5 Best Brand Guidelines Generators for Designers (2026)

Looking to create brand guidelines faster? Here are brand guidelines generators you can use.

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If you’re a brand identity designer, you already know that compiling the final brand guidelines is often the biggest bottleneck in a project. It’s essential work — but instead of feeling like design, it often feels like repetitive formatting and administrative cleanup at the very end.

Naturally, many designers search for a brand guidelines generator to speed things up. Over the years, a number of tools have emerged claiming to automate this process, each with a slightly different approach.

In this article, I’ll break down some of the most popular brand guidelines generators designers are using in 2026, and then explain why I ultimately built a completely different solution for my own workflow.

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1. Akrivi Guideit - Brand Guidelines Generator

Brand guidelines generators have existed for years, but they still don’t work well for professional designers.

After personally interviewing and surverying nearly 500 designers, the issue was clear: creating brand guidelines is essential, yet slow and inefficient, with most designers spending 8–40 hours manually using expensive static templates.

Instead of your traditional brand guidelines template, Guideit is an Adobe Illustrator plugin that uses Automated Templates™ to generate fully editable brand guidelines directly inside Illustrator.

With Guideit, templates are reusable, so designers avoid repeatedly buying static files while creating brand guidelines in minutes and not days. Finished documents can be exported and shared via Google Drive, giving clients an easy way to view guidelines online.

👉 You can try it for free, along with all the other Akrivi brand identity design automation tools.

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Brand Guidelines are the same as Brand Books. Designers sometimes have different names for them.

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The Popular Web-Based Options

Most "generators" currently on the market are actually web-based platforms. They are designed primarily for hosting and sharing guidelines, rather than creating them from scratch.

Here are a few you might have heard of:

2. Frontify

Frontify is the heavyweight in this space. It’s an enterprise-level platform used by massive companies to house their brand assets.

• Pros: It’s incredibly robust and great for large teams who need a central hub.
• Cons: For a freelance designer or small studio, it can be overkill. It’s expensive and focuses more on asset management than the initial creation of the visual identity document.

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3. Corebook

Corebook focuses on "living" brand guidelines. It allows you to create online, interactive brand books that are easy to update.

• Pros: It offers a modern, digital-first presentation that looks great on the web.
• Cons: You still have to export your assets from Illustrator and upload them manually. It’s a presentation tool, not a creation tool.

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4. uBrand

uBrand is an AI-assisted branding platform. It helps generate basic logos and brand kits for small businesses.

• Pros: It’s very fast and accessible for non-designers or business owners starting from zero.
• Cons: It lacks the professional precision and customization that a brand identity designer needs. It’s not built for custom, vector-based work.

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5. Gingersauce

Gingersauce positions itself as a professional tool to create brand books. It uses wizards to help you upload logos and pick fonts.

• Pros: It attempts to automate the layout process more than others.
• Cons: You are limited to their web interface and templates, which restricts your creative control compared to design software.

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Why These Tools Fall Short for Designers

While these tools have their place, they all share the same friction point for professional designers: they force you to leave your workflow.

To use them, you have to export your logos, colors, and typography from Adobe Illustrator, open a web browser, and re-upload everything. You aren't "generating" the work; you are just moving it to a new location.

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Conclusion

If you need to host a massive digital system for a Fortune 500 company, a web platform like Frontify is great.

But if you are a designer who wants to create a professional brand guideline document for your client in seconds, you need a tool that works where you work.

Guideit is designed to keep you in your creative flow.

Either way, all generators have resources of some great brand guidelines examples for you to follow.

You can start generating brand guidelines for free right inside illustrator.

Guideit is apart of Akrivi Studio, where you can automate your entire logo and brand identity design workflow.