JellyFish Lighting
Brand Guidelines
Updated 1/18/2024
JellyFish Lighting is the premier outdoor lighting company dedicated to making life brighter.
We design products that illuminate the spaces and moments that hold significant meaning in people's lives.
We build with the intent of creating long-lasting, intuitive, and innovative lighting solutions.
These solutions, in turn, transform ordinary spaces into welcoming and aesthetically pleasing environments—ideal settings for the unfolding of life's most cherished and defining moments.
Brand Overview
JellyFish Lighting stands as the leader in outdoor lighting, committed to enhancing significant spaces and moments with our lighting solutions. We strive to deliver products that illuminate, innovate, and inspire, transforming ordinary spaces into settings of beauty and warmth for life's cherished moments.
Brand Voice Fundamentals
Brand Personality:
We are innovative, reliable, honest, and accessible. Our products lead in lighting technology, are built to last, embody transparency, and aim to make brighter living available to everyone.
Tone of Voice:
Marketing and Sales: We adopt an enthusiastic and inviting tone, highlighting our commitment to innovation and ease of use.
Customer Support: Our tone is warm, understanding, and helpful, emphasizing our reliability and trustworthiness.
Technical Documentation: We communicate with clarity and precision, yet remain approachable, demonstrating our meticulous attention to detail.
Core Attributes:
Innovative: JellyFish Lighting stands at the forefront of lighting technology, continuously introducing new solutions to enhance homes and lives with brightness.
Reliable: The products are designed with longevity in mind, ensuring consistent and dependable illumination.
Honest: Integrity and transparency are the hallmarks of all interactions, reflecting a commitment to straightforwardness and trustworthiness.
Accessible: Believing that everyone deserves to live a brighter life, JellyFish Lighting makes its products easy to use and enjoy for all.
Personality Traits:
Forward-Thinking: Always looking ahead to the next innovation in lighting technology, aiming to bring the future of lighting into today's homes.
Dependable: Customers can count on the quality, durability, and performance of JellyFish Lighting products in all conditions.
Transparent: There's a clear, open communication style that builds trust with customers, ensuring they have all the information they need without hidden agendas.
Inclusive: With products designed for ease of use, JellyFish Lighting ensures that everyone can enhance their living spaces, regardless of technical skill.
Tone of Voice:
Marketing and Sales: The tone is enthusiastic and inviting, with a focus on the simplicity and innovative aspects of the products, making every communication an invitation to explore and embrace brighter living.
Customer Support: A warm, understanding, and helpful tone prevails, fostering a sense of reliability and trust, ensuring that every customer feels valued and supported.
Technical Documentation: Clarity, precision, and approachability define the technical communications, emphasizing the attention to detail that goes into every product while ensuring information is accessible.
Application in Communication:
Written Communication: Website content and emails/newsletters are crafted with engaging, optimistic language that highlights the transformative impact of JellyFish Lighting solutions, encouraging exploration and celebration.
Spoken Communication: Presentations and customer service calls are infused with enthusiasm, confidence, and empathy, focusing on creating brighter, happier homes and resolving issues with patience and understanding.
Digital Communication: Social media strategies employ a mix of inspiring, fun, and educational content to engage audiences, using emojis and hashtags sparingly to enhance the brand's message.
Language and Vocabulary:
We utilize straightforward, direct language that reflects our dedication to accessibility and innovation. We focus on our core values of durability, honesty, and effortless innovation in all our communications, avoiding jargon to maintain inclusivity.
Application of Brand Voice
Written Communication: On our website, we employ engaging, optimistic language that encourages exploration of our products. Emails and newsletters are kept friendly and informative, with updates on innovations and special offers.
Spoken Communication: Presentations are delivered with enthusiasm and confidence, emphasizing the joy our products bring to homes. Customer service interactions are patient, empathetic, and focused on solutions.
Digital Communication: Our social media strategy includes a mix of inspiring, fun, and educational content. We use emojis and hashtags like #LiveBrighter and #BrighterLiving sparingly to complement our messaging.
Brand Voice Examples
Good Examples:
Marketing campaigns that showcase the transformative effect of our lighting solutions with before-and-after scenarios.
Customer service emails that resolve issues while also enhancing the customer's product experience.
Bad Examples:
Overly technical product descriptions that don't clearly communicate benefits.
Social media posts filled with industry jargon that alienates the general audience.
Maintaining Brand Voice Consistency
Monitoring and Feedback: We will conduct regular reviews of our communications to ensure adherence to our brand voice guidelines. Feedback from customers and team members will be instrumental in refining our approach.
