# Brand your portal

> Set your portal's logo, colours, font, words and legal links in Settings, Branding. Colours are checked for contrast, and nothing changes until you publish.

Source: https://delsivo.com/help/portal-and-branding/branding-your-portal · Updated 2026-11-07

## Key takeaways

- Branding sets the names, logo, colours, font, words and legal links founders see on your portal, in their emails and in their workspace.
- Changes stay in a draft with a live preview. Founders see nothing new until an Admin publishes, and History lets an Admin restore an earlier version.
- Import from your website suggests a logo, mark, colours, font and corners. You tick what to take, it goes into your draft, and you can undo it.
- Every colour pair is checked against WCAG AA in light and dark mode. Publishing needs your fund name and links to your privacy notice and terms.
- Turn on Use your brand in the workspace and your team sees your logo and colours inside Delsivo too.

Branding is how your portal looks and reads to founders: your fund's name, logo, colours, font and words, plus links to your privacy notice and terms. You edit it in **Settings → Branding** with a live preview beside the form. Your edits stay in a draft until an Admin clicks **Publish**, so founders never see a half-finished change.

Publishing the branding doesn't open your portal by itself. To let founders apply, also turn on **Open for applications**. See [Publish your portal](/help/portal-and-branding/publish-your-portal).

## Open the editor

Click **Settings** in the sidebar, then **Branding** under **Portal**. The bar at the top shows where you are:

| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Not published** | Nothing has been published yet |
| **Unsaved changes** | You've changed something since the last save |
| **Draft (version 3)** | A saved draft that founders don't see yet. Next to it: **Founders see version 2 until you publish.** |
| **Live: version 2** | What you see is what founders see |

If nothing has been published, the editor starts from your fund profile: your fund name, the headline **Apply to [your fund]**, your **Focus in one line** as the intro, Delsivo's default colours and the Inter font.

The form is on the left, in four tabs: **Identity**, **Colours**, **Words** and **Legal**. The preview is on the right. Switch it between **Landing**, **Application** and **Email**, between **Light** and **Dark**, and between desktop and phone. The preview always shows your unsaved changes.

## Import from your website

Instead of starting from scratch, let Delsivo read your fund's website and suggest your branding. Only Admins can do this.

1. At the top of the form, under **Import from your website**, check the address. It's filled in from your fund profile's website; type another one if you prefer, such as `example.com`.
2. Click **Import from website**. A tracker shows **Reading the site**, then **Picking colours and logos**, then **Ready to review**. It usually takes under a minute, and you can keep working on the page meanwhile.
3. A panel opens: **Review what we found on example.com**. Each row shows what your portal has **Now** beside what was found on your site, with a checkbox. Rows that would change something are ticked. A row marked **Already yours** has nothing new.
4. Untick anything you don't want and click **Apply to draft**.

What it can suggest:

| Row | What it takes |
|---|---|
| **Logo for light backgrounds** and **Logo for dark backgrounds** | Logos found on your site, saved like an upload |
| **Mark and favicons** | Your site's icon as your mark, with favicons made from it in every size |
| **Background**, **Text**, **Primary**, **Accent** | Colours your site uses, as hex codes |
| **Font** | The closer of **Inter** and **Urbanist** to your site's font. If neither is close, for example a serif font, the panel says so and the font stays as it is |
| **Corners** | Small, medium or large corners, from the rounding your site uses |

The panel may also show **Notes from the AI** (for example, that a colour was converted or no dark logo was found) and a **Not used** list, such as an icon that's only an .ico file or too small. Upload those in the form instead.

After **Apply to draft**:

- You see **Applied to your draft. Check the preview, then publish when you're ready.** with **Undo**, which puts your draft back as it was. Founders see nothing new until you **Publish**.
- If any of the colours fail the [contrast check](#the-contrast-check), nothing is saved yet. The import opens in the editor as unsaved changes on the **Colours** tab, so you can take each suggested shade and then click **Save draft**.
- If another Admin changed the branding since you opened the page, nothing is overwritten. The panel says **Someone changed the branding since you opened it.** Click **Reload and review again** to see their changes with the import still ready to apply.

