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title: Customizing the PDFs that Checklick Generates (Checklists and Certificates)
description: Customize your Checklick checklist and certificate PDFs with your own fonts, colors, and background images. Learn how to brand your documents, design the right image sizes, and create professional-looking certificates.
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# Customizing the PDFs that Checklick Generates (Checklists and Certificates)
Checklick lets you and your evaluators download two types of PDFs: **checklists** and **certificates**. The checklist PDF is a PDF document showing the status of each skill for a specific person and level. The certificate PDF is a document that certifies that a specific person achieved a level (like an achievement certificate or a diploma).
You can change the fonts, colors and background images of both the checklists and certificates. Here's how:
1. Click **Checklists** in the top navigation menu.
2. Find your checklist, and click **Edit** to the right of the checklist you'd like to customize.
3. Click Settings on the black sub-menu and scroll to **Checklist and Certificate PDF Branding**. Check the checkbox entitled **Use custom backgrounds, colors and fonts**. You should now see a collection of settings for your checklist and certificate PDFs for this checklist.
4. For each PDF, you can upload a background image, and you can also select two colors and two fonts (a major and minor font for each). To preview what your PDFs look like, click the **update** button on the top right of the page, then click either **Checklist PDF** or **Certificate PDF** to download and view.
**Designing Your Checklist Background Image**
The checklist PDFs are 11" wide and 8.5" tall (letter landscape), so your image should match these proportions exactly. If your image is a different size, it will be stretched or compressed to fill the page.
Checklist PDF background images don't need a logo, because *your* organization's logo (the organization who owns the checklist) will be automatically placed at the top. The logo of the *awarding organization* (i.e. the organization of the checklist evaluator) will appear automatically on the bottom.
**Designing Your Certificate Background Image**
The certificate PDFs are 11" wide and 8.5" tall (letter landscape), so your image should match these proportions exactly. If your image is a different size, it will be stretched or compressed to fill the page.
Unlike checklist PDFs, certificate PDF background images **will not have your logo automatically applied**. This is to allow your organization more control over the branding of the certificate. For example, your organization may wish to use a larger logo, or a logo that is very short and wide. Your organization may also wish to include the logos of sponsors.
Need some help designing your backgrounds?
- Download a [pre-built background image](https://help.checklick.com/articles/certificate-background-ready-to-use-images?hsLang=en), or use our [Adobe Illustrator template](https://help.checklick.com/hubfs/Checklick%20Credential%20Background%20Template%20-%20Smaller%20(4).ai?hsLang=en) to make your own
- Let us do it for you! Organizations on [a Managed plan](https://www.checklick.com/pricing/) get graphic design services at no charge.
**Quick Tips:**
- Don't forget to click **Update Checklist** after you add an image or make a change to fonts and colors!
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