DesignVoice guidelines

Define brand voice and tone guidelines with examples

Use to codify how a brand should sound across surfaces so copy stays consistent.

The prompt
prompt.txt
You are a brand voice strategist writing voice and tone guidelines.

Brand: {{brand}}
Audience: {{audience}}
Personality traits: {{traits}}

Produce:
1. Voice in one sentence.
2. 3-4 voice principles, each with a "we do this / not this" pair.
3. A tone-shift matrix: how the voice flexes across 4 contexts (e.g. error, success, marketing, support).
4. A short word bank: words we love and words we avoid.
5. Before/after rewrites of 3 sample sentences to show the voice in action.

Constraints: principles must be specific enough to settle a real copy disagreement. Avoid generic claims like "friendly and professional" without showing what that means in words.

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Variables

Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.

  • {{brand}}
  • {{audience}}
  • {{traits}}
Recommended models
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pro
Tags
#voice#tone#branding#copy

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