Comments on “Brand.ai
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
For this to be useful, the font selection needs to be expanded - perhaps allowing the uploading of fonts. Right now this only covers a tiny minority of fonts, making it useless for print projects and any interactive project using anything but google fonts. That's severely limiting. I'm also not sure if I'd spend yet another subscription fee of $10/month on… See more
Ehud Halberstam@ehudhal · Co-Founder & CEO, Brand.ai
@andreasduess thanks for checking it out and for your feedback. We're working on expanding the font selection, and I'll update here when it goes live. I'd love to hear more about your creative process. Would you be willing to share some insights offline?
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@ehudhal of course. I am sorry to be less than enthusiastic about something you guys worked hard on, but I do think the limitations outweigh the utility here, starting with, but not ending with, the fonts. Style guides are more than a logo and a font, as I am certain you are aware, and currently it doesn't look like that complexity is accommodated. I like … See more
Phil Weiner@rigadoohaus · CEO, UrbnEarth
@andreasduess you have a designer that can customize a style guide in just 10 minutes?
Andreas Duess@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@rigadoohaus my apologies for being less than clear. What I meant to say is that we have templates that we have built specifically for Corporate Identity presentations and sharing. These templates, in a variety of formats ranging from google docs to Wordpress pages to (gasp) PowerPoint slides are indeed customizable with very little time investment. Settin… See more
Ehud Halberstam@ehudhal · Co-Founder & CEO, Brand.ai
@andreasduess thanks for sharing this and the feedback. That's helpful.
Jesse Wallace@jesse_wallace · Creative Director, Triton Digital
@andreasduess I absolutely agree about the pricing. There are really robust tools like Frontify that already exist and provide deeper levels of specification, for free. $10/mo isn't a realistic or competitive price. If anything, this should be a flat fee per style guide.