Xcelerate Brands

Brand guidelines a third party can actually follow

The system every listing, Store and ad is built from: logo, colour, typography and the rules for applying them across marketplaces. In two levels, from the essentials for a brand starting out to the full system with the research behind it.

Brand Guidelines

What’s included in Brand Guidelines

Logo design

The logo and its variants, with the rules for size, spacing and where each version is used.

  • The logo and its variants
  • Clear space and minimum size
  • Where each version is used
Logo design

Colour and typography

The palette and the typefaces, with the values a designer needs and the rules for combining them on a listing, a Store and an ad.

  • The colour palette with its values
  • The typefaces and their uses
  • The rules for combining them
Colour and typography

Research and strategy

In the Professional level, the research that decides the brand's position: the category, the competitors a shopper compares you with, and what the brand should say that they do not.

  • Category and competitor research
  • The brand's position
  • What the brand says, and how
Research and strategy

Brand applications

In the Professional level, the system applied: listing images, the Brand Store, packaging and ads shown in the brand's own style, so the guidelines are seen working.

  • Applied across marketplaces
  • Examples for each channel
  • Extended brand elements
Brand applications

How it works

  1. 1

    Understand the brand and the category

    What the brand is, who buys it, and what the products beside it on the shelf look like.

  2. 2

    Design the system

    The logo, the palette, the type and the photography direction, agreed with you.

  3. 3

    Write the rules

    How each element is used, written so a third party can follow them without asking.

  4. 4

    Hand over

    The guidelines document and the files behind it, ready for anyone who designs for the brand.

Brand Guidelines pricing

$899one time

Essential

The core of a brand system, for a brand starting out.

  • Logo design
  • Colour palette
  • Typography
  • Starter guidelines

$1,349one time

Professional

The full system, with the research behind it.

  • Everything in Essential
  • Research and strategy
  • Advanced logo guidelines
  • Extended brand elements
  • Brand applications

Frequently asked questions

  • Listing Images

    Listing Images

    Amazon listing image design priced per ASIN: a compliant main image, infographics, lifestyle and comparison images, from five images to ten, zoom ready.

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  • Main Image Design

    Main Image Design

    Amazon main image design priced per image: edited and composited to the main image rules, legible at thumbnail size, with variants for testing.

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  • A+ Content

    A+ Content

    Amazon A+ content design priced per ASIN: Standard and Premium A+ modules and the Brand Story carousel, with alt text and written text on every design.

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