Our Style
Our tone of voice
Professional but still approachable. Not big corporate faceless brand but someone they can talk to and be understood. Personable as talking to a person rather than a call centre. Clear not too techy, avoiding tech-babble. A bit of dry humour to show personality but definitely not “wacky quirky fun”.
Brand Vocabulary
My Title: Website Manager
Call to Actions
Talk to us
Product Names
Build & Manage
Build, Manage & Grow
Proprietary Way
Fully Managed Websites
Colloquialisms
Aiming at slighter older people.
Contractions
Prefer not. We are better than we’re.
Punctuation
Not too many explanation marks.
Try to use properly; commas, full stops etc. As more professional.
I like ampersands (&).
Emojis
Not really; perhaps a smiley face.
Words / Phrases I use
Shine online
Words / Phrases I avoid
Try to avoid acronyms and technical phrases (e.g. SEO unless define)
Don’t like swear words or crude words or slang.
Not too personal (dear etc.)
Our visual style
Main colours
#888b95 silver
#00491f green
#ed8c00 - yellow (secondary colour)
Open Sans nice font
Quicksand heading font
Here is the brand guidelines as produced by a graphic designer in December 2021 :