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Meagan Francis's avatar

Well, I'll be danged. After struggling with this FAR longer than my tech- and design-limited brain could really tolerate, this solution WORKED.

I'm sad to have lost the little kettle graphic in my header, but not as sad as I was every time I opened my own Substack and had to squint to even SEE the header...

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Christine Koh's avatar

I'm thrilled this worked for you!

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April Edwards's avatar

This is super helpful! And now I know what writing task I'm going to work on tomorrow afternoon.

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Christine Koh's avatar

It looks like you have a custom header! I didn't see it yesterday when you posted so did this how-to solve the problem for you? I hope so!

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April Edwards's avatar

yes! Thank you for your detailed advice and screenshots. I had tried to set it up a year ago and gave up in frustration. But after reading your post I was able to create a new one and put it up in just a short time. Thank you!!

And the font "Brightwall" is one of my personal favorites, so I hope it doesn't seem like I am copying you. 😜😁

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Christine Koh's avatar

Hooray! I am thrilled to hear it. And I am not proprietary about fonts! :-)

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charlene prince birkeland's avatar

Thank you to infinity and beyond. I read this and I had flashbacks to replacing my blog header iona ago and trying to get it right but just not. ever. I am hopeful to getting closer on Substack :)

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Christine Koh's avatar

OMG that was a thing! I hope this helps you!

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John Frederick's avatar

OMG, Christine, I can't begin to estimate the time and aggravation the Wordmark caused me. Your help was greatly appreciated. I finally cracked the case with your assistance. Thank you!

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Christine Koh's avatar

I’m so glad it worked for you! The whole situation is bonkers!

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Emma Parnell's avatar

Interesting to find your post about this. I wondered if you experienced what I did. Mine is fine on desktop but it doesn't resize for mobile so it gets covered up by the 'subscribe' button. Any bright ideas?!

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Christine Koh's avatar

Yes, the mobile problem seems universal from my preliminary checking of various working (on desktop) wordmarks. I didn’t see mobile settings when I was working on this so it may be a bigger substack backend issue.

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Emma Parnell's avatar

Yeah I think so too. Fairly annoying.

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Christine Koh's avatar

Agree, feels basic! (As does the ability to upload and see a wordmark based on the specs provided LOL.)

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Dounia Pajoheshfar's avatar

SO helpful- was glad to see I wasn't the only one too!

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Christine Koh's avatar

Hooray! I’m so glad it’s helpful!

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Robert M. Hester's avatar

Thank you, that worked for me also.

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Christine Koh's avatar

Wonderful -- I'm so happy to hear it!

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Sam Burgess's avatar

I just wish I could get mine to work on mobile view! They don’t seem to auto size

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Christine Koh's avatar

Yes, I couldn’t find a mobile setting either!

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

I’ve had success dragging the design to the edges and dragging it instead of uploading. Go figure! 😂

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Christine Koh's avatar

OMG I AM DEAD. lol

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

✨😅

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Rukmini Iyer's avatar

Thank you so much, this saved me!

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