Branding posts

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Brass seal stamps on a wooden desk
From the blog · May 23, 2026
Favicons Generated From Your Initials

Every site now has a favicon: the small icon in a browser tab, a bookmark and a phone home screen.

Paint brushes beside color chips and plans
From the blog · Jan 24, 2026
Pick Your Own Color Scheme

Every design now takes two colors from you: an accent and a background. They flow through links, buttons, headings, your email signature and your business card.

Two card designs side by side on wood
From the blog · Aug 23, 2025
Business Card Layouts, Refreshed

The card layouts have been redrawn. There are six now, all of them tested at actual print size rather than designed on a screen at four times the size they will ever be seen at.

The nib of a fountain pen, close up
From the blog · Jul 19, 2025
Push Your Signature Straight to Gmail

If you use Gmail, your signature can now be installed directly from the builder. Authorize once, press a button, and it is in your account.

A portrait overlaid with a landscape double exposure
From the blog · Jul 12, 2025
Photo Overlays and Shapes

The signature photograph now has treatment options: a border in your accent color, a soft duotone overlay, a rounded rectangle mask, and the circle covered in circular photos.

A round gold mirror on a dark interior wall
From the blog · Jul 5, 2025
Circular Photos in Your Signature

Every signature layout with a photograph now offers a circular crop as well as a square one. It sounds like a checkbox. It took considerably longer than a checkbox.

A clean diagonal split of blue and white
From the blog · Jun 28, 2025
The Final Two Modernist Signature Layouts

The last two layouts are live, which completes the set of eight in the signature builder. Portrait Right Text on the left, photograph on the right.

A grid of pastel color blocks
From the blog · Jun 28, 2025
Two More Signature Layouts

Two further layouts are live in the signature builder, bringing the set to six. Grid Cells Contact details arranged in two columns of small labeled cells rather than a run of lines.

A plain white card on a woven mat
From the blog · Jun 21, 2025
Two New Signature Layouts

Two more layouts have been added to the signature builder. Both use a horizontal rule as their organizing element, which turns out to be the most reliable piece of structure available in an email client.

Someone working at a clean desk with a monitor
From the blog · Jun 14, 2025
Introducing the Email Signature Builder

There is a new tool in your admin that builds an email signature from the profile you have already filled in: your name, your headshot, your links, your representation.

Hands holding a phone against a yellow ground
From the blog · Nov 9, 2024
Control How Your Site Looks When Shared

Paste a link to your actor website into a message, a post or an email and the platform builds a little preview card: an image, a title, a line of text.

A man being photographed between two studio lights
From the blog · Oct 5, 2024
Your Profile, Rebuilt

Your profile is the source of almost everything on your actor website. It fills your bio page, your header, your contact details, your email signature and your press kit.