How do I change the logo, colours, fonts and menus of my template?

Published 21 October 2026 at 2:07 am IST · 3 min read

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Where: Settings → Site & brand → Branding

Open this page: admin.<your-site>/settings/branding (replace <your-site> with your site address)

Steps: the Make it yours guide

Open Settings and choose Branding. You can also choose Open the Make it yours guide.
Name and tagline. Enter your Site name and a short tagline in your site's language. They show in the header, browser tabs and search results.
Logo and icon. Upload your logo for light mode and, if you want, a different one for dark mode. A PNG or SVG with a transparent background works best. Add a square site and app icon, at least 512 × 512 px.
Colours. Pick a ready-made palette or one Brand colour. Keynate makes every other colour for light and dark mode and checks that text is easy to read.
Fonts. Choose fonts for each writing system on your site.
Links and contact. Add where readers can follow you and get in touch.
Build and preview. Keynate builds your site with its new look. Check the private preview.
Publish it when you are happy. Branding reaches your site with the next site version.

You can choose Skip for now or Finish later and come back. Every change shows at once in the preview, and every save is a version.

Customise everything. Switch from Simple to Customise everything to set each colour, such as Page background, Main text, Links and Footer background.
Readability check. If a colour pair is hard to read, you see "{count} colour pair(s) hard to read. Pick a darker or lighter colour." Choose a suggested palette.
Reset. Reset to template default brings back the template's own colours. It is saved as a new version.
Menus. Change your site menus in Menus. Change your admin menu in Customise menu.
More than settings. For a new block design, custom CSS or a different article page, use the AI workspace. It changes the code, builds a preview, and you publish or undo. See AI workspace.

Design changes build into a new version of your site. Open Settings → Site & brand → Design history.

Build new version starts a build.
Preview is for signed-in team members only.
Publish this version puts it live.
Go back to this version is instant.
Articles, live blogs, the ticker and media appear at once and don't need a new version.

The build failed. You see "The build failed. Your live site was not changed." Open View build log.
The build is waiting. If you see "Waiting for your server’s site builder", builds start when your server's site builder connects. Your live site is unchanged meanwhile.
"Someone else changed the branding." Another person saved first. We loaded the newest version. Check your change and save again.

Will a new template reset my branding?

No. Your branding is kept when you switch template. See Choose and compare templates.

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