Your brand

Upload a logo, choose interface and gauge colors, and control which listener, host, and overlay surfaces use them.

Where branding applies

Branding is switched on per surface, so you can brand what your audience sees without repainting your own working screen.

SettingsCustom Branding

Public voting page: Applies your logo and colors to the live page your audience uses.
My host dashboard: Applies your accent and gauge ramp to the live gauge panel only. Segments, notes, polls, roll call, and suggestions keep their HeatCheck colors.
Stream overlays Set per overlay: Not a switch here — each overlay chooses HeatCheck or Your brand in its own settings, because an overlay sits on top of your video and may need to fight a different background than your page does. Manage that choice in Settings → Stream overlays.

Switching a surface off never loses your design

Your colors are kept either way — turning a surface off just shows the HeatCheck default there.

Your logo

Shown in place of the initials mark at the top of your page, and available as an overlay widget.

PNG, JPEG, or WebP: choose a source up to 15 MB, crop it to a square, and HeatCheck stores the cropped result up to 1 MB.
SVG: upload up to 1 MB. Vector logos skip the raster cropper.
Preview it at the small header size. A compact mark usually reads more clearly than a long wordmark in the square frame.
Already have one on YouTube? Connecting your channel during setup takes its picture as your logo, so there is nothing to upload. It only happens there, and only when you have no logo yet — connecting a channel from Settings later never replaces one you chose.

The logo overlay widget needs this uploaded first

An overlay with the logo widget switched on and no logo uploaded renders nothing at all — the widget drops out rather than showing a broken image. If your overlay is missing its ident, this is why.

Accent and gauge colors

Accent color

The single color that carries your identity through the interface — buttons, links, highlights, and active states. Pick a preset or use the custom color control. Changes save automatically after a short delay.

Gauge colors

The gauge’s arc is a gradient that runs cold to hot, and you can choose a preset or set custom Start and End colors. HeatCheck derives the two intermediate stops so the complete ramp remains smooth.

Test the gauge ramp at a low score, not a high one

A ramp designed by looking at a 9.5 often has an indistinguishable bottom half. Drag your own slider down to 2 and check the arc still reads as “cold” rather than as “broken”.

Getting it right

Check both light and dark

Your audience picks their own mode. An accent that sings on dark can vanish on light — look at both before you settle.

Overlays are a separate decision

An accent that works on your page may disappear against your actual video. That is exactly why overlays choose their theme independently: brand your page, then judge each overlay against the footage it will sit on.

Contrast beats fidelity

HeatCheck does not currently enforce a contrast floor for a custom accent. If the exact brand color makes links, buttons, or focus states hard to see, choose a darker or lighter nearby value and test both modes again.

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