Brand
The branding settings cover the core visual identity of your publication. These are native Ghost settings that reflect globally across your site, and Meridian honours every one of them.
Accent color
The accent color is used to highlight key elements across your site — links inside articles, the "Save story" filled-bookmark glyph, the underline under active filter chips, and the focus ring on every interactive control. It also flows through to Ghost's native comments widget.
Open Design & Branding
Go to Settings → Design & branding in Ghost Admin and click Customize.
Choose your accent color
Under Brand → Accent color, click the color picker and choose a new color.
Save changes
Click Save to apply the change.
Single value across light and dark mode
Ghost's accent color is a single value applied to both light and dark modes. Pick one with adequate contrast on both your light and dark paper tones — body text and surface tokens already clear WCAG AAA on every Background palette preset, so the accent just needs to read clearly on both.
Publication icon
The Publication icon is used to visually identify your site in the Ghost Portal, browser tabs (favicon), and search results.
Open Design & Branding
Go to Settings → Design & branding in Ghost Admin and click Customize.
Upload your icon
Under Brand → Publication icon, click the icon area and select your image file. A square 512×512 PNG works best.
Publication logo
The Publication logo is displayed in the site masthead. If no logo is uploaded, your site title is rendered as wordmark text in the heading font.
Open Design & Branding
Go to Settings → Design & branding in Ghost Admin and click Customize.
Upload your logo
Under Brand → Publication logo, click the logo area and select your logo file.
Save changes
Click Save to apply the change.
Logo tips
To ensure your brand looks its best in Meridian, we recommend:
- Orientation — a horizontal logo suits the masthead best.
- Dimensions — minimum height 32 pixels; the theme automatically serves a
2xsrcset entry to retina screens. - Background — a transparent PNG or SVG is recommended so the logo sits cleanly on every paper palette.
- Dark mode — see the Dark mode logo theme setting below if your primary logo has dark text that becomes hard to read in dark mode.
Publication cover
The Publication cover is used as the Open Graph image when someone shares your homepage on social media or in chat apps.
Open Design & Branding
Go to Settings → Design & branding in Ghost Admin and click Customize.
Upload your cover
Under Brand → Publication cover, click the cover area and select your image file. 1200×630 is the safe Open Graph size.
Typography
Ghost's Design & branding panel includes a custom-font picker for Heading font and Body font. Meridian honours this picker — whatever you choose here is loaded and applied as the site's typefaces.
Open Design & Branding
Go to Settings → Design & branding in Ghost Admin and click Customize.
Choose your fonts
Under Typography, choose your preferred heading and body fonts from the pickers.
Save changes
Click Save to apply the change.
Meridian ships its own curated typefaces
Meridian also includes its own Font heading and Font body theme settings (under Site wide), with 11 self-hosted variable fonts picked specifically for editorial reading — Source Serif 4, Newsreader, Fraunces, Roboto Slab, Inter, Literata, EB Garamond, IBM Plex Sans, Public Sans, Charter, and a System Serif fallback. These are the curated default.
Precedence: when Ghost's custom-font picker is set, it wins. When it's empty (the default), Meridian's font_heading / font_body settings apply. See Site wide settings.
Installation
You can upload, activate, and manage Meridian directly from Ghost Admin. This is where you control the design and appearance of your publication.
Site wide
Settings under Theme → Site wide in Ghost Admin — color mode, paper tone, editorial typography, dark-mode logo, and the post-page member CTA copy.