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The top of your profile — the band behind your picture and your name — can carry a colour of its own, with a repeating emoji worked into it.
This is a different setting from the colour your name takes in chats, and it is read at a different moment: when somebody has opened you deliberately and is deciding something.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Set the colour behind your profile header.
- check_circle Add a pattern without hurting legibility.
- check_circle Tell this apart from the in-chat name colour.
- check_circle Decide whether your profile benefits at all.
The header colour and its pattern are chosen separately from the name colour used in conversations.
badge Two colours, two audiences
The name colour works in passing. It appears in group conversations where nobody is looking at you specifically, and its job is to make your messages easy to pick out.
The profile colour works on arrival. Somebody has tapped your name because they are deciding whether to write to you, whether you are the person they were told about, or whether your channel is worth following. They are on your page for a few seconds and the header is the first thing in front of them.
Because of that, the useful question is not what looks good but what the page is for. A profile used for work benefits from looking deliberate. A private account that nobody opens without already knowing you gains nothing from a banner.
Whose profile this actually improves
Two of the four are genuinely better for it. The other two are welcome to it for a different reason.
work It earns its place
person It changes nothing
The header is read by people deciding about you. Legible and consistent beats striking.
settings Setting it
- Open the profile colour setting Separate from the name colour.
- Ask who opens your profile If it is only people who know you, skip it.
- Match whatever else you run A channel, a shop, a brand.
- Add one simple pattern Or none at all.
- Read your own bio afterwards If it is harder to read, change it back.
- Set a channel's header once it unlocks That page decides subscriptions.
This page decorates the header. The curriculum step is the substance underneath: what your profile shows to strangers, which parts you can hide, and how much of an identity a public page should carry.
At a glance
- 1Profile colour
Set the colour behind your profile header.
- 2Keep it legible
Choose patterns that keep your name readable.
- 3Not name colour
This is separate from the colour in chats.
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