Alpha Brand Guidelines

Oct 2018

1. Introduction 2. Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values 3. What is Alpha? 4. Our Target Audiences 5. Creative Values 6. Tone of Voice 7. The History of the Alpha Logo 8. The Alpha Logo 9. Colour and Fonts 10. Best Practice 11. Definitions 12. FAQs

Introduction

Welcome to the Alpha Brand Guidelines.

1. Introduction 2. Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values 3. What is Alpha? 4. Our Target Audiences 5. Creative Values

These guidelines are designed to help you use Alpha brand assets, including the Alpha logo, fonts and colours, creatively and effectively.

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Alpha is a global brand, with over 50 offices and courses in over 100 countries around the world and we communicate daily to thousands of people about Alpha; inviting people to try Alpha, inviting supporters to donate to Alpha or church teams to run Alpha. When we apply the Alpha brand consistently, and with a passion for

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creative excellence, we are giving our churches our best, and acting as

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guardians of the Alpha brand. Together, we are effectively raising the global awareness of Alpha in every village, town and city and country around the world.

If you have any questions about the brand guidelines, please contact

comms@alpha.org.

Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values

Alphaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is the evangelisation of the nations, the revitalisation of the church and the transformation of society.

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to explore a personal relationship with Jesus, wherever they are in the world, for free.

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Our mission is to equip and serve the church in its mission to help people to discover and develop a 5

relationship with Jesus.

Our Brand Values

We are for the church, by the church and through the church.

We are passionate about unity.

We believe the church deserves our best.

We believe in giving it all away.

Our goal is the revitalisation of the church. We don’t invite guests into a relationship with Alpha; our hope is to introduce people to a relationship with Jesus and to connect them into their local church

community.

Alpha is unique in providing a common tool for evangelisation that is being used by all Christian traditions and denominations and is building relational unity at a grass roots level around the world.

We want to equip the church with excellent tools that they are excited and confident to share with unchurched guests. We’re focused on innovation to continually improve and respond to the evolving needs of the church around the world.

We don’t want to monetise Alpha: it’s free to guests and churches. Alpha is God’s mission and the glory goes to him, not us.

What is Alpha?

We describe Alpha by answering three key questions:

What is it? Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith. Each talk looks at a different question around faith and is

designed to create conversation.

Where is it? Alpha is run all around the globe, and everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s welcome.

How does it work? No two Alphas look the same, but generally they have three key things in common: food, a talk and good conversation.

Our Target Audiences

1. Introduction 2. Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values 3. What is Alpha? 4. Our Target Audiences 5. Creative Values 6. Tone of Voice 7. The History of the Alpha Logo

In the context of our marketing and communication, Alpha has five key target audiences, with a primary focus on the church leader:

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We have multiple target audiences, all of which are unique and important, but in order to serve our vision effectively our primary focus is the church leader. When creating or communicating about Alpha materials, we need to be aware of each of their specific needs and cater accordingly. In order to make sure we are serving and equipping our global audiences effectively, we encourage you, the National Alpha

Office, to refine these further to reflect your specific region.

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Church Leader and Team Leader

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Church Leader

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As we explained earlier, one of our core brand values is that we

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are for the church, by the church, through the church. The church leader â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the person responsible for the local church or diocese

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(eg pastor, vicar, priest or bishop) involved with Alpha â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is therefore a key relationship for Alpha.

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The church leader is the person who encourages the team and

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congregation to get behind Alpha, communicates the values of

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Alpha, mobilises the church to invite people to try Alpha as well

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Leadership Conference or a local Alpha Conference to learn

as to pray for Alpha. The church leader is likely to attend more about Alpha.

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Team Leader

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The team leader is someone who is either considering or already

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running Alpha. The team leader interacts with Alpha through a National Alpha Office, through the Alpha website or through local

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Alpha events. Providing effective training and materials on how to run Alpha excellently is key in supporting and encouraging them

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as they run their course.

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1. Introduction 2. Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values 3. What is Alpha? 4. Our Target Audiences 5. Creative Values

One way of communicating Alpha to church and team leaders is:

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Alpha is a tool for empowering the local church in its mission to

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share the good news of Jesus and to raise leaders. It does this by focusing on the initial message of the gospel; leading people to a personal encounter with God in the power of the Holy Spirit,

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fostering an invitational culture and enabling ‘ordinary’ church

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members to play their part in the church’s mission in engaging a younger generation through hospitality, food, interesting talks and

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a safe space for discussion. It models a leadership pipeline, which keeps the church’s focus on forming disciples and releasing them

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as leaders in the life of the church.

