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User Guide — For Brand Owners

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From registering your organization to adding, editing, and publishing logos and brand colors — the steps for anyone managing a brand on MediaKit™.

The screens in this guide are the actual parts of the MediaKit™ dashboard, running here. Drop files, pick colors, try them. Files go nowhere and nothing is saved. The samples use brand assets from our own products: MediaKit™, Werp™, Creators Team and Drone24™.

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What is MediaKit™?

MediaKit™ is a platform for managing a company's or organization's branding assets — logos, corporate colors, and more — in one place. You can upload logo assets of various types in the file format you need. Instead of digging through cloud storage for a share link or asking your in-house designer every time, you can share your logos and corporate colors just by saying: check MediaKit™.

Getting a brand published takes three things.

  1. 1

    Register

    Create an account and register the organization (the brand). It costs nothing.
  2. 2

    Add the assets

    Add the logos, brand colors and guidelines. Logos alone are enough to start: most of the guidelines draw themselves.
  3. 3

    Share the link

    Send the page's link. When someone asks for your logo, the link is all you need to send.
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Registering your organization

  1. 1
    First, sign up from the header. It's completely free.
  2. 2
    Once you enter the required information and complete registration, a dedicated page (your organization's page) is created.

Once registered, you land on the organization's dashboard. The tabs along the top switch between its parts.

mdkt.in/dashboard/orgs/mdktLive — try it
  1. 1

    The address of the public page

    Opens the public page. This is the address you share.
  2. 2

    The tabs

    Logos, photos, colors, guidelines, link, settings, members. Each kind of asset is added on its own tab.
  3. 3

    The Settings tab

    Configure each item from the Settings tab, then click Save.

    For publication settings, see Publication settings on this page.

    The thumbnail shown on search and browse listings is your dedicated workspace image if you've set one, otherwise your first logo by default once you've registered at least one -- pick a specific logo instead under Listing Thumbnail in Settings.

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Registering brand colors

After you add a logo (one at a time or in bulk), MediaKit™ looks at its artwork and offers to register the colors it finds (up to 8) -- skipping pure black and white, and anything close to a color you've already registered -- with a name pre-filled from a set of reference color names, all pre-checked. Uncheck any you don't want, edit names as needed, and click Register.

Adding a color

This is only shown on your own organization's page.

mdkt.in/dashboard/orgs/crtm/colorsLive — try it

株式会社 Creators Team

mdkt.in/@crtm
#DFF000
#CAD900
  1. 1

    Add a new color

    It sits after the colors you already have. Press it to get a new swatch.
  2. 2

    Name

    Type it straight onto the swatch. No dialog opens.
  3. 3

    Pick the color

    The color chip opens your system's color picker.
  4. 4

    Or write the HEX

    You can type the code instead. Change either one and the other follows.

A Save button appears as soon as the swatch is new or edited, but stays disabled until you give it a name -- click it once it's active to add the color.

Editing a color

  1. 1

    Change a color's name, HEX code, or color the same way as when adding one -- directly on its swatch, no popup involved.

    This is only shown while signed in.

  2. 2
    A Save button (and Cancel, to undo) appears once you've changed something. Click Save to keep it.
  3. 3
    Finally, click Save at the bottom right to save your changes.

Deleting a color

  1. 1

    Click the trash icon at the right end of the color's row.

    This is only shown while signed in.

  2. 2

    Clicking the trash icon opens a confirmation popup. Click Confirm to delete it.

    This action cannot be undone.

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Copying color codes

Visitors can copy your registered brand colors using the steps below.

mdkt.in/@werpLive — try it

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  1. 1

    Name

    The name the owner gave the color. Write it alongside the code and others will know which color you mean.
  2. 2

    HEX

    The code most websites and design tools take. Press it to copy; it shows COPIED!.
  3. 3

    RGB

    For where a color is written as rgb(). Press it to copy that, too.
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Publication settings

Your organization's page can be set to one of the following three publication states.

mdkt.in/dashboard/orgs/dr24/settingsLive — try it

Choose on the Settings tab, under visibility, and press Save.

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Guidelines

Even if you write nothing, these figures are drawn from the logos you registered.

