Practical: Customising your Substack website theme

Let's make it look and feel like you.

What we’re doing here Applying your colours, fonts, and logos in Substack so your publication looks and feels like your world from the moment someone lands.

✓ Already have your visual theme set up and feeling good about it? Move on to the next step.

✗ Not done this yet? Watch the screen share and follow along. Have your brand colours, font choices, and header image ready before you press play.

You’ll need: your chosen colours (hex codes), logos and font preferences.

You have your colours. You have your fonts. You have your logo files prepped and ready.

Now we put it all together where it actually matters, so that the world you’ve been building in Canva becomes the world people actually arrive in.

This is the moment it starts to feel real in a completely different way. Obviously it will take time to build your post library, but when you refresh your page and it looks like you - like someone made intentional choices, like there’s a world here worth exploring - something shifts. You’ll feel it.

In this screen share I’m walking you through customising your Substack visual theme — your background colour, your accent colour, your fonts, your workmark etc, and the other visual details that pull everything together into one cohesive world.