Some things to know:

- **Import from website** is off while you have unsaved changes. Save or undo them first.
- Delsivo reads only public pages: your home page and up to six of its stylesheets. Addresses inside private networks aren't allowed.
- Your fund can run 10 imports an hour. Each import is recorded in the [activity log](/help/team-and-settings/exports-and-activity-log) with the website's address only.
- The import uses AI, so it counts towards your fund's AI credits, or runs on your fund's own AI key if you've added one.

If your site can't be read you see why, for example **Couldn't load example.com: it took too long to answer. Check the address, or that the site is public.** Click **Try again**, or upload your logo and pick colours by hand.

## What gets your branding

| Where | What's branded |
|---|---|
| Portal header | Your logo, or your name if there's no logo. On a phone, your short name where space is tight |
| Landing page | Headline, intro, **Our thesis**, **What we invest in**, stage and cheque size |
| Application | Your application intro above the form |
| Founder workspace and sign-in | Your logo, colours and font |
| Emails to founders | Your fund name, logo and colours, as in the **Email** preview |
| Footer, on every page | Footer text, privacy notice and terms links, and **Powered by Delsivo** unless your plan hides it |
| Browser tab and shared links | Your favicon, and your **Social image** when you uploaded one. Without one, a share image with your name, logo and headline in your colours |
| Your team's workspace | Your mark in the fund switcher, always. Your logo and colours too when **Use your brand in the workspace** is on (see below) |

The Delsivo sign-in step that founders pass through (accounts.delsivo.app) always uses Delsivo's brand, with your logo and name on the approval screen.

## Identity

| Field | Required | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| **Fund name** | Yes | Up to 80 characters. In the header, page titles and emails |
| **Short name** | No | Up to 40 characters. Used where space is tight, such as the phone header |
| **Logo for light backgrounds** | No | PNG or SVG, up to 2 MB |
| **Logo for dark backgrounds** | No | PNG or SVG, up to 2 MB. Without it, dark mode shows your light logo on a card |
| **Mark** | No | A square symbol for small spaces and the favicon. PNG or SVG, up to 2 MB |
| **Favicon** | No | Click **Make favicons** to make it from your mark (or your logo) in 16, 32, 180, 192 and 512 pixels. **Make again** after you change the mark |
| **Font** | Yes | **Inter** (clear at small sizes, the default) or **Urbanist** (geometric and friendly) |

Click **Upload** to add a file, **Replace** to swap it, or the remove button beside it. Delsivo checks every file by its contents, not its name. SVG files are cleaned of scripts and outside links, and PNG files are saved again without hidden metadata such as location data. PNG images can be at most 4096 pixels on a side.

Fonts are served by Delsivo, so founders' browsers never contact a font service.

## Colours

| Field | What it colours |
|---|---|
| **Background** (required) | The page. Cards and sections are worked out from it |
| **Text** (required) | Body text and headings. Secondary text is mixed from it |
| **Primary** (required) | Buttons, links and the focus ring. The button label and hover colour are chosen for contrast |
| **Accent** | Highlights and illustrations. Used for text only when it has enough contrast; the note under it says which |

Under **Dark mode** you see **Dark background**, **Dark text** and **Dark primary**, marked **Derived** while Delsivo works them out from your colours. Set your own if you prefer; **Use derived value** goes back.

