Kwaku Amprako is a logo and brand identity designer, educator, and founder of Akrivi — pioneering BIDA (Brand Identity Design Automation) to empower designers to create with more speed, precision, and less stress.
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Brand Guidelines Generator: The Fastest Way to Create Brand Books in Illustrator
How brand designers create brand books in seconds with Guideit in Adobe Illustrator.
We all know the feeling. You just got the final approval on a logo. The client is happy. But they also want the brand guidelines like yesterday.
You can’t celebrate yet. Now you have to open a blank document and spend the next three days copy-pasting hex codes, dragging in logos, and typing out typography rules.
It is the most boring part of the job. It kills your momentum.
That is why I built Guideit. I wanted to turn that three-day slog into a three-minute task, without leaving Adobe Illustrator.
Why Speed is Profit
If you charge a flat fee for a branding project, every hour you spend on this admin-like task is money lost.
Building a brand book manually isn't designing. It's a data entry. You aren't solving a visual problem; you are simply organizing pages.
By automating this part of the process, you aren't being lazy. You are being smart. You get to deliver the same quality work to your client, but you get to keep your time for the actual creative work that pays the bills.
From 3 Days to 3 Minutes
Guideit works differently than the web apps you might have seen. It lives inside Illustrator, so it feels like a natural part of your workspace.
Here is how fast the process actually is:
1. Input Your Assets
Open the panel. Upload your logo files (wordmarks, icons). Select your project fonts from the dropdown. Pick your colors. You do this once.
2. Pick a Vibe
Go to the templates tab. Do you want something Swiss and grid-heavy? Or something minimal and fashion-forward? Just click the thumbnail.
3. Generate
Hit the blue button.
That’s it. In a few seconds, the tool creates every artboard. It types out the color values. It places the logos. It sets up the typography hierarchy.
You go from a blank screen to a 40-page PDF early morning.
Why Illustrator is Better
There are plenty of websites that can generate a brand page for you. But they force you to export all your files, upload them to a browser, and deal with a clunky web editor.
Guideit keeps you in Illustrator.
This is huge because the result is a real vector file.
If you want to tweak the layout, move a text box, or adjust a color swatch later, you can. You have full control over the final output because it’s just Illustrator artboards. You aren't locked into a rigid web template.
Stop doing it the hard way
You became a designer to create, not to type out RGB codes.
Stop billing for manual labor and start billing for value. You can generate your first professional brand book right now with the free trial.
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Conclusion
Efficiency isn't about cutting corners. It's about using the right tools to remove the friction from your work. With Guideit, the most tedious part of branding becomes the fastest.
