Branding your Learnient account
Branding controls what your people see before they see any content: the name in the page title, the logos, the colour on every button, and the panel beside the sign-in form.
Where it is
Section titled “Where it is”Choose Admin, then Workspace and Branding.
Name and logos
Section titled “Name and logos”Platform display name is required and appears in page titles, emails and learner-facing copy. Leave it blank to fall back to the default platform name.
It also appears above the default text on your sign-in panel, in place of the Learnient name.
Main logo and Secondary logo both accept JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP and SVG, up to 10MB, at a recommended ratio of 4:1.
That ratio is the thing to get right before uploading. A square logo in a 4:1 space is scaled to fit the height and stranded in the middle, which looks like a mistake rather than a choice.
Brand colour, and why it may not be the colour you see
Section titled “Brand colour, and why it may not be the colour you see”Brand colour applies to buttons and icons.
Learnient may adjust text or background colour around it for contrast, and the screen tells you the rule: the darker your brand colour, the less likely any adjustment is. A pale brand colour is the case where what you set and what you see diverge, because the platform is protecting legibility rather than ignoring you.
If a colour is not rendering as you expect, that is the first thing to check — and choosing a darker shade of the same hue is usually the fix.
The sign-in panel
Section titled “The sign-in panel”Login background is the image panel beside the sign-in form. You can add one from Stock, Gallery, Upload, AI generate or a Link, and with no image it falls back to a colour derived from your brand colour.
Three settings shape it:
| Setting | Choice |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Mesh, Sheen, Duo, Grid, Bokeh, Grain |
| Overlay text | None, Live text, or baked into the image |
| Scrim | Off, Soft or Strong |
Live text is the one to pick. Text baked into an image cannot be read by a screen reader and blurs on a different screen size. The product marks it recommended for that reason.
If you have never changed this setting, it shows Live text with the fields empty, because that is what your sign-in page has been showing all along.
Scrim is the dimming behind the text. If the words are hard to read over a busy photograph, raise the scrim rather than changing the photograph.
Which language the sign-in panel text appears in
Section titled “Which language the sign-in panel text appears in”Live text has three fields: Eyebrow, Headline and Subtext. What you type into them appears exactly as written, in every language, because Learnient does not translate your own words.
Leave all three blank and the panel shows Learnient’s default text instead, translated into each person’s language, with your platform display name as the eyebrow. The greyed-out text in the empty fields is what will appear.
The default only applies when all three are blank. Once you type into one field, the others stay empty rather than filling with default text, so either write all three or leave all three blank.
If your people work in more than one language, leaving the fields blank is how to give everyone the panel in their own language. The preview beside the settings shows the panel as people will see it.
Default text styles for courses
Section titled “Default text styles for courses”The bottom of the screen sets how text looks in courses by default — Title, Heading, Subheading, Assessment heading, Body and Callout, each with a font family, size, weight and colour.
These are defaults rather than rules. An author can give one course its own colours and fonts from Design in its settings, and turning that off puts the course back to whatever you set here.
Setting these once is what stops twenty courses each looking slightly different, and it is the setting most worth doing before anybody starts authoring rather than after.
What happens when you save
Section titled “What happens when you save”Save changes applies across the account. The name, logos and colour take effect everywhere they are used.
The text styles behave differently, and the screen says so: they set the default style for text components when creating courses. So changing them shapes what gets built next rather than rewriting courses that already exist.
Courses already built keep the look they were made with until you ask for the change. Open one and its Design section says Your branding has changed since this course was made — tick Bring this course onto our current branding when I save, save, and that course takes your new colours and fonts. Leave it unticked and the course is left alone, however often you open it. See Setting a course’s cost, language and look.