The Best Brand Guidelines Generator for Designers (2026)

A professional brand identity designer’s perspective on why Akrivi Guideit is the only tool built for real brand guidelines creation.

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I am a brand identity designer, just like you. And for years, I hated the final step of every project, which is creating the brand guidelines.

It felt like administrative work, not design work.

I assumed I wasn't alone, so I interviewed over 500 other designers. The consensus was obvious, our pain points are aligned. Despite all the tools and generators online, creating brand guidelines was still slow, tedious, and frustrating.

Existing apps didn't actually solve the problem. And templates were just as bad.

So, I decided to build the solution I actually wanted to use. Here is why I believe Guideit is the best brand guidelines generator for professional designers in 2026.

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The Problem with Web Apps

There are plenty of web-based brand guideline tools out there. You’ve probably seen them.

The problem with them is that they force you to leave your workflow. You have to export your assets from Illustrator, open a browser, log in, and upload everything one by one.

Some are great for hosting a finished guideline, but they are terrible for creating one, and they disconnect you from your design environment.

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The Problem with Templates

The other option is buying a template. Designers spend anywhere from $50 to $400 on one professional InDesign or Illustrator templates.

But a template isn't a generator. It’s just a file with placeholders.

You still have to spend 8 to 40 hours manually copy-pasting hex codes, dragging in logos, and typing out font names. If the client changes their mind about a color, you have to go back and update it on 30+ different pages.

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Why Guideit is Different

I built Guideit to fix this. It is the only brand guidelines generator that lives exactly where you work, inside Adobe Illustrator.

It combines the speed of automation with the precision of a design tool.

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Here is why it works:

1. You Stay in Your Flow: You don't need to export or upload anything to web. You work directly on your artboard.
2. Actual Generation: You input your assets once, logos, colors, fonts, and the plugin populates the entire document instantly.
3. Professional Standards: The templates aren't just nice layouts. They are built on proper grid systems and typographic scales that professional studios use.
4. Instant Update: You can re-upload changes to logo or colors, and the tool update all with one click.

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Try It for Yourself

I can talk about it all day, but the only way to really understand the difference is to see it in action.

Stop spending days on manual entry. Try Guideit on your next project and see how it feels to finish a brand book in minutes, not days.

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Conclusion

Tools should adapt to the designer, not the other way around. By keeping the process inside Illustrator and automating the boring stuff, Guideit lets you focus on what you actually got paid to do: design.