Creating a custom badge for your GitHub App

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You can replace the default badge on your GitHub App by uploading your own logo image and customizing the background.

About badges

Every GitHub App has a badge. A badge is a square image inside a circular background.

By default, a new GitHub App will use an automatically generated identicon as a badge. An identicon badge looks something like this:

Screenshot of an identicon, which consists of white pixels in a random pattern on a circular yellow background.

After you register a GitHub App, you can customize your app's badge by uploading a logo and selecting a background color. Your logo should be a PNG, JPG, or GIF file under 1 MB in size. For the best quality rendering, we recommend an image dimension of 200 pixels by 200 pixels.

For more information about badges for GitHub Apps in GitHub Marketplace, see "Writing a listing description for your app." You can change a custom badge for a GitHub App that already has an approved Marketplace listing by navigating to https://github.com/marketplace/manage.

Creating a custom badge

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo.

  2. Navigate to your account settings.

    • For a GitHub App owned by a personal account, click Settings.
    • For a GitHub App owned by an organization:
      1. Click Your organizations.
      2. To the right of the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Developer settings.

  4. In the left sidebar, click GitHub Apps.

  5. To the right of the GitHub App you want to modify, click Edit.

  6. Under "Display information", drag and drop an image from a local folder or click Upload a logo to select an image from your computer.

  7. Optionally, crop your image.

  8. Click Set new avatar.

  9. Under "Badge background color", type the hexadecimal color code of the background color for your badge.

    Note: The "Badge background color" input field will only appear after you upload a logo.

Next steps

For more information about listing your GitHub App in GitHub Marketplace, see "Listing an app on GitHub Marketplace."