Styleguide · v3 · November 2026

Proofed

The product is the picture, with a bit of fun in the logo. We show a real-looking Outlook draft, marked up in red pen like a proof, with handwritten notes saying what Claude did. Everything around it stays quiet and warm: one typeface, soft round corners, warm paper, and the character's sunshine yellow as the only brand colour.

Principles

Show the draft

Every page leads with the thing people get: a finished draft. Explain with the product, not with feature lists.

One typeface

Geist for everything. Weight and size do the work. Caveat only for pen notes on the draft.

Red pen, sparingly

Pen notes are for pointing at the product. Never use them for headings, buttons or decoration.

Highlighter means "filled in"

Yellow marks only text Claude filled or wrote. Don't use it for emphasis.

Short pages

Hero, three steps, four facts, one call to action. If something new needs a section, remove one.

Honest

Early access until it's live. No invented numbers, logos or quotes.

Colour

Ink#16140f · headings, dark button
Ink 2#3d3a32 · body in the draft
Muted#6a6457 · secondary text
Line#ebe6da · borders
Paper#fbf8f1 · page, with warm dots
Sunshine#fff4a3 → #ffc21a · main button, character
Sun ink#8a5a00 · eyebrows, focus, link hover
Pen#d93b3b · pen notes only
Highlighter#fff0a3 · filled-in text, blanks

Tokens live at the top of styles.css. Text is always ink on yellow, never white on yellow. Body text meets WCAG AA.

Type

Display · Geist 600 · 40–68px · −0.04em

Filled in by Claude.

Heading · Geist 600 · 26–34px · −0.03em

How it works

Lede · Geist 400 · 17–19px · muted

A finished draft lands in Outlook.

Body · Geist 400 · 16px / 1.6

Put any email in a folder called “Templates”.

Pen · Caveat 600 · 25px · rotated ±3°

filled in by Claude

Components

Kicker

Early access · Claude connector for Outlook

Filled and blank
Sarah[Client name]
Attachment
PDFBrochure.pdf2.1 MBSaved · not sent
Chat bubble
Use my viewing follow-up for Sarah.
Notes

Draft. For anything not final, such as legal pages.

Placeholder
[[COMPANY_NAME]] appears wherever a value in site.config.json is still empty.

Voice

Do

British English. Short, plain sentences. Say what it does and what it doesn't. Use the customer's words: drafts, templates, attachments.

Don't

Hype ("supercharge", "revolutionary"), exclamation marks, made-up numbers, testimonials or badges.

Never claim

That it's live, that it sends email, that Microsoft or Anthropic endorse it, or that it works with Gmail.

The character

A sunshine-yellow envelope with two black eyes and nothing else: no mouth, arms or legs. The flap blends into the body, marked by a soft white fold. It's the logo, and it turns up at friendly moments: leaning in on the home page, happy on the thanks page, winking on the 404. Use one per screen at most, and don't give it speech bubbles.

idle
hello · home
glance
saved · thanks
wink · 404

Logo

Draftbee

The character's face plus a lowercase Geist Bold wordmark. It bobs a little on hover. Files: logo.svg, favicon.svg, mascot/*.svg, og-image.png.