### The contrast check

Every pair below is checked in light mode and in dark mode as you type, and again on the server when you save or publish.

| Pair | Minimum contrast |
|---|---|
| Body text, and text on cards | 4.5:1 |
| Secondary text, on the page and on cards | 4.5:1 |
| Links, on the page and on cards | 4.5:1 |
| Button labels, and button labels on hover | 4.5:1 |
| Text in highlighted boxes | 4.5:1 |
| Success, warning and error messages and text | 4.5:1 |
| Field borders | 3:1 |
| The focus ring | 3:1 |

These are the WCAG AA levels. A failing pair is never adjusted for you. Instead:

- The **Colours** tab shows a count, and the bar at the top says, for example, **2 contrast problems** (click it to jump to the tab).
- The field explains the problem, such as "Links in #00A3A3 on #FFFFFF are 3.10:1. They need 4.5:1." Dark mode problems start with "In dark mode".
- Click **Use suggested shade** to take the nearest shade of the same colour that passes. If no shade of that colour passes, you see **No shade of this colour passes. Pick a different colour.**
- **Save draft** stays off until every pair passes.

## Words

| Field | Limit | Where founders see it |
|---|---|---|
| **Headline** | 160 characters | The landing page heading and shared links. Empty means **Apply to [your fund]** |
| **Intro** | 600 | Two or three sentences under the headline |
| **Thesis summary** | 1,200 | The **Our thesis** box on the landing page |
| **What we invest in** | 1,200 | The **What we invest in** box |
| **Stage** | 200 | A fact card on the landing page, for example "Pre-seed and seed" |
| **Cheque size** | 200 | A fact card, for example "$250k to $1m". Write it in the currency you use |
| **Application intro** | 600 | Above the first step of the application form |
| **Thank-you text** | 600 | After a founder submits, and in the confirmation email, once applications arrive |
| **Footer** | 300 | The footer of every portal page |

Write plain text. Links work and open with nofollow. HTML, CSS and scripts aren't allowed.

## Legal

| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| **Privacy notice** | Yes, to publish | A full link starting with `https://`. Your fund is the controller of founder data, so the portal can't open without it |
| **Terms** | Yes, to publish | A full link starting with `https://` |
| **Social image** | No | PNG or JPEG, cropped to 1200 by 630 pixels. Shown when someone shares a link to your portal (LinkedIn, Slack, email previews) once branding is published. Without one, a share image is drawn from your name, logo and headline |
| **Let search engines find the landing page** | | Off by default. The application, founder workspace and rooms are never indexed |
| **Show "Powered by Delsivo"** | | A small line in the footer. Plans without the remove-badge option keep it on, with **Your plan shows it. Upgrade to hide it.** |

The footer always links to **How Delsivo handles your data**, Delsivo's notice as your processor.

## Save, publish or undo

- **Save draft** keeps your changes for later. You see **Draft saved. Founders still see the published version.**
- **Undo changes** throws away what you've changed since the last save.
- **Discard draft** drops a saved draft. Confirm in **Discard the draft?** with **Discard draft**. The editor goes back to the published version.
- **Publish** opens **Publish this branding?** Add a note under **What changed (for your team, optional)** and click **Publish**. You see **Version 3 is live on your portal.** Founders see it on your portal and in emails straight away. You don't need to save first: unsaved changes are saved as part of publishing.

If something is missing, the dialog is titled **Not ready to publish** and lists every problem, for example **Add a link to your terms.** Each one is also marked in the form. Fix them and click **Publish** again. If nothing has changed since the live version, **Publish** is off.

If you try to leave the page with unsaved changes, Delsivo asks first.

## Your brand in the workspace

Your team can see your brand inside Delsivo as well, not only founders on your portal. At the top of **Settings → Branding**, turn on **Use your brand in the workspace**. It's off until an Admin turns it on.

When it's on, everyone on your team sees:

- Your logo at the top of the sidebar, light or dark to match their theme, and your mark when the sidebar is collapsed. A small **on Delsivo** line sits at the foot of the sidebar.
- Your primary colour on buttons, links, active tabs and highlights.

Pages, cards, text and status colours stay as they are, so deal tables, boards and memos read the same in every fund, and AI suggestions keep their own lilac label. If your primary colour is too light to read as link text, Delsivo uses the nearest darker shade (or lighter, in dark mode) that passes the contrast check.

