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Professional Brand Style Guide Services by The Creative Collective

A well-crafted style guide is essential for any business or organisation looking to maintain a consistent and professional image across all platforms.

At The Creative Collective, we specialise in creating style guides that define your brand’s visual and verbal identity, ensuring consistency in how your brand is presented to the world.

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What is a Brand Style Guide?

Brand Guidelines, also known as Brand Identity Guides, Brand Standards Manual, Brand Books, Brand Manual, Visual Identity Guide, Brand Consistency Guides, Corporate Identity Guidelines and Visual Style Guides are a crucial document that outlines the rules and standards for how your brand should be represented. It includes detailed guidelines on your brand’s logo usage, colour palette, typography, imagery, tone of voice, and more.

Whether you’re a small business developing a brand for the first time or a large corporation looking to update your existing guidelines, Brand Guidelines ensure that your brand remains cohesive and recognisable across all marketing materials.

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Why You Need One…

A style guide is not just a document—it’s a vital tool for maintaining the integrity of your brand. Here’s why having a well-defined brand identity is important:

Flexibility: Allow your brand to evolve over time while maintaining a consistent identity across all channels.

Consistency: Ensure that every piece of content, from your website to your business cards, adheres to the same visual and messaging standards.

Professionalism: Present a polished and unified brand image that builds trust and credibility with your audience.

Efficiency: Streamline the design and content creation process by providing clear guidelines to your team and external partners.

 

Our Style Guide Services

At The Creative Collective, we offer both package and tailored (custom) brand style guide services to meet the unique needs of your business or organisation.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to refine an existing brand, our team of experienced designers and brand strategists will work closely with you to develop a guide that perfectly reflects your brand’s identity.

See our brand style guide packages below, or contact us if you require a custom brand style guide.

All of our brand style guides cover colour schemes and typography/fonts, and our more solid brand style guides include detailed guidelines for multiple departments, sub-brands, and global markets, ensuring consistency across a diverse range of materials.

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Why Choose Us?

Expertise: With years of experience in brand strategy and branding, we have the knowledge and creativity to create brand style guides that will work for your team, and stand the test of time.

Packages or Custom: We understand that you may have stock standard requirements, or unique requirements, and we are happy to be flexible and offer customised brand style guide services that meet the specific needs of your business.

Collaborative Approach: We work closely with you to understand your brand and add value by giving our professional advice on everything from colour and font selection to tone of voie and more, ensuring that the final brand style guide accurately reflects your identity.

FAQ’s

It is a document that outlines the visual and stylistic elements of your brand, ensuring consistency across all communications. It includes guidelines for logos, colours, typography, imagery, and tone of voice. We offer starter brand style guides which are less pages and cover only the basics and very comprehensive, multi-page documents which cover every aspect of a company brand.

This document ensures consistency and cohesiveness in your brand’s visual identity, which is crucial for brand recognition and building trust with your audience. It helps maintain professionalism and clarity in all marketing materials.

A guide typically includes rules for logo usage, color palettes with specific codes (RGB, CMYK, HEX), typography guidelines (fonts, sizes, spacing), imagery guidelines (photography style, illustrations), and tone of voice recommendations.

A guide ensures that everyone involved in creating content for your brand, whether in-house or external, adheres to the same visual and messaging standards. This consistency strengthens your brand’s identity and makes it more recognisable to your audience.

Yes, even small businesses benefit greatly from having one of these marketing assets. It helps maintain a professional image and consistency across all marketing materials, which is essential for growth and building brand loyalty. For instance if you go to a sign writer to get a sign made for your business, you want to make sure the colour of your signage matches the colour on your digital assets such as website, social media channels and so on.

Yes, The Creative Collective offers both brand style packages and customised services tailored to your brand’s unique identity and marketing objectives. We work closely with you to understand your brand’s values and create guidelines that reflect your vision.

The timeline for creating one can vary depending on the complexity of your brand and the specific requirements. Our team at The Creative Collective will provide you with a timeframe based on your project scope during the initial consultation.

The process typically involves initial consultations to understand your brand, research into your industry and target audience, creation of draft guidelines for your review, revisions based on your feedback, and final delivery of a comprehensive brand style guide.

Yes, your brand style guide should evolve with your business. The Creative Collective can assist you in updating your brand style guide as your brand grows or as trends in your industry change.

To get started, simply contact us through our website or call our team. We’ll schedule an initial consultation to discuss your brand’s needs and objectives, and propose a tailored solution to develop a guide that enhances your brand’s identity and consistency.

Let’s chat about your project

Choose your Brand Style Guides package

Starter Brand Style Guide

From $1,200 + GST

Briefing – can be conducted in person where geography permits or online

Preparation of a 1-3 page brand style guide which includes guidelines for:

Finalised logo

Logo variations

Minimum size

Fonts used

Colour palette with break downs (PMS*, CMYK, RGB & HEX)

Supplied in PDF format

Also includes reviewing work / quality assurance / proofreading + project management

Solid Brand Style Guide

From $3,200 + GST

Briefing – can be conducted in person where geography permits or online

Preparation of up to a 12-page brand style guide which includes guidelines for:

Finalised logo

Logo variations

Minimum size

Fonts used

Colour palette with break downs (PMS*, CMYK, RGB & HEX)

Minimum clear space

Incorrect use

Supporting graphic elements

Example applications: stationery, signage, clothing

Supplied in PDF format

Also includes reviewing work / quality assurance / proofreading + project management

Serious Brand Style Guide

From $5,000 + GST

Briefing – can be conducted in person where geography permits or online

Preparation of up to a 20-page brand style guide which includes guidelines for:

Finalised logo

Logo variations

Minimum size

Fonts used

Colour palette with break downs (PMS*, CMYK, RGB & HEX)

Minimum clear space

Incorrect use

Supporting graphic elements

Social media icons

Example applications: Stationery, signage, clothing

Brand photography style

Brand key messaging statements

Supplied in PDF format

Also includes reviewing work / quality assurance / proofreading + project management

NOTES: - Should additional rounds of concepts and amendments be required, this is subject to additional charges. - This does not include artwork for applications. - Separate quotations will be provided for all marketing collateral. - Does not include development of any logo/brand or other design work. - If specific fonts are required for the project, any applicable licensing fees will be passed on at the time of purchase to ensure compliance. - Brand style guide is designed in Adobe InDesign and provided as a PDF suitable for online or print use. - *PMS colour selections are available at an additional cost.

Brand Style Guides Case Studies

Care Activities

Care Activities is a small, not-for-profit provider of Before and After School Care in four locations across Lake Macquarie. They were established in 2017 after separating from their sister entity, Community Services Lake Macquarie. Care Activities have doubled in size since January 2021 and are committed to providing high quality, accountable and professional support, and childcare services. Care Activities hope to become the OOSH provider of choice for both schools and parents. The Creative Collective…

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