Personalize your team

Give each team its own wallpaper and icon so people recognise it at a glance.

Every team in kanman can have its own look: a background and an icon. It is a small thing, but it helps people know at a glance which team they are looking at, especially when a workspace has several teams working on similar repositories.

Where your team’s look appears

  • on the team page, behind the board,
  • on every run page of that team,
  • next to the team name in the list of teams.

Changing the look

You can set the look while you create a team (the optional Look step of the setup, which you can skip) or at any time later on the team’s Settings > Team page, in the card with the team’s look. The same page holds the team’s name and key and, for owners and admins, the danger zone.

Choose a background and an icon. Changes save as soon as you make them, and everyone in the workspace sees them.

Team settings, Team page: the team's look with the background picker and the team icon

Wallpaper

Choose Background image and pick a photo:

  • Search: search free photos from Unsplash directly in the picker.
  • Upload: upload your own image (JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB).
  • My Images: reuse images you uploaded before, or delete them.

With Blur you soften the image behind the board. Photos from Unsplash show the photographer’s name with a link to their profile, as the Unsplash License asks.

Colour or gradient

Instead of a photo, choose Background color for a solid colour or a gradient, or No background.

Icon

Pick an icon from the icon library. It appears next to the team name. Choose something that stands for the team’s area, for example a credit card for a payments team or a shield for a platform security team.

A default look for other teams

One team’s look can serve as the workspace default: teams that have no look of their own then show it, including new teams until someone gives them their own.

  1. Open the team whose look you want to share, then Settings > Team.
  2. Choose Use for teams without their own. The card then says that teams without a look of their own show this one.

To end it, choose Stop using it on the same card. Teams with a look of their own keep it either way. Owners and admins can change the default.

Readability

kanman darkens the background behind the board so that cards stay readable. If you prefer no translucency at all, choose Fewer under See-through surfaces in Look and feel.

The look is purely visual. It never replaces text: team names, story titles and run statuses are always written out.

Last updated: January 1, 0001

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