A brandbook is an official company document that describes the brand concept, brand attributes, target audience, company positioning and other data that guides the marketing department and business managers in building communication with consumers and developing the company as a whole.
In addition, the brandbook contains a complete guide to corporate identity, which includes a detailed description of the use of each brand element on various media, both advertising and corporate.
Vision, mission, values, philosophy and brand sentiment. This section can include the mission, vision and anything that conveys the mood of the company.
This part of the brandbook is called the guideline, and it's often what designers use to keep all the rules in mind when layout online and offline elements.
Describing portraits of key customers, describing and solving their problems with the product.
This can be corporate products, documents and all those layouts that are used in the company. Everything that is designed within the company is added to this section.
This details the origin and meaning of the company name, as well as additional grammatical features.
This section includes the logo and all its variants. The nuances of how it will look on different backgrounds and in different situations are taken into account. It also includes different versions of the logo.
Here is an example of the fonts used by the brand, their sizes and lettering. It is important to specify which fonts are used and in which situations. There are examples of texts with a headline, subheadings and a quote.
This section shows the primary and secondary colors, with examples of their use. The proportions of color use are indicated. Next to each color sample, the name of the color and its meaning in different color systems are written.
It specifies which illustrations can be used in the company, prescribes the rules for each category and the principles of selecting photos.
Rules for their use, stylistics, examples for infographics and other ways to visualize data.
All elements that are used in the company's web resources are formalized. Buttons, menus, header and footer of blog posts should also match the style of your company.
These are photo blanks of mobile devices or souvenir products that can use your design. Mockups for presentations, illustrations in social networks and on the website will always be shown on the screen of the same device.
Creating clear visual style guidelines helps make your brand more recognizable. They are a key tool to ensure consistency in brand communication.
Brands can evolve and change over time without them, but some changes can damage a company's reputation.