diff --git a/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts b/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
index 7260d883c..fb7c42f6f 100644
--- a/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
+++ b/src/context/yaml/handlers/branding.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { YAMLHandler } from '.';
 import YAMLContext from '..';
 import { Asset, ParsedAsset } from '../../../types';
 import log from '../../../logger';
+import { nomalizedYAMLPath } from '../../../utils';
 
 type BrandingTemplate = {
   template: string;
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ async function parse(context: YAMLContext): Promise<ParsedBranding> {
 
   const parsedTemplates: BrandingTemplate[] = templates.map(
     (templateDefinition: BrandingTemplate): BrandingTemplate => {
-      const normalizedPathSplit = path.normalize(templateDefinition.body).split(path.sep);
+      const normalizedPathSplit = nomalizedYAMLPath(templateDefinition.body);
       const markupFile = path.join(context.basePath, ...normalizedPathSplit);
       return {
         template: templateDefinition.template,
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 46e254242..97561159b 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -205,3 +205,29 @@ export function mapClientID2NameSorted(enabledClients: string[], knownClients: A
     ...(enabledClients || []).map((clientId) => convertClientIdToName(clientId, knownClients)),
   ].sort((a, b) => a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase()));
 }
+
+export function nomalizedYAMLPath(filePath: string): string[] {
+  // Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
+  filePath = filePath.trim();
+
+  // Handle empty path cases
+  if (filePath === '') {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  // Normalize the path by replacing backslashes with forward slashes
+  const normalizedPath = filePath.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+
+  // Split the path using the forward slash as the separator
+  let pathSplit = normalizedPath.split('/');
+
+  // Remove empty components resulting from leading or redundant slashes
+  pathSplit = pathSplit.filter(component => component !== '');
+
+  // Remove the first '.' if it's the first component
+  if (pathSplit.length > 0 && pathSplit[0] === '.') {
+    pathSplit.shift();
+  }
+
+  return pathSplit;
+}