3.1
Primary logo
Consistent logo usage across all materials is paramount for both brand recognition and visual harmony. This section outlines recommended practices for employing the JellyFish Lighting logo.
Preferred color palette: When possible, use the brandmark in full color, featuring the left tentacle in red, the middle tentacle in blue, and the right tentacle in green. These specific colors should not be altered for any application except app icons.
Contrast considerations: When the logo appears on a background with low contrast, use white or black versions of the brandmark.
Wordmark color: Always render the wordmark text in either white or black, depending on the necessary contrast against the background.
3.2
Logo lockup
The primary configuration of the logo showcases the JellyFish brandmark positioned to the left, followed by the wordmark to the right. The letter "E" in the wordmark serves two purposes:
Spacing: It establishes the optimal distance between the brandmark and wordmark.
Clearance: It defines the appropriate amount of space needed around the entire logo.
Restrictions:
Modification: The brandmark and wordmark must never be flipped, rotated, or stretched in any way.
Integrity: The second line of the wordmark ("Lighting") must always be present and unaltered.
3.3
Brandmark
The JellyFish Lighting brandmark depicts a jellyfish with illuminated bulbs adorning its tentacles. This distinctive symbol represents the company's focus on innovative and aesthetically pleasing lighting solutions.
The brandmark should be used in conjunction with the JellyFish Lighting wordmark whenever feasible. This combined presentation reinforces brand recognition and clarity.
Where to use of the brandmark alone:
App icons: For mobile app icons, where space constraints often necessitate a concise representation, the brandmark may be employed independently.
Social media icons: Similarly, on social media platforms where profile picture dimensions demand a simplified visual, the brandmark can stand alone.
Navigation elements: When used for website or application navigation elements, the brandmark may function effectively without the accompanying wordmark.
Hardware & merchandise: On branded merchandise or apparel, such as hardware, t-shirts, and hats, the brandmark can be effectively used on its own to create a more subtle brand impression.
3.4
Alternative logo (for vertical use)
This vertical logo should be rarely used. There are some layouts where the horizontal space is too constrained, and the primary logo simply does not work. In that case, use the following logo.
3.5
Authorized Dealer seal
The Authorized Dealer seal is intended for use by authorized dealers on marketing or store materials. We offer two seals. One that works well at small sizes for web presence, patches, and stickers. The other works well for displays like signage.
The seal should always be white or black.
3.6
Brand name
Follow these rules for referring to the JellyFish Lighting brand name in regular body text.
Capitalize the J and F.
JellyFish Lighting is the premier outdoor lighting company dedicated to making life brighter.
Don't lowercase the brand name.
jellyfish lighting is the premier outdoor lighting company dedicated to making life brighter.
Don't uppercase the brand name.
JELLYFISH LIGHTING is the premier outdoor lighting company dedicated to making life brighter.
Don't forget to capitalize the F in JellyFish.
Jellyfish Lighting is the premier outdoor lighting company dedicated to making life brighter.
3.7
Logo do-nots
The following examples show how to misuse the logo. These scenarios are unacceptable.
Don't change the colors.
Don't move or change the size of elements.
Don't flip the brandmark.
Don't rotate.
Don't stretch.
Don't use only the wordmark.
Don't add effects.
Don't outline.
Don't drop the second word in the wordmark.
Colorado
Don't change the second word in the wordmark.
Don't add elements.
Permanent outdoor lighting
Don't add text inside the safe zone (the other grey box).
Don't use the color brandmark on a low-contrast background.
If you have to squint to make out the logo's shape, it's low contrast.
Don't add shapes.
JellyFish
Lighting
Don't change the font of the logo.
4.1
Color palette
Black
Hex
RGB
CMYK
#000000
0, 0, 0
35, 0, 0, 100
White
Hex
RGB
CMYK
#ffffff
255, 255, 255
0, 0, 0, 0
#3557D1
#DF473D
Red
Hex
RGB
CMYK
#DF473D
223, 71, 61
0, 68, 73, 13
Blue
Hex
RGB
CMYK
#3557D1
53, 87, 209
75, 58, 0, 18
Green
Hex
RGB
CMYK
#00BC4B
0, 188, 75
100, 0, 60, 26
5.1
Heading typeface
Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface.
It's based on Colophon Foundry's fixed-width Space Mono family (2016).
It's based on Colophon Foundry's fixed-width Space Mono family (2016).
Space Grotesk
Space Grotesk should be used for display-sized text (18px and above).
5.2
Body typeface
Mona Sans is a strong and versatile typeface, designed with Degarism and inspired by industrial-era grotesques. Mona Sans works well across product, web, and print.
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Mona Sans
Mona Sans should be used for body-sized text (18px and below).
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