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Ventoy Boot Menu Branding Add Your Logo Shop Name and Contact Line

Your name as the menu title, your logo on the wallpaper, your contact line along the bottom - a complete branding recipe for the Ventoy stick you boot in front of customers, with its real limits stated plainly.

By Technical AnshuVentoy Theme Guide7 minute read
Watch the video for the full branding build on a live Ventoy menu

If you repair PCs for a living, your Ventoy stick is a visiting card: it is often the first screen a customer sees. A boot menu with your shop name as the title, your logo on the wallpaper and your contact line at the bottom looks professional and brings the customer back to you. All of it is done with standard Ventoy theme features - this guide puts them together as a branding recipe, including the one element no setting can remove.

theme.txt - the branding lines
title-text: "Technical Anshu" title-color: "#ffffff" desktop-image: "branding.png" desktop-color: "#0a1120" + hbox { left = 62% top = 95% width = 35% height = 25 + label { text = "Technical Anshu - technicalanshu.com" color = "#ffffff" align = "right" } }
Title text, a wallpaper with your logo baked in, and a label box carrying your name and website along the bottom of the menu
1

Put Your Name in the Title Text

The title-text line in theme.txt is the heading GRUB draws for the menu - make it your shop or channel name, nothing more. Style it with title-color and, if your theme defines one, a title font. Keep it short: a name reads as a brand, while a full sentence reads as an advertisement and pushes the menu down. This title also survives wallpaper changes, so your name stays even when you refresh the background design later.

2

Bake the Logo into the Wallpaper

  1. Design the wallpaper at your menu resolution (1920x1080 matches a gfxmode of 1920x1080) on a dark, calm background - the menu text must stay readable over it
  2. Place your logo in a corner, away from the centre where the menu list sits, and keep the middle of the image quiet
  3. Export as PNG, save it inside your theme folder as the file your desktop-image line names
  4. Test on a real boot: if any menu entry is hard to read, darken the wallpaper behind the list, not the text colour
3

Add a Contact Line with a Label Box

Themes can draw extra text boxes anywhere on the screen. Ventoy's own documentation uses a label box for hotkey tips; the same box carries your contact line. Add an hbox near the bottom of the screen (as in the panel above) with a label holding your name and website or phone number. Position it on the opposite side from Ventoy's version text, which sits at the bottom-left by default, so the two lines never collide. One line is enough - a boot menu is a tool first and a billboard second.

4

Brand the Menu Entries Too

Finish the job with the menu_alias plugin: give customer-facing entries names that carry your label where it makes sense - Technical Anshu - Windows 11 Setup, Technical Anshu - Rescue Toolkit. Keep personal or rarely used ISOs plain. Aliases are display text only, so the real files keep their proper names, and a customer copying a file off the stick takes the real name with it.

Two honest limits. First, the Ventoy version text at the bottom-left corner is hard-coded - settings can move it (ventoy_left, ventoy_top) and recolour it (ventoy_color), but no theme or JSON option removes it; Ventoy's own documentation says removing it means rebuilding Ventoy from source. Second, branding is cosmetic: it changes no boot behaviour, no compatibility and no speed. Sell it as presentation, never as function.

Watch the Full Setup in the Video

The video builds the branded menu from a plain one - follow along with your own logo.

Watch Full Video
Frequently Asked Questions

Can I remove the Ventoy version text from the bottom corner?

Not with any setting. That text is hard-coded in Ventoy. You can move it with ventoy_left and ventoy_top and change its colour with ventoy_color in the theme block of ventoy.json, but removing it completely would mean modifying and rebuilding Ventoy itself, as its own documentation states.

Will branding slow down or change how the stick boots?

No. A theme is only images, fonts and layout text that GRUB reads while drawing the menu. Boot behaviour, ISO compatibility and speed are untouched - branding is presentation, nothing more.

My logo makes the menu hard to read. What is the fix?

Redesign the wallpaper, not the menu. Darken the centre of the image where the list sits, move the logo to a corner, and raise the contrast of item_color and selected_item_color in theme.txt. Then test on the oldest, dimmest monitor you have.

This guide is based on the Ventoy Custom Wallpaper Setup video by Technical Anshu - Add Your Branding - Stuck on a step? Ask in the video comments, help is always there.