Hi all, we recently started using Discourse for our game and we’re loving it. However, we hit a small snag with our logo, is it possible to make our logo bigger? https://forum.monsterandme.net/

You‘re logo seems to be the problem :wink: How about redesigning it into another aspect ratio?

We are using this. Is it not in the correct aspect ratio? [BannerMnMBlueNix2]

In my POV, you’re logo is represented due to the centered objects (font / text and the „dragon/bird“ (?)). The face bubbles are additional design elements. You’re „real“ logo has an square aspect ratio. This is incompatible with the default Discourse theme. I would suggest you, to crop it down or r…

The central logo is taller than it is wide, making it difficult to use in horizontal elements. You could try this sort of layout: :bird: Monster&Me All on same line, roughly the same height. It would also help if there wasn’t such a large discrepancy in line-height between the “M” and the rest of…

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Thanks for the replies but I was actually thinking about something like this: https://forum.ludia.com/ How are they doing that (their logo in the top middle of their forum and it’s also a lot bigger)?

Looks like they added some custom HTML & CSS to add their own logo and menu above the default elements: [CloudApp] The orange box is the new header they added, the red box is normal Discourse.

Thanks, 1 final question, how do you add a description for your category? I accidentally deleted it and can’t seem to figure out how to readd it. (Talk about the description for the bugs and troubleshooting category) https://forum.monsterandme.net/

Category description topics can’t be edited, there’s protection against this in the UI. What happens if you open the category settings and hit the button to edit it from there?

Changing our logo to fit Discourse requirements?

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cjk77 (Chris Klugewicz) April 4, 2019, 12:03pm 9

Looks like they added some custom HTML & CSS to add their own logo and menu above the default elements:

The orange box is the new header they added, the red box is normal Discourse.

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