Brand Guidelines

Hone your eye for great brand writing with these top notch brand voice, expression and verbal identity examples.

Brand Guidelines
Buzzfeed Style Guide

Buzzfeed's style guide for everything from breaking news to "which type of sandwich are you" quizzes.

Brand Guidelines
Shopify

Shopify has a very thoughtful breakdown of their verbal identity and content that spans everything from language to grammar to tone to naming.

Brand Guidelines
Audi

The luxury automaker showcases their brand elements in a simple site experience. There voice and tone section is definitely worth checking out.

Brand Guidelines
Starbucks

A slick site with all their brand guidelines captures in one place. There's some interesting content under the Theory category that talks more about the brand itself.

Brand Guidelines
RISD

See how the Rhode Island School of Design thinks about their brand expression and how they break down their tone of voice.

Brand Guidelines
Space10

A sparse but beautifully made brand site that showcases the thoughtful design work behind the brand.

Brand Guidelines
Canondale Brand Guidelines

Unique brand guidelines that put creativity at the heart of their visual and verbal language.

Brand Guidelines
Discord

The site itself is very minimal but there's a link to download the full brand book which has a lot more information about the brand, including a snapshot of their strategy, tone of voice and full brand system.