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Congregation and Guest

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Congregation

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The congregation are those who are encouraged to spread the word

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and invite people to try Alpha and/or are part of the team running it. The congregation interacts with Alpha through their church leader

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on a Sunday, through church communication and at team training events. Providing training specifically on authentic organic invitation

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and tools to prompt conversation with the people they want to invite

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is essential in order for guests to come to Alpha.

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One way of communicating Alpha to this audience is: Alpha is a tool to help you introduce your friends and family to the

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Christian faith. It takes place over a series of sessions, with each session including food, a short talk and a discussion where they can share their thoughts. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no pressure, no follow up and no charge.

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Guest

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The guest is someone who is potentially thinking of or is doing

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Alpha for the first time. The guest interacts with Alpha through both national and church-led advertising campaigns. These help

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increase brand awareness and consequently trust in the brand. They also might interact with Alpha through an invitation from

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a friend, or when visiting a local church or church website. The

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majority of guests decide to try Alpha as a result of having been personally invited by a friend.

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One way of communicating Alpha to this audience is:

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Alpha is an opportunity to explore life and the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal environment. Each session includes food, a short talk and a discussion where you can share your thoughts. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no pressure, no follow up and no charge.

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Donor

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Donor

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The donor is someone who is inspired by the vision and gives to

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the work of Alpha. They are sometimes a former Alpha guest or host/helper too. The donor mainly interacts with Alpha through

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their National or Global Alpha Office or through an invitation to a donor event.

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One way of communicating Alpha to this audience is:

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Alpha is changing lives by inviting people to find out more about

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the Christian faith through engaging a younger generation with hospitality, food, interesting talks and a safe space for discussion.

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It focuses on the initial message of the gospel – leading people to a personal relationship with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit. It also enables church members to play their part in inviting people to try Alpha and models a ‘leadership pipeline’, which keeps the church’s focus on forming disciples and releases them as leaders in the life of the church.

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Creative Values

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One of our values is we believe the church deserves the best, which is why we aim for creative excellence across all our marketing and communication.

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To help shape creative excellence across our marketing and communication, we follow five creative values and five tone of voice values.

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Integrity

Truthful Consistent Environmentally-friendly

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Simple

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Clean Functional Uncluttered

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Emotive

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Expressive Positive Aspirational

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Beauty Bold 19

Modern Aesthetically pleasing Kalos (inner beauty)

Iconic Innovative Eye-catching

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Tone of Voice

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Friendly

Welcoming Fun Kind Helpful

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Community-driven

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Inspiring

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Positive Thought-provoking Encouraging Uplifting

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Adventurous

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Innovative Aspirational Bold Exciting

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Authentic

Honest Trustworthy Genuine Sincere

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Plain-speaking Uncomplicated Easy to understand Easy to translate

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The History of the Alpha Logo

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1993

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2008

2012

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Artist and Alpha speaker Charlie Mackesy

The Alpha logo stays the same, but the

The Alpha logo is redesigned and

designed the first Alpha logo, drawing

font and colour get an update.

becomes a question mark. It is now

a man carrying a question mark. This

more inclusive and easily adaptive to

perfectly illustrated Alpha as a place to

the digital space. The iconic red question

bring your questions.

mark continues to represent Alpha as a place to bring your questions.

*Responsible use of the Alpha logo helps to positively impact awareness of Alpha

around the world.

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The Alpha Logo

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Primary Logo

Our logotype should primarily appear in Red. Care should be taken when using the logotype to ensure there is sufficient contrast between the artwork and background.

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Primary logo

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Minimum size of logo

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Minimum space around logo

9mm

Alpha

Alpha Alpha

6pt min

9mm

Alpha

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Secondary Logos

The secondary Alpha logo is the same logo but in white, black and grey. To preserve brand recognition, do not use secondary logos on guest-facing marketing and communication (eg advertising,

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invites, banners, posters): use secondary logos for church leader or donor-facing communication.

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Exceptions: Alpha products created by Alpha Global may have

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exceptions for strategic purposes, eg the Alpha Youth Series

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product branding. Exceptions are not permitted elsewhere.

