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Designing your client

Your client is the app your members open, the space they actually live in. This guide shows you how to make it unmistakably yours: your colours, your logo, your voice. When someone opens it, it should feel like your community, not a product with your name bolted on.

What you'll accomplish

  • Set your community's colours and upload your logos
  • Preview the client wearing your brand as you edit
  • Publish the new look to everyone at once

How long it takes

Ten minutes for a first pass. You can refine it endlessly without anyone seeing a half-finished version.

Before you start

  • Your colours, ideally as hex codes (like #2E7D32) if you have a brand. If you don't, pick what feels right; you can adjust anytime.
  • Your logos, as image files. A light version and a dark version if you have them, so the space looks right in both light and dark mode.

The steps

Open your community's appearance settings

Go to Identity → Appearance. This is where every visual choice about your community lives.

The appearance customizer: sections for Colors, Assets, Welcome text, and Moderation, with Save draft and Publish.
Your brand, editable as a draft — Colors, Assets, Welcome text, and more — then Publish when you're ready.

Set your colours

Choose your primary colour first. It's the one members see most, on buttons and highlights. Then set your secondary and accent colours to round out the palette. The preview updates to match as you go.

Upload your logos and imagery

Add your logo (light and dark versions), a favicon (the little icon in the browser tab), and any splash or social imagery you want shown when your community is shared. This is what turns a generic app into your front door.

Your domain is already connected

The client opens at the address you connected during signup (for example connect.sunroom.garden). It's linked to your brand automatically, so there's nothing to set up here.

Preview as you edit

A live preview sits beside the controls, showing the client wearing your new brand as you change it, so you see exactly what members will see. Everything stays a private draft until you publish; your members keep the current look the whole time.

Publish

When you're happy, Publish. That's the moment your members see the new look, all at once, cleanly, with no half-finished states along the way.

What your members see

Before you publish: nothing changes, and they keep the current look. The instant you publish: they open the community and it's wearing your new brand. Same space, same people, freshly dressed.

What's next