Contentious content

A brand and style guide, a pattern library and an instruc­tion manual for how to craft all things Contentious.

Foundations

The under­lying building blocks of our brand and content. These things make us who we are and explain why we do things the way we do.

Brand essence

Conten­tious boiled down. To a tasty quintessence.

Strategy

How we use content to achieve our aims.

Principles

The rules we live and work by.

Words

A manual for how we put letters and words together to make sense and sentences.

Style

The rules by which we craft our words.

Lexicon

An A–Z of words and phrases and how we use them.

Voice and tone

Our person­ality and how we express it. Also, how we use it in context.

Visuals

The parts of our iden­tity you can see.

Colours

The Conten­tious palette.

Typography

Sizing, spacing, font choices.

Illustrations

How we use images and graphic devices.

Logo

How we use our logo and monogram.