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White

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Black

Grey

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Logo Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ts 1

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The Alpha logo is one single colour, not

The Alpha logo does not join with other

The Alpha logo is not the Alpha logo

multi-colour or patterned.

words to create a sub-logo for the

if it does not follow guidelines on size

National Alpha Office or context.

and angle.

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London

The smallest size logo is no smaller than

No other words are permitted in or around

the word Alpha at 6pt.

the dot. Exceptions only by permission of Alpha, eg where the word Alpha has to be

translated to a different language.

Do not remove the word Alpha from the dot.

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Colours and Fonts

1. Introduction 2. Our Brand Vision, Mission and Values

Primary Colours

3. What is Alpha? 4. Our Target Audiences

Tints of Red Tints of Black White

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C 0 M 95 Y10 0 K0 R 2 28 G 3 5 B18 H E X #e 4 2312

C 6 0 M 4 0 Y4 0 K10 0 R0 G0 B0 HEX #000000

C 0 M 0 Y0 K0 R 25 5 G25 5 B 25 5 HEX #ffffff

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Secondary Colours

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Ochre Tan Sea Navy

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C11 M 39 Y95 K 2 R 2 2 4 G16 0 B127 H E X #e 0 a 01b

C17 M 6 8 Y10 0 K6 R 2 0 0 G 98 B1 H E X #c 8 62 01

C 93 M 6 0 Y18 K4 R 9 G 93 B14 8 H E X # 0 95 d 94

C 95 M 8 0 Y3 4 K 27 R 39 G 5 5 B 94 H E X # 27375 e

Moss Green Sand Brown

C71 M 9 Y4 3 K0 R6 4 G170 B16 0 HEX #40aaa0

C 8 2 M 32 Y8 2 K 2 2 R4 4 G170 B16 0 H E X # 2c 6 e 4 4

C16 M 41 Y52 K4 R 212 G15 8 B12 2 H E X #d 4 9e7a

C 27 M 5 9 Y 75 K 21 R16 5 G10 3 B 6 4 H E X #a 5 674 0

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Primary Font

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ITC Avant Garde

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Medium Medium Oblique Bold Bold Oblique

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Secondary Fonts

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Helvetica

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Exception 1 In countries where the specific fonts are unavailable,

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please use the closest font possible and seek permission from your regional Alpha office.

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Regular Oblique Bold Bold Oblique

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Secondary Fonts

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Baskerville 10 Pro

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Exception 2 Alpha may use additional fonts for advertising

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campaigns (eg the Alpha Invitation), events (eg The

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Regular Italic Bold Bold Italic

Leadership Conference) and products (eg The Alpha Youth Series). Please only use additional fonts with permission from the Alpha Global Team.

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Best Practice

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Best Practice for Print

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Sign-up

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Poster

Try Alpha

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Alpha runs here.

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Postcard

explore life faith meaning

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What is Alpha?

Who’s it for?

How does it work?

How much is it?

Alpha is a series of interactive sessions that explore the basics of the Christian faith.

Alpha is for anyone who’s curious to explore the big questions of life, faith and meaning. The talks are designed to encourage conversation and explore the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal environment.

Typically run over eleven weeks, no two Alphas look the same, but generally they have three key things in common: food, a short talk and a discussion where you can share your thoughts. There’s no pressure and no follow up.

There’s no charge for Alpha, though some places may ask for a contribution towards food.

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You’re invited to Try Alpha

Sign me up If you would like to take part, please complete this form and send it to the address overleaf.

FIRST NAME

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SURNAME

ADDRESS POSTCODE

DAYTIME TEL

AGE (OPTIONAL)

Your text here Your text here Your text here

EMAIL HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ALPHA? DIETARY REQUIREMENTS

We look forward to seeing you

Alpha runs here. Alpha.org

Alpha.org

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Roller banner

Your text here Your text here Alpha.org

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Best Practice for Digital

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Facebook banner

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Mobile image

Instagram post

explore

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life faith meaning

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Things to Avoid

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Example 1

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Prison Alpha

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Example 2 Incorrect sub-brand title. See p39 for correct practice.

You are invited

Incorrect font. See p31 for correct practice.

Incorrect colour. See p29 for correct practice.

