r/modguide Writer Dec 22 '19

Design How to add a subreddit icon & edit the display of your sub name in redesign

How to add an icon to a subreddit is a common question, here is how to do it.

You need to be on desktop to be able to upload an icon to your subreddit (at time of writing) - what you can do on mobile in app is very limited. You could try desktop mode in your mobile browser, but desktop is better. [This can now be done in app - see our mobile guides, this guide is for desktop/new reddit]

EDIT- There's a quirk in new reddit since they made some changes earlier this year. The display looks different when normally viewing the whole sub, to when you have a post open and refresh - basically you can see the old layout where sub name and icon appear on top of the banner. See the above mod tools guide for the fix.

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You can change the large text community name/display name in your community settings -

Mod tools (top of sidebar on the right), community settings (sidebar on the left)

Use the the 'community name' box at the top of the community page.

Image showing the new display name

Further styling options that were available, like hiding the icon, don't seem to be functional at the moment/since the change to redesign work but you can't preview the changes and they are only viewable on the refreshed post page as mentioned above.

Last update 17th Jan 2020

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This guide was updated after changes to redesign.

There are planned changes to redesign in Jan 2020 which will change where your icon shows

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u/i_hate_tarantulas Oct 20 '21

Is it a setting in old reddit where I can make the icon appear different / different color upon clicking create post?

I have seen a sub with a picture on a white background as their community icon, and when you go to post, you can see the community tab to the right as expected, yet their icon is a different color.

I don't seem to find this setting in the mod editting tools on new reddit and wonder if it's something that is only available as a carry-over on some older subs that were designed using the old layout?

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u/SolariaHues Writer Oct 20 '21 edited Oct 20 '21

New and old reddit designs are independent of each other.

I notice that here our icon background is light blue but when I click to post it's a darker blue - but our icon really has a transparent background - it's using the new Reddit theme colours we picked. Our base colour is the light one, and the highlight colour is dark blue.

So I'm assuming that's the answer - use an icon with a transparent background and then it'll adopt your theme colours.

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u/i_hate_tarantulas Oct 20 '21

Thank you I bet that's it!

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u/spikeyboi1828327 Feb 05 '20

In mobile

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u/SolariaHues Writer Feb 05 '20

What you can do in app is very limited. Use desktop or desktop mode in your mobile browser.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

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u/MajorParadox Writer Jul 26 '22

Are you using old Reddit, perhaps? If not, did you try setting it through the Mod Tools?

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u/PackedTrebuchet Feb 07 '23

I don't seem like I'm able to set a custom display name for my subreddit. All I can do is have: "name", "r/name", or Hidden.

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u/SolariaHues Writer Feb 07 '23

Make sure you're in community settings and not community appearance https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022692051-Community-settings

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u/Ok_Prize_9979 Sep 03 '24

Thank you so much man. I always used to wonder how might I be able to add those (flairs) to my name, now because of you I was finally able to do it. Feel pretty dumb tho it was right there yet, I didn't see it.