Brand kits
Give each project its own look and voice: colours that pass a contrast check, fonts you can install in a click, a logo, image style and rules. Link a kit to a project and everything Ava makes for it follows the kit.
A brand kit is the brand behind your work: the colours, fonts, logo, image style, rules and written voice that make a project look and sound like itself. Each kit belongs to its projects, and everything Ava makes there comes out on it, in every room, including inside GIMP and Blender.
Finding your kits
In the Creative Studio, Brand Kit sits at the bottom of the left rail, with two dots in the current kit’s colours. Your kits show as cards with their logo, palette and the projects they are linked to.
Making a kit
Click "+ Add brand" and choose which project it is for. Then pick one of two ways:
- Make it with Ava. She reads the project, works out what it is, researches it, checks which fonts you have, and puts a whole kit in front of you with her reasoning. It waits for you: question it, change anything, then click "Agree this kit". Only you can agree it, and a kit waiting for you is used nowhere until you do.
- Start blank, and fill it in yourself.
What a kit holds
First, what the kit is for: a game, an app, a website or a business. Each kind has its own list of pieces, so a game kit asks for a title logo, splash screen, HUD colours and UI frames, while a website kit asks for a logo, favicon, web fonts and social images. Every kit also has:
- Colours: five roles (primary, secondary, accent, neutral, surface).
- Colours together: which colour goes on which, each with a contrast check. 4.5 to 1 or better reads well; 3 to 4.5 is for large text only; under 3 is too low.
- Fonts: heading, body and UI.
- Image style, and visual dos and don’ts.
- Written voice, with do and don’t rules, which also shapes the words in your posts.
Each piece shows whether it is not made, in progress or agreed, and the sheet’s "What this kit needs" list shows what is left.
Setting a piece
Click any piece. You can set it yourself (type it, pick the colours, choose the fonts), choose a picture from your Library, upload one, or click "Make it with Ava". Visual pieces such as a title logo or an app icon open the GIMP room on a clean stage, and Ava starts by asking for your vision. When the piece is finished she asks before saving it to the kit. Only finished files go into a kit, and the kit keeps its own copy, so it survives even if the original work is deleted.
Fonts
The font lists show what is already on your computer first, then Google Fonts by popularity, each with an Install button. Installing brings down every weight, for your user only. If a kit names a font you do not have, it says so, with Install beside it when the font is on Google Fonts. Ava always asks before installing a font.
Linking kits to projects
- One kit can serve several projects; each project uses one kit.
- With a project open, the kit’s sheet offers "Link to" or "Unlink from" that project.
- Inside a linked project, Ava uses that project’s kit and no other. A project with no kit gets none: she will ask whether to link one or make one, rather than borrow another brand.
- With no project open, Ava uses the kit you have marked active.
Deleting a kit
Delete removes the kit and its saved files. It always asks first. The work you made with it stays where it is, and a deleted kit stops shaping anything new.