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Start Your Brand Boarding with This Free PSD Template

Brand board for laurenashpole.com

A few months ago, I started trying to do a little design cleanup on this site and it prompted me to finally do something I probably should’ve done way back at the beginning: create a brand board. Even though it’s a little late in the game, it still turned out to be a pretty useful task. It helped weed out some patterns and colors that didn’t quite mesh with the rest of the site. It inspired some new approaches. I’ve also started doing a stripped down version for creating promo assets for my fonts.

I started out with the free template from Nesha Woolery’s great post How to create a brand board but made some changes based on my own quirks and preferences. I found it easier to use Smart Objects for patterns, wanted a more widely available font for labels, didn’t need an extra section for alternative logos, etc. Since that original template was so useful as a starting point for me, I thought I should pay it forward and offer up my version for download.

The file is available as a PSD created with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 and you can take a look at the layout below.

Download it here.Brand Board Template

Creative Market is offering another great weekly freebie. Texture Card Builder by Uniyok is an awesome vector brush set that you can download now (week of 05/20/19).

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This gorgeous set of watercolor leaves is free right now (week of 02/18/19) on Design Cuts. All of the options are so pretty!

Go download them now. 

Get Ready for Some Color Fonts

Later this week I’ll be releasing my first attempt at a color font so it seems like a good time to look at some of the awesome examples that are already out there.

If you need a quick overview of color fonts - how they work, where you can use them, etc. - colorfonts.wtf and Adobe Typekit have helpful primers. Unfortunately, support on the web (Firefox and Microsoft Edge only) isn’t great just yet but these fonts are still worth checking out now.

Free Fonts

Bungee by David Jonathan Ross Font Poster

Bungee by David Jonathan Ross

Not only is this font great, this page is a great example of horizontal scroll page design.

Color Tube by Ivan Filipov Font Poster

Color Tube by Ivan Filipov

Playbox by Matt Lyon Font Poster

Playbox by Matt Lyon

Creative Market (Premium) Fonts

Olcino by Igor Petrovi Font Poster

Olcino by Igor Petrovic

Memphis by Anugraha Design Font Poster

Memphis by Anugraha Design

Bouquet by bloomxxvi Font Poster

Bouquet by bloomxxvi