Agent skill

Brand Style Guide

by rampstackco in rampstackco/claude-skills

Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts.

MITAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Brand Style Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-style-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rampstackco/claude-skills brand-style-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/brand-style-guide .claude/skills/brand-style-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
brand-style-guide
GitHub stars
940
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,013 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
103
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts.

  • Works in 8 steps: Story → Logo system → Color → …
  • The user wants to create brand guidelines
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, When NOT to use, Required inputs and The framework: 8 sections, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Brand Style Guide is an agent skill from rampstackco/claude-skills. Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create brand guidelines, document an existing brand, build a brand book, audit an existing style guide for completeness, or produce the artifact that other teams will reference for years. Triggers on style guide, brand guidelines, brand book, brand standards, brand manual, style sheet, brand…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `references/maintenance-playbook.md` and `references/style-guide-template.md`).

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Brand strategy and identity, Logo and visual identity and Design systems. The repository describes itself as: Stack-agnostic Claude Skills covering the full website lifecycle: brand, design, content, SEO, dev, ops, growth, and research. Build, ship, audit, optimize. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to create brand guidelines
  • Document an existing brand
  • Build a brand book
  • Audit an existing style guide for completeness

Example prompts

  • “/brand-style-guide”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Story
  2. Logo system
  3. Color
  4. Typography
  5. Imagery and illustration
  6. Voice and tone
  7. Applications
  8. Dos and don'ts

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 482c9bf. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Brand Style Guide loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 178 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,013 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~178
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from rampstackco/claude-skills at commit 482c9bf, republished under its MIT licence (© rampstackco). 1,013 words, ~2,111 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/brand-style-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
brand-style-guide
description
Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create brand guidelines, document an existing brand, build a brand book, audit an existing style guide for completeness, or produce the artifact that other teams will reference for years. Triggers on style guide, brand guidelines, brand book, brand standards, brand manual, style sheet, brand documentation, brand reference. Also triggers when the brand identity is finished and needs to be documented for handoff to designers, developers, vendors, or future team members.
category
brand
catalog_summary
The canonical reference document for the full brand system
display_order
3

Brand Style Guide

Document the brand system so other people can use it without ambiguity. This is the artifact that lives longest. Designers, developers, agencies, and vendors will reference it for years. Build it like a reference manual, not a presentation.

This skill assumes the brand identity is designed (run brand-identity first if not). The output of this skill is the canonical reference document.


When to use

  • Creating brand guidelines for a finished identity
  • Documenting an existing brand that has no formal guide
  • Auditing an existing style guide for gaps or inconsistencies
  • Building a brand book to hand to vendors, partners, or new team members
  • Updating a guide after a major brand evolution

When NOT to use

  • The brand identity is not yet designed (use brand-identity)
  • Brand voice work specifically (use brand-voice for the voice doc, then integrate)
  • Building UI components (use design-standards or design-system)

Required inputs

  • Finished brand identity (logo, colors, typography, imagery direction, motion principles)
  • Brand voice and tone documentation (or sufficient inputs to write a voice section)
  • Application examples that show the brand in real contexts
  • Decisions on what is mandatory vs flexible vs forbidden

The framework: 8 sections

A complete style guide has eight sections. Most guides skip 2 or 3 of them and create downstream confusion. Build all 8 from the start.

1. Story

The narrative behind the brand. Why it exists, what it stands for, what it rejects.

  • Origin / founding story
  • Mission and vision
  • Values (3 to 5, with what each means in practice)
  • Positioning statement
  • Audience (with the level of specificity from the brief)
  • What we are not (the things we explicitly reject)
2. Logo system

Every variant of every mark, with rules.

  • Primary logo (with construction grid showing relationships)
  • Wordmark
  • Symbol / glyph
  • Lockup variations (horizontal, stacked, etc.)
  • Monogram (if part of system)
  • Clear space rules (minimum spacing around logo)
  • Minimum sizes (smallest acceptable size for print and digital)
  • Acceptable color treatments (full color, single color, knock-out, reverse)
  • Forbidden treatments (stretching, rotating, recoloring, drop shadows, gradients - whatever is forbidden)
  • File formats and where to find them
3. Color

The full color system with rules.

  • Primary palette (signature colors)
  • Secondary palette
  • Neutrals scale
  • Semantic colors (success, warning, error, info)
  • Light mode and dark mode variants
  • Per color: hex, RGB, HSL, CMYK, Pantone (if print-relevant)
  • Contrast ratios documented
  • Allowed pairings
  • Forbidden pairings
  • Usage hierarchy (primary first, secondary supporting, neutrals dominant)
4. Typography

The full type system.

  • Display typeface (with sample sizes)
  • Body typeface (with sample sizes)
  • Monospace (if applicable)
  • Type scale (specific sizes used)
  • Weight and style usage (which weights for which contexts)
  • Line height ratios
  • Letter spacing standards
  • Web fallback stacks
  • Open-source alternatives for licensing-restricted contexts
  • Forbidden treatments (all caps overuse, fake italics, etc.)
5. Imagery and illustration

What pictures look like in this brand.

