Brand guides: global inspiration for designers

Discover BrandGuidelines.net, a resource with brand guidelines from around the world to inspire and enhance your design projects

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In design, a brand guideline is not just a manual: it's the map that ensures that every piece of communication speaks with the same voice. From the choice of typefaces to the color palette or the tone of the language, a good guide keeps the coherence and identity of a brand alive in any medium.

Now, there is a resource that condenses inspiration and learning in one place: BrandGuidelines.net. This site compiles outstanding brand guidelines from around the world, accessible to any creative looking to reference, study structures or discover how great brands tell their visual story.

In this article we explore why you should bookmark this resource, the importance of creating your own brand guide and how it can become a catalyst for ideas for your next projects.

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A brand guide is the visual and verbal style manual that defines how a brand is presented to the world. Without it, it is easy for different communication pieces to lose coherence and weaken brand recognition. A good manual includes:

- Visual identity: logo, colors, typographies, iconography.
- Language and tone: how it is written and communicated.
- Rules of use: proportions, margins, correct and incorrect uses of the logo.
- Practical applications: examples in stationery, web, social networks, advertising.

2. BrandGuidelines.net: a living archive of inspiration.

At BrandGuidelines.net you will find a catalog of real brand guidelines, from multinationals to smaller, creative projects. Each example allows you to analyze how they are structured, what elements they prioritize and what visual resources they use to convey identity. It is a window into the strategic and aesthetic decisions of brands from different sectors and cultures.

3. How to use it in your creative process.

- Inspiration for new projects: See how global brands combine colors, typography and visual narratives.
- Structural learning: Analyzes how chapters are organized, information hierarchy and clarity of standards.
- Benchmarking: Compare your work with international standards to raise the quality of your proposals.

To create a solid branding guide is to give your project a consistent visual and verbal DNA. Resources such as BrandGuidelines.net are not only an inexhaustible source of ideas, but a tool to better understand how great brands build their identity.

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