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Brand Guidelines
2017
Brand Summary
Mission
- To provide smart products for today’s pets, emphasizing freedom, safety, and peace of mind for dogs and their owners.
Core Values
- freedom
- safety
- peace of mind
- credibility
Target Audience
- Dog owners seeking reliable, innovative pet containment and training solutions.
Personality Traits
- friendly
- trustworthy
- innovative
- professional
Visual Identity Overview
- The visual identity centers on a clean, modern look with bold, rounded sans-serif typography, a green dog silhouette logo, and a color palette dominated by greens, greys, and accent oranges. Consistent logo usage, clear spacing, and avoidance of loud colors or embellishments are emphasized.
Categories
Brand Voice
Brand Messaging Our Voice
- Tag lines should be written in sentence case. Applies to all taglines.
- Main Message Brand Message It’s all about your dog.®
- Supportive Message Brand Message Smart products for today’s pets.™
- √ It’s all about your dog.® X It’s All About Your Dog.® X IT’S ALL ABOUT YOUR DOG.®
Brand Messaging Our Voice
- Each tagline should be used in relation to its given product category.
Hidden Fence Simply the best. No getting around it. ™
Hidden Fence Happiness is being surrounded by freedom and safety.™
SmartFence The next generation of pet fencing.
- ProFence Freedom, safety, peace of mind.
SmartFence The only connected Hidden Fence.
- Stay connected with your pet.
- Know before your dog does.™
Indoor Boundaries Not every place is a pet place.
Indoor Boundaries Come. Sit. Stay off the chair.
Training Products Bring out the best in your dog.™
- BigLeash Unleash your life.™
- BarkCollar Play more. Bark less.
SideWalker Walking shouldn’t be a drag.™
Training Products A range of solutions for every dog.
BigLeash Enjoy the freedom.
- Good behavior is close at hand.™
- Dogs will be dogs.
BarkCollar Be a good neighbor.
- Restore the peace and quiet.
SideWalker Walk together side by side. Release the tension.
- Tag lines should be written in sentence case. * Applies to all taglines.
Brand Imagery
- Space around the logo. Always leave some space for the logo to breathe. Use white or neutral background.
- Solid. Use negative logo over a color or photo. When possible, place the DogWatch logo on a white, black or green background.
- Clarity. Do not sit the logo on images that are too bright or cluttered. Choose the photo that works for the logo, do not adjust the logo to work for an image.
- Not Right. Do not rotate the logo.
- No Dress Up. Do not embellish the logo with drop shadows, embossing, etc.
- Red Alert! Do not sit the logo on LOUD colors. *Avoid: Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Purple.
Color Palette
- The Primary & Secondary color palette is for use on all print collateral as well as on the website and other digital pieces.
- The Tertiary color palette is for use as accent only and in moderation.
- Brand Green Web: #55910C RGB: 85 152 12 CMYK: 72 18 100 4 • Logo • Text • Buttons • Primary backgrounds • Graphics
- Light Green Web: #85B52E RGB: 133 181 46 CMYK: 54 9 100 0 • Buttons • Backgrounds • Graphics
- Dark Green Web: #235608 RGB: 35 86 8 CMYK: 80 40 100 39 • Button Hover • Graphics - shading
- Grey Web: #4D4B4E RGB: 77 75 78 CMYK: 66 60 55 37 • Text • Headlines on tan bkgs • Graphics on tan bkgs
- Tan Web: #ECEBEO RGB: 236 235 224 CMYK: 8 4 11 0 • Backgrounds Only
- Orange Web: #FF7800 RGB: 255 120 0 CMYK: 0 66 100 0 • Links • Call to action text/ background
- Alert Orange Web: #FF4A12 RGB: 255 74 18 CMYK: 0 85 100 0 • Link Hover • Graphics - emphasis
- The core brand color is a medium green. The green color, although prominent should be used in moderation to not dilute the impact of the main brand color. Lighter & Darker variations available when contrast is required.
- Background (Grey and Tan tones) can be used for all brand graphics.
- Accent colors (Red & Orange tones) are available to highlight promotions or important notices. Used primarily on digital media.
- Do not sit the logo on LOUD colors. *Avoid: Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Purple.
- When possible, place the DogWatch logo on a white, black or green background.
Typography
- Proxima Nova is our basic typeface appropriate for all copy and used on all print and digital media.
- Lexia is our lifestyle typeface used for both primary & secondary headlines on both print and digital media.
- Use this Hierarchy of fonts to tell your story. Highlight your main message in the primary headline and support it using secondary and tertiary headline fonts.
- Dealer websites use a variation of these type faces. Please contact us with any questions.
