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Brand Guidelines
Once you have a logo and colors, you need to use them the same way every time. We give you simple brand guidelines so you, your printer, and anyone you hire keep everything consistent.
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What it is
A simple rulebook so your brand stays consistent.
Brand guidelines are a short, plain document showing how to use your logo, colors, and fonts correctly. It keeps your brand consistent no matter who is making something.
In plain terms
It is the recipe card for your brand. Hand it to any cook, a printer, a sign shop, a new hire, and they make the same dish every time, instead of guessing and getting it a little wrong.
Stay consistent
Everyone uses your brand correctly, every time.
Save time
No guessing on colors or fonts for the next project.
Protect your look
Vendors cannot accidentally mangle your brand.
How brands drift — one reasonable guess at a time
Nobody sets out to mangle a brand. The print shop cannot find your exact blue, so they pick something close. The nephew making a Facebook post grabs a bolder font 'that pops.' The sign vendor stretches the logo a touch to fill the board. Each guess is small and defensible; three years of them later, no two things with your name on them match, and the business reads as scattered — without anyone ever making a bad decision.
Guidelines end the guessing by removing the need for it. Exact color codes, correct logo files attached, the fonts named, the few do-not rules stated. When the answer is written down, vendors stop improvising — most are relieved to; guessing wrong costs them reprints too.
Right-sized for a small business
Corporate brand books run to 80 pages because they govern departments across continents. You do not need that, and we do not sell it. A trade business needs a tight document — usually a handful of pages — covering the things that actually get produced: logo usage and spacing, the color codes for web and print, the fonts, and examples of right versus wrong. Short enough that people actually read it, complete enough that they never need to ask.
Where it pays daily: onboarding any new vendor in one email, keeping a crew member's social posts on-brand without micromanaging, and ordering reprints that match the originals years later. If you ever bring on marketing help, the guidelines are the difference between them extending your brand and reinventing it.
Sound familiar?
Signs this is for you
If any of these ring true, this is exactly what fixes it.
Different vendors keep using the wrong colors or a stretched logo.
You have to re-explain your brand every time you order something.
Your materials slowly drift and stop matching each other.
How it works
Simple, start to finish
Gather
We pull together your logo, colors, and fonts in one place.
Set rules
We write simple do's and don'ts anyone can follow.
Hand off
You get one file to send any vendor or new hire.
See the difference
Before and after
A printer guesses your blue and stretches your logo. It comes back looking off, but you already paid.
You send your guidelines, and the order comes back matching perfectly the first time.
What you get
What is included
Clear logo usage do's and don'ts
Your exact color codes for web and print
Your fonts and how to use them
Spacing and sizing basics
A simple file you can hand to any vendor
Why it matters
Why this is worth doing
Without a guide, your brand drifts: the wrong blue on a flyer, a stretched logo on a sign. Guidelines keep everything sharp and consistent, which is what makes a brand feel established.
What it costs
Pricing, plainly
Guidelines are a small fixed-price add-on when we design your logo or identity — the content already exists; we document it properly. As a standalone project for an existing brand (we reverse-engineer your codes, fonts, and files into one clean document), it is quoted flat after a quick look at what you have.
FAQ
Brand Guidelines: common questions
If more than one person or vendor ever touches your materials, yes. Guidelines keep your logo, colors, and fonts consistent so your brand stays sharp instead of drifting over time.
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