Brand Centre
Brand Centre overview
Where you define the themes that brand every public-facing surface in Gleo — small surface, very high leverage.
Brand Centre is small but high-leverage. It's where you define themes — the colours, fonts, and logos that brand every public-facing surface Gleo produces on your behalf. Set a good company default once, and every public prep page, public template page, and shared session you ever produce inherits it automatically.
Open Brand Centre from the user menu in the top-right of the app.
What Brand Centre controls
Brand Centre defines themes. Each theme bundles together:
Colours
A primary colour (required) and an optional secondary. Drives buttons, accents, headers, and links on themed surfaces.
Fonts
A heading font and a body font, drawn from web-safe stacks or the Google Fonts library.
Logos
One or more logo uploads (PNG / JPEG / SVG / GIF). Themed surfaces show your logo where Gleo would otherwise show its own.
Default flag
A single per-company default. Used as the fallback wherever no more-specific theme has been set.
The full editor walkthrough is in Creating and editing themes.
Where themes show up
Themes drive public, externally-facing surfaces — the pages a participant or stakeholder sees. The internal facilitator UI keeps Gleo's own chrome regardless. The two main public surfaces themes affect:
- Public prep pages — the link a participant follows to do pre-work for a session.
- Public template pages — the shareable preview of a Playbook Template (used for the Marketplace and for sending links to potential customers).
These are the surfaces where your brand needs to win. Brand Centre is what makes that happen without designer intervention every time.
Who can use Brand Centre
Brand Centre is for workspace owners and admins. If your role doesn't include those permissions, Brand Centre won't appear in your user menu — and any side-door attempt to open the editor will be politely refused. If you need a theme change but you're not an admin, ask the workspace owner to make it for you.
Brand Centre also needs a workspace to belong to. A free-floating user without an organisation won't see it at all. See Profile setup for how Forge wires you to a workspace.
How themes get picked at runtime
Brand Centre defines the themes — but the choice of which theme renders on a given public page resolves through a five-level priority chain. The short version:
Session theme → Session Template theme → Playbook Template theme → Playbook theme → Company default (set in Brand Centre)
Highest priority on the left. The Company default — your Brand Centre fallback — is the catch-all at the bottom. Set it once, and most surfaces will never need to override it. The full mechanics, with worked examples and a debugging recipe for "wrong colours" issues, are in Theme priority chain — and a Brand-Centre-oriented walk is in Theme inheritance.
Walkthrough
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Open Brand Centre
Click your avatar in the top-right and choose Brand Centre. (Not visible? See "Who can use Brand Centre" above.)
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Read the theme list
Brand Centre opens to a split view: the list of themes on the left, the editor on the right. The default theme has a badge.
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Inspect a theme
Click any row to load it into the editor. You can preview colours, see the uploaded logos, and review the default-status checkbox.
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See where it renders
Open any public prep page or public template page in your workspace; the theme that resolves through the priority chain is what's rendered. If it's a brand-new playbook you haven't customised, the company default applies.
Tips & pitfalls
Do this on day one. Brand Centre is the single highest-leverage setup task — every public page you produce afterwards will be themed for free. Re-theming after you've already published a body of public-facing playbook templates is more work than doing it once at the start.
You're branding what participants see, not what you see. The internal facilitator UI stays in Gleo's own colours regardless of theme. If you're testing your theme, do it on the public prep page or public template page — that's where it matters.