https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/djbg69/how_to_add_a_banner/
created by SolariaHues on 17/10/2019 at 19:37 UTC*
22 upvotes, 3 top-level comments (showing 3)
(Edit: A few images in this guide will look different to how your sub looks - reddit changed the look of redesign in Jan 2020)
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/d8nuyz/design_in_redesign/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/dz7kzx/an_introduction_to_css/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/hgcdfc/adding_a_banner_on_mobile/
You can either make one from scratch or use found images.
Make sure you have the copyright or permission to use the images. Sites like freepik offer some free to use images if you give credit, for example.
Recommended image sizes:
PNG or JPG only.
There's no limit on banner dimensions for old.reddit, and banners can look different on different size screens (users could be using anything from i-pads to ultra wide screens). You can change how your banner displays by editing your sub's CSS.
It's suggested old.reddit banners generally be wide and short.
Stick anything important towards the **left**, unless you plan to center the banner with css, as old reddit automatically aligns banners to the left. This means if using a small screen, the right might get cut off. Another option is using a design that would look OK if it started to tile horizontally.
Stick anything important in the center as redesign automatically centers the banner. For smaller screens both ends will start to be cut off.
I tend to make **4000 x 208** banners.
For more more details, resources and information that's kept up to date see r/bannerrequest's wiki pages - https://www.reddit.com/r/BannerRequest/wiki/index/artguide[7][8]
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/BannerRequest/wiki/index/artguide
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/BannerRequest/wiki/index/artguide
Or if you subreddit meets the requirements at r/bannerrequest, request a banner, or other subreddit graphics there.
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Comment by D-to-theman at 28/11/2019 at 07:16 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Have a guide for mobile users?
Comment by [deleted] at 06/02/2020 at 03:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Ok. Here's what I found as far as what shows for banner on mobile Reddit.
The banner you put in on new-Reddit is inherited by the mobile browser view, but may get vertically stretched to fill the space, and it is inherited by the app view as well.
In new-Reddit, where you load in the banner, if you scroll down there's a place for a specific "mobile banner" which goes to mobile browser view and overrides the desktop banner there, but it does not to go the app view.
The old-Reddit sub settings screen also has a place to put in a mobile banner, and I didn't play around with that but I assume it also goes to the mobile broswer but probably not the app. The pixel dimensions it says to use there is smaller than what the new-Reddit equivalent recommends, though it's the same height/width ratio.
Incidentally, since I'm on the subject, IIRC the app inherits the sub icon from new-Reddit, but the mobile browser view gets it from the old-Reddit sub settings screen. If you don't put one in where it asks for a mobile icon, it uses whatever you have for the header image, i.e. the thing that has the Snoo and "Reddit" by default but most subs changed into a variant of that or even something totally different.
Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2023 at 18:32 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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