Customize your font, text colors and upload a custom background image or logo to your course certificate!
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In this article:
Overview
When creating a certificate, you'll see a Design tab where you can select your desired font as well as 3 colors that are used for your certificate text. If you have a custom background image and logo, they can also be added here!
Font and Colors
You can select from several fonts in the font dropdown menu within the Design tab of your certificate. There will also be 3 color options available that are used for text throughout your certificate:
- Primary text color
- Secondary text color
- Tertiary text color
Don't forget that you need to click Save on the top right to apply the changes. If you are just exploring and prefer to keep the original colors, you can always click Discard changes!
Background Image
We have included a choice of certificate templates for you to choose from that include a default background, but if you have a custom background you prefer to use, you can easily upload it!
How to Upload a Background Image
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Certificates
- Click on your desired certificate or create a new certificate
- Select the Design tab
- Under Background image, click Upload
- Select or Drag & drop your desired image (File size limit of 4mb. Uploading larger image files may impact student access to the certificate. Recommended size is 1123 x 794 and supported file types are JPG, JPEG, and PNG)
- Crop if needed
- Click Save
- Click Upload
- Click Save on the top right
Tips for Uploading Your Own Background Image
When uploading your own background image, we recommend choosing your template first. You'll want to choose a template with text alignment and spacing that closely fits your custom background image. The text alignment is based on the chosen template and is not currently customizable, so you'll want to make sure that the template you have selected works well with your background!
To help with alignment when designing your custom background, you can download the default template background image to refer to in your graphic design software of choice!
- In your Certificate settings, select the Design tab
- Under Background image, click the download icon (rectangle image with down arrow)
- This will open the image in a new tab
- Right click the image and select Save image as to download it!
Logo
You can also upload your own logo to your certificate!
How to Upload a Logo
- Go to Support Your Students
- Select Certificates
- Click on your desired certificate or create a new certificate
- Select the Design tab
- Under Logo (optional), click Upload
- Select or Drag & drop your desired image (Recommended dimensions are 130 x 130px and supported file types are JPG, JPEG, and PNG)
- Click Upload
- Click Save on the top right
And that's it!
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