BRAND CORE & VISUAL IDENTITY GUIDELINES
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Table Of Contents BRAND IDENTITY
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LOGO 8–12 COLORS 13–16 TYPOGRAPHY 17–21 SAMPLES 22–25
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Hey, I’m Clara
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...and this is my personal brand. Why an entire brand guide for a one-person business? Because 1 I just love doing this kind of stuff 2 making sure a brand stays cohesive is hard work no matter how many employees you have So, let’s get started!
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Brand Identity
BRAND IDENTITY
MISSION, VALUES & PERSONALITY.
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Mission & Values MISSION
My mission is to bring more clarity to the world by the means of Graphic Design and Information Design. It is achieved on a large-scale through educational blog posts, and on a smaller scale through applied work with individuals and businesses.
BRAND IDENTITY
VALUES
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Sharing
Teaching and learning from others
Clarity
Translating complex concepts into simple words and illustrations
Alignment
Creating visual assets in alignment with the client’s brand identity
Generosity
Going the extra mile
Quality
Consistently offering the best work and satisfaction to the client
Personality MOODBOARD
The brand is vibrant and dynamic. The clean lines and solid colors exude clarity and boldness, with a rejuvenating edge thanks to the offset recurrent theme.
TONE OF VOICE
The tone of voice is friendly, fun and approachable. It is about inviting a friend over a cup of coffee to discuss super interesting stuff. Emojis are welcome.
BRAND IDENTITY
Copy should always be written with the purpose clarifying or translating complicated concepts into easy-to-grasp English.
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Logo
LOGO
A VISUAL AT THE HEART OF YOUR BRAND IDENTITY.
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Logo Lockups There are two lockups of the logo. The icon by itself should be used most of the time as a logo, except when the name has to be specified.
HORIZONTAL LOCKUP
VERTICAL LOCKUP
LOGO
ICON
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Logo Variations
LOGO
COLOR AND REVERSED
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GREYSCALE AND REVERSED
Clear Space three-dimensional materials. Proper use of clear space ensures visual impact and legibility of the logo. Additional clear space is preferred whenever possible.
LOGO
A minimum amount of clear space must always surround the lockups to separate it from other elements, such as headlines, text and imagery, as well as the outside edge of printed, electronic and
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LOGO
Logo Don’ts
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Colors DARK & VIBRANT, NIGHT & PAPAYA.
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BRAND COLORS 14
Night
Papaya
HEX RGB CMYK
HEX RGB CMYK
#002B54 0.43.84 100.49.0.70
#F68B69 246.139.105 0.56.59.0
White
Brand Colors Night is the primary color used throughout the brand. This color is mostly used on large areas as a dark background theme. In print (CMYK), the text body can be written with 100% black instead to avoid blurriness. Bold headlines should remain in the Night color in digital and print.
Papaya is the brand accent color. Color psychology suggests that orange exhudes energy and dynamism, balancing the more conservative blue. Papaya is used to underline the headlines and hyperlinks.
It can be used as a uniform background, or as a text color to overlay a colored background.
BRAND COLORS
White is the relief color, compensating the two very strong main colors.
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Designing for Accessibility Designing with accessibility in mind ensures that the materials created is usable by all, including those with low vision. You should make color choices that exhibit high color contrast, especially between text and background elements.
LOW COLOR CONTRAST
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BRAND COLORS
HIGH COLOR CONTRAST
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Typography
BRAND COLORS
TEXT, BEAUTIFULLY ARRANGED.
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POPPINS EXTRABOLD
POPPINS EXTRALIGHT // TRACKING 50 PT SANS REGULAR // TRACKING 25
PT SANS ITALIC // TRACKING 25
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PT SANS BOLD // TRACKING 25
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Primary Typeface
EXTRABOLD REGULAR
EXTRABOLD
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EXTRALIGHT
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TYPOGRAPHY
Poppins
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Secondary Typeface
PT Sans BOLD
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REGULAR
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BOLD
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BOLD ITALIC
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REGULAR
TYPOGRAPHY
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REGULAR ITALIC
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Iconography
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Icons should be suggestive of the functionality with which they are associated. The best icon will suggest to the user the primary purpose of the program or operation without having to read accompanying text.
Users recognize functionally suggestive icons more rapidly than other forms because they directly associate with a physical object or action.
The icons used are from the FontAwesome library.
DIGITAL ASSETS
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Samples
DIGITAL ASSETS
THE BRAND IN USE.
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PROFILE IMAGE
BANNER
The brand icon is reproductible at small sizes, either in a square or round frame, making it an ideal choice for social media profile images and
A horizontal lockup logo can also be added to a social media banner.
DIGITAL ASSETS
Social Media
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Stationary Samples BUSINESS CARD (FRONT)
BUSINESS CARD (BACK)
LETTERHEAD
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PRINT ASSETS
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GRAPHIC DESIGNE R clarale.com
Email Signature The email template uses Calibri and Arial Black, which are widely available system fonts and good substitutes for PT Sans and Poppins.
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Icons are directly coded in the signature with a SVG format.
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Clara Le
GRAPHIC DESIGNER C clarale.com ďƒĄ /clarale ď‚• +41 77 498 92 37
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