SaaS branding
A B2B buyer has to defend their choice to a boss, a finance team and the people who will use the tool every day. Your brand is the evidence they bring to that meeting.
Manrope for headings, IBM Plex Sans for text.
Next week's rota is ready
A sample brand board for a fictional rota planning tool: a dark base, one product colour, a status colour kept for alerts, and a product screen that carries the brand.
What your customer checks
Most buyers research alone before they speak to sales. These are the signals they look for on your site and in your deck.
Show the actual product early. Illustrations of abstract shapes make buyers wonder what you are hiding.
Logos, quotes and numbers from companies the buyer recognises in their own industry.
Where data is stored, who can see it and which standards you meet, on a page they can forward to IT.
A price, or at least how pricing works. Hidden pricing slows deals.
Response times, onboarding steps and a named contact. Buyers fear being stuck after they sign.
Site, product, deck and proposal in one brand. Small mismatches read as an early, unstable company.
Tone of voice
Describe what the product does in the buyer's words. Skip category buzzwords.
State results plainly, with numbers. Avoid hedging and hype alike.
Name the job, the user and the time saved. Generic benefits sound like every other tool.
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Colour
A SaaS brand is seen mostly inside the product. Choose a brand colour that works as the main action colour in the interface, then build a calm neutral scale around it for tables, forms and charts.
Keep status colours separate. Success, warning and error states need their own colours. If your brand colour is red, an error message will look like your logo.
Design for data. Charts need four to six colours that can be told apart, including by people with colour blindness. Pick them now. Body text should meet 4.5:1 contrast[1].
Type and logo
Pick a typeface family with several weights and clear numbers, so it works for headings on the site, labels in the product and figures in the deck. A sans with tabular figures is the safe choice.
A wordmark or a simple symbol with the name suits most SaaS companies. The symbol becomes the app icon, the browser tab and the avatar in integrations, so it must work at 16 pixels.
Write a short set of rules for screenshots in marketing: the same browser frame, sample data that looks real, and the brand colour only where it means something.
Where the brand shows up
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Brand book checklist
Write these down once so every designer, freelancer and agency gets them right first time.
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Write a positioning line in your buyer's words, show the real product, choose one brand colour that works in the interface, keep status colours separate, and use one typeface family across site, product and deck.
One distinctive brand colour that also works as the main action colour in the product, a calm neutral scale, separate success, warning and error colours, and a set of chart colours people can tell apart.
A symbol helps because it becomes the app icon, favicon and avatar in integrations. It should be simple enough to read at 16 pixels.
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Figures from these sources were current when this guide was written. Rules and benchmarks change, so check the latest version before you rely on one.