Viv BrandOS · Style Guide & Design System Beta

Your brand, alive and in your hands.

Most brand guides die in a PDF nobody opens. The BrandOS Style Guide & Design System is a living brand guide that travels with your team — voice, color, type, accessibility, and AI policy, all in one link that's always current and ready to use. Try it right here.

A living link · Nothing to install · Built to grow with your mission

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This page isn't telling you about BrandOS. It's showing you.

Below is the real app — ours. Switch your role, browse the Library, copy a color token, check the contrast. This is the product.

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Why BrandOS

A brand guide that breathes.

Four ideas it's built on.

Alive, not archived

It lives on the web, updates in real time, and is ready the moment someone needs it — no stale PDFs.

In everyone's hands

From the dean to the new hire to the freelancer — everyone gets the same colors, type, voice, and rules, instantly.

Equipping, not gatekeeping

Copy a hex, grab a logo, check the voice — yourself, right now. Using the brand should feel like a gift, not a permission slip.

Grows with the mission

New programs, campaigns, sub-brands — BrandOS bends to fit what comes next, the way a real partner does.

What's inside

Everything your team reaches for — in one place.

Story and system, side by side. Each section is interactive, current, and built to be used.

Voice & Tone

How the brand sounds — with we-say / we-don't examples and a tone spectrum.

Color tokens

Click-to-copy hex, RGB, and CSS variables. The same values power every surface.

Typography

Live specimens, scale, and pairing rules — display and body, working together.

Logo & sub-brands

The real mark, clear space, reversed forms — plus the family of sister brands.

Iconography

One consistent icon system, sized and stroked to match the brand.

Imagery

Photography and illustration direction — radically human, light-filled.

Motion

How things move — calm, certain, and reduced-motion friendly.

Accessibility

Built to WCAG 2.1 AA, with a live contrast checker and a plain checklist.

AI Use policy

Clear yes / no / always rules for using AI on the brand — honest and current.

Downloads

Logo packs, color tokens, fonts, and the full guide — take the tools and go.

Start with a guide. Grow into a system.

Your brand decisions become tokens — portable, standard, and never locked to us.

A token is a brand decision saved under a name, like color-brand-violet → #351965. BrandOS stores your colors and type in the open W3C Community Group design-token format — the same $value / $type JSON that Figma, Style Dictionary, and your codebase already speak. Copy them today, grow them into live components tomorrow, and take them anywhere. Tokens are the bridge.

Brand guideDesign tokensDesign system

Built on the open W3C Community Group design-token format — an open standard, not our lock-in.

Who it's for

For brands with a lot of hands on them.

Higher education

Colleges, schools, and departments that need one identity across a thousand contributors.

Health & sciences

Systems and centers where a coherent, governed brand is non-negotiable.

Growing companies

Teams scaling fast who need everyone on-brand without a design bottleneck.

Multi-brand families

Parents with sub-brands and sister brands that share a mark and a story.

Explore the toolkit

One tool's live and ready — more on the way.

Style Guide & Design System is the BrandOS tool you can explore right now (it's the demo above). Here's the rest of the kit — what's live, and what's coming.

Coming soon to BrandOS

Site Audits

Automated brand, accessibility, and SEO health checks across your whole site.

Soon

Rule-Based Brand Governance

Set the rules once; BrandOS flags off-brand work before it ships.

Soon

Campaign Kit Builder

Spin up on-brand landing pages, social, and email kits in minutes.

Soon

Microsite / Site Switchover Tools

Stand up branded microsites and migrate sites without losing the brand.

Soon

Approval Workflows

Route assets for review and sign-off, with the brand baked into every step.

Soon
"Viv is the Lady of the Lake, who placed Excalibur in the hero's hand. We equip our clients with powerful tools for their missions. BrandOS is the one we hand you."
— The Viv promise
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Let's bring your brand to life.

See what BrandOS looks like in your colors, your voice, your mission. We never leave you hanging.