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The guidelines, for every client you take on.

Clients hire you for the identity and then ask for the guidelines. Build each client’s system in its own project, and send a deck with their name on the cover and yours at the foot of every slide.

A share link opened in a browser. A bar across the top offers Deck and Preview, then Print to PDF, design.md, tokens.css, Figma tokens and Swatches SVG. Below is the deck’s cover slide: Saltline Design System.
What a client sees at the link: the deck, the live previews, a print button and the files.
  1. Their name, and yours

    Add the client’s name and your studio, email and website in Settings. The cover carries theirs, and the footer of every slide carries yours.

  2. A project isn’t used until it leaves

    A project counts as used the first time you share a link or export a file from it. Delete one before that and you get it back for the next client.

  3. The handover is a link

    Send one address. The client opens the deck, prints it to PDF if they want paper, and downloads the files their developer needs.

What you hand over

A deck, made from the settings.

These are slides from the deck Diagramma made for an example project. Yours carries your own colours, type, logo and words.

Deck slide: the cover. Saltline Design System, with the mode, the month it was last updated, the audience and the format.
Cover
Deck slide: How it sounds. The project’s personality, voice, tone, do, don’t and an example sentence.
Voice and tone
Deck slide: Do’s and don’ts. Five rules to follow, five to avoid.
Do’s and don’ts

The plan

Pro. 3 projects.

$199 · one payment

Three projects, for three clients. Buy any plan again when you take on more.

No subscription, and nothing renews. Projects don’t expire.

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