Background
The color behind your text: white or a light brand color.
Presentation brand kit: your colors, fonts and logo on every slide
Template
Your company has a presentation template, but people still build each new deck from a copy of the last one.
Copies
Everyone copies a colleague’s deck and tweaks it, so each copy changes a color, a font or the logo.
Six months later, the team has ten similar decks instead of one company deck.
Why
A presentation template is a file, and it doesn’t stop anyone from changing a color or a font, or moving the logo.
The brand book doesn’t help either: it runs to forty pages, and nobody reads them.
Style
People recognize a company’s slide by its background, text color, two fonts and logo. Plainline asks for only these five settings.
Text
For headlines and paragraphs. Dark, but not necessarily black.
Headline font
For headlines and large numbers.
Text font
For paragraphs, lists and labels.
Logo
SVG or PNG with a transparent background.
You’ll find all of this on the first pages of your brand book. No brand book? Take the colors and fonts from your company website.
Plainline handles the rest of the design: it picks an accent, checks contrast and places your logo.
Accent
Plainline picks a third color for charts and large numbers.
It stands out next to your text and reads well on the background. Want your own? Set it by hand.
Contrast
Plainline checks that text in your brand color is readable on a slide.
If text is hard to read, Plainline warns you and can fix the color.
Logo
Add your logo once, and Plainline shows it on every slide or only on the first and last.
Pick one of four corners and, if you like, a thin line under it.
Edits
Your colors, fonts and logo stay the same while you edit.
Rewrite text, add slides or press Layout: presentation design stays consistent across your team.
Example
One update in the styles of three companies: only the colors, fonts and logo change.
Strict template
Need every layout from your company’s PowerPoint template? An assistant inside PowerPoint will suit you better. Plainline carries over the template’s colors, fonts and logo, not the layouts.
FAQ
What is a presentation brand kit?
It’s the colors, fonts and logo that go into every deck. In Plainline, that’s five settings: background color, text color, headline font, text font and logo.
How do I add a logo to all slides?
Open Style, upload your logo, pick a corner and choose “All slides”. It appears on every slide of the decks that use your style.
Can I upload our company presentation template?
No, Plainline doesn’t import PowerPoint template files. Take the colors, fonts and logo from your template: that’s enough to make the deck look like yours.
Can I use our own font?
Yes. Pick one from Google Fonts or upload a TTF, OTF, WOFF or WOFF2 file.
Will the font survive in PowerPoint?
Plainline writes only the font’s name into the PowerPoint file. If the recipient doesn’t have that font, PowerPoint shows a similar one. Recipients can install any Google font for free.
What if our brand color is hard to read?
Plainline warns you when text is hard to read on the background and can pick a darker or lighter shade.
Will my old presentations change?
No. Plainline adds your style to new decks, and you can switch an older deck to it by hand.
Can I have several styles?
For now, one style per account.
