Glow Effects

Dashboard → Profile → Colors & fonts → Glow. A colored halo behind the parts of your page you want to carry light.

Glow is per element, not one setting for the page. What glows lists the elements of your card:

• Display name
• Handle (@username)
• Location
• Languages
• Social icons
• Badges
• Link text
• Link border

And Page headings, the titles over the pages below your card. Each has its own switch, its own color and its own strength.

The switch in the header of the Glow card turns glow on for your whole page, with its color, strength and pulse. Each element's own switch sits where that element lives: your display name, handle and location under What glows on the same card, link text, link borders and social icons under Links → Look, badges under Make your badges glow at the foot of the Badges screen, and page headings under Pages → Style. Switch on just the ones you want: saved with Glow on and nothing chosen, every element glows at once, which is rarely what you want.

1. 1Go to Profile → Colors & fonts
2. 2Turn on the switch in the header of Glow
3. 3Turn on the element you want: under What glows for your name, handle or location, or where the element lives for links, badges and headings
4. 4Leave it on the main color or press Main color to give it its own, and set its strength beside it
5. 5Press Save

Strength, from 1 to 100%, is the main one, and each element can override it. An element's own slider reads Main at its start, and there it follows the main strength; drag it and it stops.

Color works the same way: an element follows Glow color until you give it its own, and Reset beside its color hands it back.

Pulse fades the glow in and out, at a Pulse speed from 1 to 10 seconds. It applies to every glowing element together.

The card's own glow is a look: Neon, under Look on Profile → Card, draws an outline glowing in one color around the card and every panel under it.

Turning on link glow also removes the tint behind each link row and the plate behind its icon, so the glow reads against your background instead of against a box.

• One or two elements. Seven glowing things is a blur, not an effect
• Match the glow color to your accent, or contrast it hard. Halfway looks accidental
• Glow on light text over a light background reads as a printing fault
• A slow pulse is atmosphere. A fast one is a warning light