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Logos are too small and too

10. Best Practice Incorrect logo orientation.

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See p25 for correct practice.

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close together. See p25 for correct practice.

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Sub Brands

As a global organisation, Alpha oversees the ministries below: Using the Alpha logo, colour and font as inspiration, we use visual cues from the Alpha branding to identify these ministries as being part of Alpha.

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You may notice that, in some cases, the Alpha branding has been

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adapted for these sub-brands. This is for sub-branding purposes only and may not be replicated in any other situation.

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The Marriage Preparation Course

The Parenting Children Course

The Marriage Course

The Parenting Teenagers Course

Leadership Conference

This is the LC19 logo; it might

change for future LCs.

Bible in One Year

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Alpha as Words

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When describing Alpha as a sub brand in words, the different contexts are called:

We may introduce videos or products as coming from Alpha as follows:

We describe a partnership with Alpha as follows •

In partnership with Alpha

•

In association with Alpha

•

In partnership with Alpha International

•

In association with Alpha International

•

Supported by Alpha

•

Supported by Alpha International

Not: eg Alpha Catholics

•

Alpha Prisons

•

Supported by Alpha

•

Supported by Alpha International

Alpha Not: eg Alphacourse

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•

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•

Alpha Catholic Context

Not: eg PrisonAlpha, Alpha–Prisons

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Alpha Students Not: eg StudentAlpha, Student Alpha or Alpha – Students

•

Alpha Workplace Not: eg Workplace Alpha, Business Alpha

•

Alpha Youth Not: eg Youth Alpha, Alpha–Youth

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Definitions

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Alpha Contexts

There is one Alpha. Alpha can be run in any environment. There are five different contexts in which additional resources are available for churches: Prisons, Workplace, Youth, Students and the Catholic Church. The different Alpha contexts are called:

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Alpha Alpha Catholic Context Alpha Prisons Alpha Students Alpha Workplace Alpha Youth

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There is one Alpha logo for all Alpha contexts. See products for exceptions. If you would like to run Alpha in any of these contexts, please

ask for support from your regional Alpha office.

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Alpha Products

The Alpha Global Team oversees the production of Alpha Products (DVDs, books and guides) including:

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Alpha with Nicky Gumbel Alpha Film Series Alpha Youth Series The Marriage Preparation Course The Marriage Course The Parenting Children Course The Parenting Teenagers Course

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You may notice, in some cases, the Alpha branding has been adapted for these products. This is for publishing purposes only

and may not be replicated in any other situation.

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FAQs

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FAQs

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What colour logo can we use on a red background?

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We noticed the Alpha logo is used slightly differently for the Alpha Youth Series, can we also use this example for our purposes (eg an event or advertising)?

We do not have the same fonts in our country. What font should we use?

We create a lot of branding for Alpha-related events, what other colours can we use?

Alpha products are designed in-house

Adventor that you can use instead. If you

by Alpha Global for use around the world

use a different language to English, we ask

and adaption of the Alpha branding is

that you choose a font in that language

for publishing purposes, to make a clear

thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close as possible in look and feel

distinction between products.

to ITC Avant Garde.

For brand integrity, if it is an Alpha-related

Kindly refrain from adapting the Alpha

We recommend white. If white is not possible for print, consider using print

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techniques such as embossing or foil to print a red logo on a red background.

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event, these guidelines are set out within the boundaries of the Alpha colour palette. There are no other colours allowed for Alpha-related events.

branding beyond these guidelines for your regional/national events and resources.

The majority of countries around the world have access to ITC Avant Garde. If your country does not have access to this font, there is a free font called Tex Gyre

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FAQs

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We create events that are run by our Alpha Office but the content varies from leadership to marriage to team training. What branding should we use?

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The use of the Alpha logo should be as per

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these guidelines. All branding from Alpha for events and communications should

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follow our creative values. Designers can also use the secondary colours and fonts to guide design decisions.

Should we translate a product logo to a local language? Feel free to translate the text to your local language, using the same layout, fonts and colours as in the original English/ Alpha Global product branding.

We would like to design our own Alpha Invitation. Can we create whatever we want? The Alpha Global Team creates the range of promotional and training resources to be used as is, or as inspiration for your adaption and localisation. Feel free to use them as templates for your own content, but keeping in mind the brand creative values and guidelines laid out in this document.