Profile appearance — coloured nick, badge and GIFs

Where to set it up

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1. Open your profile and click Edit profile.
2. Pick a tab: Appearance for the avatar and banner, Nick colour, or Badge.
3. Click Save.

Nick colour and badge can also be set in your account, under Settings.

Nick colour

First pick a brush:

• Solid brush — one of the ready colours or your own via the “+” button.
• Gradient brush — a ready gradient (Rainbow, Fire, Ocean and others) or your own of two or three colours.

Then click Fill the whole nick, or drag the brush across letters to paint only those. This way your nick can mix several colours. The post preview at the top of the tab shows how others will see it.

Undo strokes returns the nick to the last fill, and No colour brings back the plain white nick. Your own colours and gradients are saved in the palette.

Subscriber badge

The badge sits next to your nick. By default it is the JF mark in your nick colour. You can upload your own picture instead: GIFs up to 256 KB, other formats up to 4 MB, and you can crop it after uploading. Your last three badges are kept so you can switch between them. If you don't want a badge, choose Hide.

Hovering the badge shows “JustFollow subscriber”, and clicking it opens the subscription page.

Animated avatar and banner

On the Appearance tab click your avatar or banner and choose a GIF. For subscribers the GIF is uploaded as is, without cropping, so the animation is kept.

Without a subscription you can still pick a GIF, but only its first frame will stay in your profile.

To make your profile look good:

• choose short looping GIFs;
• keep the file light: the lighter it is, the faster your profile opens for others, especially on phones;
• use a wide picture for the banner, about three times wider than tall — 1500 × 500 px is recommended.

Where it shows

Your nick colour, badge and animated avatar show in the feed, in comments and in your profile. The animated banner shows in your profile header.