The workspace always uses your **published** branding, never a draft, so publish first. The switch is off until there's a published version. Turning it off brings back the Delsivo look straight away. Each change is recorded in the [activity log](/help/team-and-settings/exports-and-activity-log).

The fund switcher at the top of the workspace shows each fund's mark whether or not this setting is on: your **Mark**, or your favicon, or your logo, in that order. A fund without any of these shows its initials. If you belong to several funds, each one shows its own mark, and only to people on that fund's team.

Partners, Analysts and Committee members see the setting read only.

## Restore an earlier version

1. Click **History** in the top bar. **Version history** lists every published version, with who published it, when, and their note. The live one is marked **Live**.
2. Click **Restore** on the version you want. You see **That version is now your draft. Check the preview, then publish it.**
3. Check the preview and click **Publish**.

**Restore** is off while you have unsaved changes. Save or undo them first.

## Who can change the branding

Only Admins can edit, save, publish and restore. Partners, Analysts and Committee members open the same page read only, with the preview and history, and the note **Only a fund admin can change the branding. You can look at the preview.** Each publish and restore is recorded in the [activity log](/help/team-and-settings/exports-and-activity-log).

If two Admins edit at once, the second to save sees **Someone else changed the branding since you opened it. Reload to see their changes, then make yours again.** Nobody's work is overwritten without warning.

## Messages you might see

| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| **The file is larger than 2 MB. Export a smaller version and try again.** | Export the logo smaller, or as SVG |
| **Use a PNG or SVG file.** | Logos and the mark take PNG or SVG only |
| **Use a PNG or JPEG for the social image.** | Upload the social image as PNG or JPEG |
| **Enter a hex colour such as #1A1A1A.** | Type a six-digit colour code starting with # |
| **Enter a full address starting with https://** | Paste the whole link to your privacy notice or terms |
| **Use an https:// address.** | Use the secure version of the link |
| **Your plan shows the Powered by Delsivo badge. Upgrade to hide it.** | Leave the badge on, or upgrade your plan |
| **Too many changes in a short time. Try again in a few minutes.** | Wait, then try again |
| **Couldn't load example.com: no such domain (it doesn't resolve).** | Check the spelling of your website's address |
| **Couldn't load example.com: it took too long to answer.** | Try again, or check that the site is public |
| **We couldn't find a logo, colours or fonts on example.com.** | Upload your logo and pick colours by hand |
| **Your fund has run 10 imports in the last hour.** | Wait for the time shown, then try again |

## Frequently asked questions

### Does publishing the branding open our portal?
No. Publishing makes the new branding live, but founders can only apply once an Admin turns on **Open for applications** in **Settings → Domains**. See [Publish your portal](/help/portal-and-branding/publish-your-portal).

### Does importing from our website change the portal straight away?
No. The import fills your draft only after you review it and click **Apply to draft**, and founders see it only when an Admin clicks **Publish**. **Undo** puts the draft back as it was.

### Can we add our own CSS or code?
No. Branding uses your colours, font, logo and words only. Custom CSS and scripts could expose founder data on pages that hold their documents, so they aren't offered.

### Why can't I pick any font?
Fonts come from a short list that Delsivo serves itself. Loading a font from an outside service would tell that service which founders visit your portal.

### Why was my brand colour refused?
One of the pairs that uses it is too low in contrast for some readers. Take the suggested shade, which keeps the same colour family, or pick another colour. Your accent colour is never refused: it is used only where contrast allows.

### Can our team see our brand inside Delsivo?

Yes. An Admin turns on **Use your brand in the workspace** at the top of **Settings → Branding**. Your team then sees your logo in the sidebar and your primary colour on buttons and links. See [Your brand in the workspace](#your-brand-in-the-workspace).

### Can I undo a publish?
Yes. Open **History**, click **Restore** on the earlier version and publish it.