Brand Guidelines
What are brand guidelines and what are
they used for??
 Brand Guidelines are essentially a set of rules that explain how
your brand works. These guidelines typically include basic information such as
an overview of your brand's history, vision, personality and key values.
 Most brand guidelines are produced for the company’s employees and
representatives to ensure the company is presented in a coherent way.
Main features
 Typeface
 Logo
 Colour
 Brand Identity
Typeface
 It’s a particular design of type
 A typeface is a design for a set of printer or display fonts, each for a set of
characters, in a number of specific sizes.
Logo
 A Logo is a symbol or other small design adopted by an organization to
identify its products, uniform, vehicles, etc.
 A logo refers to an image that relates to a company.
Colour
 Colour is essential for brand design as, like a logo, it represents and displays
particular companies, or in terms of music, different artists/bands.
 For example, Ed Sheeran’s artwork and such often includes the use of the
colour orange, most likely to resemble his hair colour but yet is now
something he has adopted.
 Or even Lady Gaga who is often associated with bright colours and alternate
colours as she somewhat has an ‘indie’ or very ‘post-modern’ style through
her outrageous clothing styles and such like.
Brand Indentity
 A brand identity is how that business wants to be perceived by consumers.
 Effective visual brand identity is achieved by the consistent use of particular
visual elements to create distinction, such as specific fonts, colours, and
graphic elements.
 At the core of every brand identity is a brand mark, or logo.

Brand guidelines

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    What are brandguidelines and what are they used for??  Brand Guidelines are essentially a set of rules that explain how your brand works. These guidelines typically include basic information such as an overview of your brand's history, vision, personality and key values.  Most brand guidelines are produced for the company’s employees and representatives to ensure the company is presented in a coherent way.
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    Main features  Typeface Logo  Colour  Brand Identity
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    Typeface  It’s aparticular design of type  A typeface is a design for a set of printer or display fonts, each for a set of characters, in a number of specific sizes.
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    Logo  A Logois a symbol or other small design adopted by an organization to identify its products, uniform, vehicles, etc.  A logo refers to an image that relates to a company.
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    Colour  Colour isessential for brand design as, like a logo, it represents and displays particular companies, or in terms of music, different artists/bands.  For example, Ed Sheeran’s artwork and such often includes the use of the colour orange, most likely to resemble his hair colour but yet is now something he has adopted.  Or even Lady Gaga who is often associated with bright colours and alternate colours as she somewhat has an ‘indie’ or very ‘post-modern’ style through her outrageous clothing styles and such like.
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    Brand Indentity  Abrand identity is how that business wants to be perceived by consumers.  Effective visual brand identity is achieved by the consistent use of particular visual elements to create distinction, such as specific fonts, colours, and graphic elements.  At the core of every brand identity is a brand mark, or logo.