  • Photography direction with example library
  • Illustration style with example library
  • Iconography system with the full icon set (or rules for adding to it)
  • Forbidden imagery (stock photo cliches, specific things never to show)
  • Photo treatment rules (color treatment, crops, composition)
6. Voice and tone

How the brand sounds. (Pulled from brand-voice work if done separately.)

  • Voice attributes (3 to 5 adjectives with "we are X, not Y" framing)
  • Tone shifts by context (onboarding, error, marketing, support, legal)
  • Vocabulary preferences (words we use, words we avoid)
  • Grammar and style rules
  • Examples (good and bad copy side by side)
7. Applications

The brand applied to real contexts.

  • Web (homepage, product pages, blog template)
  • Email (template, signature, transactional)
  • Social (post templates, profile imagery, story formats)
  • Print (business cards, letterhead, print ads)
  • Packaging (if applicable)
  • Signage (if applicable)
  • Internal documents (slides, reports, proposals)
  • Each with examples showing what good looks like
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8. Dos and don'ts

The boundaries, illustrated.

  • Logo dos and don'ts (visual examples of correct and incorrect use)
  • Color dos and don'ts (combinations to use, combinations to avoid)
  • Type dos and don'ts (treatments to use, treatments to avoid)
  • Composition dos and don'ts (layout patterns that work, ones that do not)
  • Voice dos and don'ts (phrases that fit, phrases that do not)

The dos and don'ts section is what people actually reference in practice. Make it the easiest section to scan.


Workflow

  1. Inventory the inputs. What identity work is finished? What voice work is finished? What is missing?
  2. Confirm the format. Is this a PDF, a web page, a Notion doc, a printed book, or all of the above? Different formats have different production requirements.
  3. Section by section, draft. Use the template in references/style-guide-template.md.
  4. Stress-test with real examples. For every rule, find a real application example. Rules without examples get ignored.
  5. Get review from the people who will use it. Designers, developers, marketers. They will surface gaps.
  6. Version control. Style guides evolve. Date the doc. Note what changed in each version.
  7. Publish in the format the team will actually open. A 200-page PDF that lives on a shared drive is dead weight. A web page or Figma file with a clear URL gets used.

Failure patterns

  • Skipping the "what we are not" sections. Without rejection rules, anything becomes acceptable.
  • Document with no examples. Rules without visual examples are abstract and ignored.
  • Document with only examples. Examples without rules cannot be applied to new situations.
  • Static PDF that no one opens. Ship the guide in the format the team uses daily (web page, Figma, Notion, etc.).
  • No version history. When the brand evolves, no one knows which rules changed or when.
  • Aspirational rules. Rules the brand does not actually follow get treated as suggestions. Document what is actually true, not what is wished.
  • Treating "dos and don'ts" as filler. This section is what people use most. Invest in it.

Output format

Default output is a multi-section markdown document or a structured set of files, plus a presentation-ready version (web page, PDF, or Figma) for sharing with stakeholders.

Recommended structure:

brand/
  style-guide.md          (the canonical document)
  story.md                (or as a section)
  logo/
    construction.md
    files/                (SVG, PNG, etc.)
  colors.md
  typography.md
  imagery/
    photography.md
    illustration.md
    icons/
      icons.md
      files/
  voice.md
  applications/
    web.md
    email.md
    social.md
    print.md
  dos-and-donts.md

For consumer-facing presentation, build a web page version that imports from these source files. The source files are canonical. The presentation is a view of them.


Reference files

© rampstackco, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/brand-style-guide of rampstackco/claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • references/maintenance-playbook.md
  • references/style-guide-template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 482c9bf

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Questions about Brand Style Guide

What does Brand Style Guide do?

Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts. Brand Style Guide is an agent skill from rampstackco/claude-skills. Build or audit a comprehensive brand style guide that documents the full brand system including story, logo system, color, typography, imagery, voice, applications, and dos/don'ts.

When should I use Brand Style Guide?

Brand Style Guide fits situations like: the user wants to create brand guidelines; document an existing brand; build a brand book; audit an existing style guide for completeness.

How do I install Brand Style Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-style-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/brand-style-guide in rampstackco/claude-skills) into .claude/skills/brand-style-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Brand Style Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-style-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/brand-style-guide in rampstackco/claude-skills) into .agents/skills/brand-style-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Brand Style Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-style-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/brand-style-guide, .gemini/skills/brand-style-guide, .github/skills/brand-style-guide and .opencode/skills/brand-style-guide in your project.

What does Brand Style Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Brand Style Guide is instructions for the agent only.

Does Brand Style Guide access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Brand Style Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Brand Style Guide use?

Brand Style Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Brand Style Guide use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Brand Style Guide?

rampstackco (a GitHub organization) maintains it in rampstackco/claude-skills, which has 940 GitHub stars. The repository holds 103 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: rampstackco/claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.