- Primary Headline Details: Proxima Nova Extra Bold Tracking: 10 Sentence Case
- Secondary Headline (1) Details: 50% size of Primary Headline Lexia Light Tracking: 0 Sentence Case
- Tertiary Headline Details: 30% size of Primary Headline Proxima Nova Regular Tracking: 0 Sentence Case
- Use For: • Cover pages / Hero Images • Brand Messaging • Page Titles • Text over main photos
- Use For: • Interior page titles • Section headlines (only if not used as page title already) • Text on white or solid backgrounds
- Use For: • Section headlines • Headlines for body copy
- Don’t Use For: • Section Headlines • Lifestyle messaging
- Don’t Use For: • Cover Page • Text over photos
- Don’t Use For: • Cover Page • Page titles • Text over photos • Brand or lifestyle headlines
- Lifestyle Headline Details: 80% size of Primary Headline Lexia XBold Tracking: 0 Sentence Case
- Secondary Headline (2) Details: 30% size of Primary Headline Proxima Nova Bold Tracking: 180 Uppercase
- Body Copy Details: Proxima Nova Regular Tracking: 0 Sentence Case
- Use For: • Lifestyle messaging • Text over lifestyle photo • Print page titles • Text over main photos
- Use For: • Product names • Subhead under Primary headline • Text over photo okay if legible
- Use For: • Body Text
- Don’t Use For: • Section Headlines / subheads • Brand messaging
- Don’t Use For: • Full sentences or phrases • Text over photos on busy backgrounds • Section headlines • Headlines for body copy
- Don’t Use For: • Headlines of any kind • Text over photos
Logo Usage
- These logo lockups are to be used in all printed publications, advertising, billboards, posters, fliers, product packaging and other printed collateral.
- All logos are available in Black & Green or the Negative version (White).
- All logos are available in the following file formats: • Vector File (.ai & .psd) • Jpeg • PDF • PNG • EPS
- For all print material, the dealership logo should apply the following guidelines.
- Both logos are available in negative version (White).
- Space around the logo. Always leave some space for the logo to breathe. Use white or neutral background.
- Solid. Use negative logo over a color or photo. When possible, place the DogWatch logo on a white, black or green background.
- Clarity. Do not sit the logo on images that are too bright or cluttered. Choose the photo that works for the logo, do not adjust the logo to work for an image.
- Not Right. Do not rotate the logo.
- No Dress Up. Do not embellish the logo with drop shadows, embossing, etc.
- Red Alert! Do not sit the logo on LOUD colors. *Avoid: Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Purple.
Tone And Messaging
- Tag lines should be written in sentence case. Applies to all taglines.
- It’s all about your dog.®
- Smart products for today’s pets.™
- √ It’s all about your dog.®
- X It’s All About Your Dog.®
- X IT’S ALL ABOUT YOUR DOG.®
- Each tagline should be used in relation to its given product category.
- Simply the best. No getting around it. ™
- Happiness is being surrounded by freedom and safety.™
- The next generation of pet fencing.
- Freedom, safety, peace of mind.
- The only connected Hidden Fence.
- Stay connected with your pet.
- Know before your dog does.™
- Not every place is a pet place.
- Come. Sit. Stay off the chair.
- Bring out the best in your dog.™
- Unleash your life.™
- Play more. Bark less.
- Walking shouldn’t be a drag.™
- A range of solutions for every dog.
- Enjoy the freedom.
- Good behavior is close at hand.™
- Dogs will be dogs.
- Be a good neighbor.
- Restore the peace and quiet.
- Walk together side by side. Release the tension.
- The Registered “mark” should be used after the following Trademarks of DogWatch inc.
- DogWatch® BigLeash® FastReact® SafeLink® It’s all about your dog.®
- Tag lines should be written in sentence case. * Applies to all taglines.
Visual Style
- These logo lockups are to be used in all printed publications, advertising, billboards, posters, fliers, product packaging and other printed collateral.
- All logos are available in Black & Green or the Negative version (White).
- All logos are available in the following file formats: • Vector File (.ai & .psd) • Jpeg • PDF • PNG • EPS
- Space around the logo. Always leave some space for the logo to breathe. Use white or neutral background.
- Solid. Use negative logo over a color or photo. When possible, place the DogWatch logo on a white, black or green background.
- Clarity. Do not sit the logo on images that are too bright or cluttered. Choose the photo that works for the logo, do not adjust the logo to work for an image.
- Not Right. Do not rotate the logo.
- No Dress Up. Do not embellish the logo with drop shadows, embossing, etc.
- Red Alert! Do not sit the logo on LOUD colors. *Avoid: Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue & Purple.
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