Bell Style guide

2016 New Version.

BELL HELMETS Corporate Brand Guidelines.

BELL Brand Guidelines.

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BRAND MANIFESTO

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BRANDMARK CLEAR SPACE

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BRAND STATEMENT

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BRANDMARK SCALE VARIATIONS

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BRAND CHARACTERISTICS

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COLOR PALETTE

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BRANDMARK ON LIGHT

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BRAND TYPOGRAPHY

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BRANDMARK ON DARK

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BRANDED PATTERN

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BRANDMARK ON BLACK & WHITE

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IMAGERY PRINCIPLES

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BRANDMARK CONSTRUCTION

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BRAND MANIFESTO. It is the statement that communicates who you are in the workplace.

Borrowed from the marketing world, it reflects your professional reputation.

What’s important to our customers is what’s important to us. Places to ride and compete, substance over

fashion, performance over pose. We seek to celebrate utility, keeping it authentic and sharing the resulting energy. In this way we not only serve the core, but

democratically spread the love and expand the sports and activities we ourselves are so passionate about.

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BRAND CHARACTERISTICS. There are many characteristics of branding. The key for businesses is creating brands that consumers and existing customers want.

WE DON’T JUST MAKE HELMETS; WE MAKE POSSIBILITIES. BORN IN A GARAGE. FUELED BY GREASE AND WILL. GUIDED BY PURE INTENT TO ENCOURAGE THE WORLD TO LIVE, RIDE, DRIVE AND THRIVE.

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LOGOTYPE OR BRAND MARK. The BELL logotype or brand mark is to be considered an uneditable vector art file. The BELL logotype is available with or without a tag line (BELLHELMETS).

Never attempt to retype the name BELL and/or the tag line (BELLHELMETS) and use it as a logotype. The relationship between logotype and the tagline may not be altered and must also be considered vector art.

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BRANDMARK MARGINS. No type, photos or graphic elements should come closer to the logo the clear space for the brandmark is defined by the height of the letter L from the BELL brandmark. The x-height of the BELL logo is based on the x-height of the BELL typeface. The x-height changes with the scale of the logo. Dotted line below indicates safe area around logo.

x-height

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BRANDMARK ON BLACK & WHITE. When monochrome is used, then all elements are to be 100% black.

When white out is used, all elements are inverted to white.

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BRANDMARK SIZE & PROPORTION. The BELL logo should always be kept within the

box height on screen for web. The BELL logo

original proportion. Never attempt to retype, scale

with tag line should not be used smaller than 11â „4

or skew in a single direction to fit. Always con-

inches or 32 mm wide in printed material or 20

strain proportions to ensure heigth and width are

pixel box height on screen for web, so that the

scaled together. The BELL logo without tag line

tag line will remain legible. In addition, jpeg com-

should never be used smaller than 11/8 inches

pression should never be less than 50%. Logos

or 29 mm wide in any printed material or 16 pixel

should never be upscaled in Photoshop.

20 px box height

logo with tag line for use in print

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logo without tag line for use in print

logo with tag line for use in web

16 px box height

logo without tag line for use in web

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BRANDMARK CONSTRUCTION.

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LOGOTYPE INCORRECT USAGE. The following are examples of incorrect usage of the BELL logo. Do not combine

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BELLHELMETS

BELLHELMETS

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the logo with type to make a new logo.

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COLOR PALETTE. This is our brand color palette. Our swatches are defined in RGB, HEX, CMYK, and Pantone swatches.

BELL GOLD

GT SILVER

#AFACB0

GRAPHITE BLUE

#759FAF

ONYX BLACK

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R 237

C

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R 176

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R 117

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M

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G 175

M

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G 173

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G 159

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G

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Y

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B 141

Y

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B 176

Y

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B 176

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B

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2438 C

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#ECAF8C

3526 C

#000000

K 100

2454 U

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BRANDMARK ON LIGHT. As the primary brand mark, the wordmark lockup is the hero lockup that should be used wherever possible.

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BRANDMARK ON DARK. As the primary brand mark, the wordmark lockup is the hero lockup that should be used wherever possible.

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BRAND TYPOGRAPHY. Typography is the vessel that carries

messaging with unwavering confidence.

our voice. It visually sets the tone before

The secondary typeface is the Helvetica

it is even heard. The primary typeface

Neue family, a classic sans serif font

is the DIN 1451 Engschrift, a clean sans

that is meant to be used in stationery and

serif font for communicating brand

large amounts of text.

DIN 1451 Engschrift

Aa

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Helvetica Neue Regular

Aa

A B CDEF G H IJ KL MNO PQRST UVW X YZ ab c d e f g h i j k l m n op q rstuvwxyz 0123456789

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BRANDED PATTERN. The custom light gray wordmark pattern can be used as another strong brand device within our system. It is particularly powerful because, when the symbol tessellates, it allows to create a seamless unpredictable pattern that immediately recalls to our products.

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LOGOTYPE USAGE OPTIONS. These are examples of various background images illustrating which BELL logo is appropriate in each situation. It is important to be able to read the logo and the tagline clearly off of the background. Take care to choose an approved version of BELL logo, that allows maximum visibility.

Acceptable usage

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Unacceptable usage

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APPLICATIONS.

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APPAREL.

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