Vol. 1 — 2026
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Manual.

Brand guides, written like documents. Build one in an afternoon, share it with a link.

Manual turns logos, colours and type into a calm, readable guide your team and partners can actually use. No slide decks, no 80-page PDFs.

1.0

Product

1.1*

Build

Assemble a guide from sections — introduction, logo, colour, type, mockups, resources. Reorder by dragging.

1.2*

Import

Start from what exists. Pull colours, fonts and logos out of an old PDF, a Figma file or a website.

1.3*

Publish

One click gives the guide a public URL. Readers get a clean document, a PDF download and a design.md.

2.0

Process

  1. 2.1Create an accountEmail and password. No card.
  2. 2.2Add or import sectionsLogo, colour, type, mockups, resources.
  3. 2.3Tune the detailsContrast checks, tints and shades, font pairings.
  4. 2.4Publish and shareapp.usemanual.site/g/your-brand
3.0

Specimen — what a page looks like

3.1 Colour
Ink#111111
Paper#F7F6F3
Signal#2340FF
Stone#D9D6CF
3.2 Type

Aa

Family
Switzer
Weights
Regular, Medium
Tracking
−0.03em

Your brand, on one page.