By branding your platform with your organisation's logo, color scheme, and other visual elements, it becomes an extension of the organisation's overall brand identity. This creates a sense of consistency and familiarity for employees when they engage with the platform, which can lead to increased engagement and adoption.

Ultimately, the branding of the platform should match with the organisation's own branding to reinforce the your mission and values and to promote a sense of unity and belonging among employees.

To adjust the layout of your platform go to the 'Layout' tab under 'Settings' in Control.

The primary colour is used most commonly in your platform. In some places it is also used as a background colour. Therefore please pick a colour that contrasts with white text.

Examples of places your primary colour will show:

The secondary colour is used as an accent colour. Please pick a colour that contrasts nicely with white text.

Examples of places your secondary colour will show:

The base colours are used throughout the platform. These usually don't require to be changed but if your platform should use different shades of the colours below, you can edit them here.

Examples of places your base colours will show:

💡Tip: if your primary colour is a shade of red or green please indicate so under 'Growing interaction'. Then the platform will use different colours than red and green to indicate wrong/correct answers

Here you can customise the appearance of the corners on tiles and buttons.The platform uses rounded corners by default on both tiles and buttons.

Rounded corners:

Squared corners:

You can adjust the heading font and the body font used on your platform. Learn how to implement those here or use the tours provided in control:

The highlighted font colour is used for highlighted titles and texts. Please use a colour that is readable on top of a white background.

Examples of places the highlighted font colour will show:

Choose a subtle font colour for instructions that is still easily readable against light backgrounds.

Examples of places the subtitle font colour will show:

The platform background pattern is used to add some playfulness to the platform styling. Used in Upskill, the Timeline, the user profile, the accordion template and the swipe series template.

Examples of places the platform background pattern will show:

There are a few places in the platform where you can choose to use either light or dark theme. Dark theme means that texts will show in the light font colour instead of dark. You can combine light theme with a light background colour, or dark theme with a dark background colour.

Adjust the theme for the application. This changes the theme for login screens, intro, intake, navigation and mobile header. Make sure the platform logo is white (or light) if you pick dark theme.

Update the background colour if you want the background to be a different colour than white (in light theme) or the platform’s primary colour (in dark theme).

Examples of places the application theme will show (dark theme with adjusted color):

Adjust the theme for learning templates. This changes the theme for the swipe, accordion and perspective templates of a learning bite.

Update the background colour if you want the background to be a different colour than white (in light theme) or the platform's primary colour (in dark theme).

Examples of places the learning templates theme will show (dark theme with adjusted color):

Adjust the theme for the discovery stream.

Update the background colour if you want the background to be a different colour than white (in light theme) or the platform's primary colour (in dark theme).

Example of discovery stream theme (dark theme with adjusted color):

Adjust the theme for guiding pages. This changes the theme for the to do, notifications, FAQ and platform feedback.

Update the background colour if you want the background to be a different colour than white (in light theme) or the platform's primary colour (in dark theme).

Examples of places the guiding pages theme will show (dark theme with adjusted color):

Here you can customise your activity tiles, journey tiles and spotlighted widgets.

The spotlighted widgets in the discovery stream have a white background by default, with dark or highlighted texts.

Example of spotlighted activity theme (light theme with adjusted color):

The activity tiles have a white background by default, with dark or highlighted texts.

Example of activity tiles theme (light theme with adjusted color):

Adjust the size of the journey title and subtitle. By default, the journey title is larger than the subtitle. Check the checkbox if you want this the other way around.