email for the footer.
• Social profiles — Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp channel, Telegram. Each must start with https://; leave one empty to hide it.
• Footer links — up to 10. Pick one of your Pages from the list, or type an address. These links also appear in the menu on phones.
• Copyright line, per language. Leave it empty for "© year Site name".

Preview and publish#

1. Make your changes. A dot on a tab means it has unsaved changes.
2. Check the preview: Mobile or Web, zoom, or Full screen. On a phone, press Preview.
3. Press Publish changes, look over the list of what changes, and confirm.

Discard throws away everything since the last publish.