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How to create and format a Medium publication’s logo

Casey Botticello
Blogging Guide
Published in
4 min readDec 30, 2019

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Source: Casey Botticello of Blogging Guide

Medium publications can be customized in many ways. One of the most important details that publication owners and editors should customize is the Medium publication logo.

The Medium publication logo is the image which appears at the top of all your publication’s stories.

For example, in my publication, Blogging Guide, you can see the following image at the top of all the articles contained in my publication:

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My publication logo.

The Medium publication logo is 72px tall and can have a maximum width of 600px. Medium suggests that you make this logo transparent. And this is indeed a good idea.

One way around creating an actual transparent file is to match the color of your navigation bar to the same color as your logo’s background.

For example, let’s say I had made the same publication logo, but with a red background:

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