Your Substack, now with more ways to customize
New website design tools are here, with a Mini-Editor to play in and a Full Editor to fine-tune. Plus early examples from publishers.
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Substack introduces new website design tools, including a Mini-Editor and Full Editor, to give users more control over their site's look and feel. These tools offer seven themes, customizable layouts, color palettes, and fonts to help users create a unique site. Substack aims to provide a personalized corner of the internet for its users.
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Your Substack, now with more ways to customize
New website design tools are here: a Mini-Editor to play with and a Full Editor to fine-tune your site
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Today we’re launching new website design tools that give you more control over how your Substack looks and feels.
You shouldn’t have to choose between a site that feels like yours and a place that helps you grow, with the recommendations, the app, and Notes that bring new subscribers to you. These new design tools are built on that idea. As Substack’s head of design, Mills Baker, puts it, Substack is “another bite at the apple,” a chance to take the best of the internet’s past and present, recombine them, and see if they yield something better. In short, Substack is your corner of the internet, and we are building more ways for you to make it look and feel like your own.
What’s new
The updated website editor comes loaded with seven themes to use as a jumping-off point. Within them live a wide range of combinations that make it easy to land on a site that feels like you.
Play in the Mini-Editor: Straight from your publication homepage, you can open a quick-access editor in the bottom-right corner to play with layouts, color palettes, and fonts. Click the dice icon next to any option to randomize it, or hit “Shuffle all” to cycle through combinations fast.
Fine-tune in the Full Editor: The Full Editor lets you shape the look of your Home page, Welcome page, and Post pages. Pick a theme, then adjust your header, hero section, main body, and footer. Choose from suggested color palettes or set your own with the new color picker. Set typefaces for your wordmark, post titles, section titles, and body text. Add a logo or a wordmark image and resize it until it looks just right. Use the preview to see how your site will look on desktop, tablet, and mobile web. (The Substack app has its own layout, so your changes will not appear there.) Your new design won’t go live until you hit save, so feel free to explore at your own pace.
Learn more about customizing your site in our Help Center.
These new tools are the first in a series of improvements we’ll be making in the coming months to give you more control over your site. The goal is to help you take your design to the next level easily and quickly, without sacrificing the network and growth effects that enable your work to find new audiences.
We gave a few publishers early access to the new tools. Here’s how they made their sites their own, along with their tips for getting started:
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick writes The Trend Report™, a weekly newsletter his readers treat like a Sunday paper. “They’re like, ‘I wake up, I read the Trend Report, and I drink coffee,’” Kyle says. That became the brief for the redesign.
His partner in life and business, Bobby Solomon, a longtime designer by trade, does all the design work for the publication. “If your writing is really vibrant but maybe the vessel with which it shows up isn’t vibrant, it can feel a little flat,” Bobby says. They chose the Cinematic theme, which felt closer to the editorial front page of a Sunday paper. Kyle pins the main trend report of the week, so readers land on one striking image that sets the tone and points them to the top story.
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