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Brand Identity

Brand system that stops the drift

A brand system designed to sit consistently across every tool the business uses — website, deck, documents, email and product — without drifting.

Brand colour references and guidelines laid out as one documented system
The brief

A brand that changed depending on who made the file

The business had a logo and a rough sense of its colours, but nothing binding. Every proposal, deck and email signature was assembled by a different person, and the brand drifted a little further each time.

At the point where several tools and several people all touch the brand, 'close enough' stops being good enough — clients notice inconsistency even when they can't name it.

At a glance

Sector
Professional services
Project type
Brand system & guidelines
Scope
Colour, typography, templates, documentation
Focus
Consistency across every tool
Delivered
2024
What we did

Designing for every place the brand lands

A brand isn't what's on the logo sheet. It's what the client sees in their inbox, in the proposal and on the site — so we designed for all of it.

Tools mapped first

We started by listing everywhere the brand actually appears — website, documents, decks, email, product — and designed for the real contexts rather than idealised ones.

A system, not a rulebook

Colour, type and spacing were defined as reusable values, so applying the brand correctly is easier than improvising something close to it.

Templates people will use

Practical templates for the documents the team produces most often, so consistency doesn't depend on anyone reading a guidelines document.

Documented for handover

Guidance written for the people actually making things — suppliers, new starters and freelancers — rather than for a design archive.

The outcome

One brand, wherever it appears

The business now looks like itself whether a document came from the website team, a supplier or someone who joined last month.

  • Consistent colour and typography across every tool
  • Templates that make the right choice the easy one
  • Guidance written for the people producing the work
  • A system that absorbs new tools without redesigning
Brand templates and stationery arranged as one consistent system

Need something similar?

If your brand looks different every time it leaves the building, a documented system is what stops the drift.

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