  • About the Usage Guidelines

    Covers things to keep in mind when using a logo, and whether modifications are allowed.
  • About Logo Clearance

    Shows the required clear space around a logo — an area where no other elements should be placed.
    Because logo size varies widely across media, clearance is often measured using a part of the logo itself as the unit, rather than an absolute unit like px or mm.

    MediaKit™ lets you choose from the following units.

    mdkt.in/@crtmLive — try it

    Clear space

    Keep this protected area around the logo free of any other elements (some figures are auto-generated by MediaKit™).

    0.1 × logo width

    Logo width0.1 × logo width

    0.5 × logo height

    Logo height0.5 × logo height

    24px

    Pixel24px

    1. 1

      Logo width

      This unit is the width of the whole logo, measured from the edge of what's actually drawn rather than the edge of the image file. Suited to tall or vertical logos.
    2. 2

      Logo height

      This unit is the height of the whole logo, measured the same way. If you leave the amount empty, 1 × logo height is published.
    3. 3

      Pixel

      A fixed length in px, the same whatever size the logo is shown at.
  • The other figures

    mdkt.in/@dr24Live — try it

    Minimum size

    The smallest size each style should be used at. Where the owner hasn't set one, MediaKit™ shows a reference value instead. px is for screens and mm is for print; they are set separately, not converted from one another.

    24px / 8mm

    Symbol

    96px / 24mm

    Horizontal Set

    Usage on backgrounds

    Derived from the theme each mark was registered with (for light / dark surfaces). Check colored surfaces on each logo card's Brand tab.

    White

    Black

    Logo misuse

    Standard misuse rules that apply to brand logos in general (reference figures auto-generated by MediaKit™).

    Do not rotate

    Do not distort

    Do not recolor

    Do not add shadows

    Do not obscure

    Do not place on low-contrast backgrounds

    1. 1

      Minimum size

      How small the logo may go. For each mark, a size for screens (px) and one for print (mm).
    2. 2

      Backgrounds

      Whether the logo may sit on white and on black, marked with ✓ and ✗.
    3. 3

      Misuse

      Examples of what not to do: tilting, stretching, recoloring and so on.
  • Notes

    When using a logo published on this platform online or in print, please keep the following in mind.

    • Comply with this platform's Terms of Service.
    • Carefully review the guidelines provided by the logo's owner, and always use the logo in accordance with them.
    • Unless otherwise noted in the guidelines, do not modify or redistribute any file downloaded from this platform.
    • Do not copy this platform, whether publicly or privately.

    Creators Team Inc., the company operating this platform, accepts no responsibility for any damages arising from the use of this platform.

What you can configure

All of the following default to the automatic pick or shown state -- an org that never touches the Guidelines tab still publishes something sensible.

  • Clear space and minimum size are set per logo style, each with its own toggle to hide it. They share one representative logo per style for their figures -- pick it (when a style has more than one logo) from the selector on that style's Clear Space card; auto-picked otherwise.
  • The misuse examples and the usage-on-backgrounds samples each let you choose which logo they demonstrate on, and individual misuse tiles can be hidden.
  • Naming rules can be turned off entirely, and its auto-generated "wrong notation" examples can be removed or supplemented with ones you add yourself.
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Reporting content

If you believe content on this platform falls under any of the following, please report it to us using the Report button at the top right of the organization's page.

  • Trolling, spam, or the downloadable file is harmful
  • Sexual or violent language, expression, or design
  • It infringes on your rights or the rights of your organization
  • It otherwise violates this platform's Terms of Service
  • It otherwise contains language, expression, or design that may offend viewers
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Deleting & leaving

Leave a workspace

  1. 1

    Open the "Members" tab and click "Leave organization" at the bottom of the page.

    This is only shown while signed in.

  2. 2

    Confirm by clicking "Leave" -- you'll lose access to this workspace. You can only rejoin if a member invites you again.

    The sole administrator can't leave -- make another member an admin first, or delete the workspace instead.

Delete a workspace

  1. 1

    Open the "Settings" tab and scroll to the "Danger zone" at the bottom.

    This is only shown while signed in.

  2. 2

    Type the workspace's URL to confirm, then click "Delete Organization."

    Everything this workspace owns -- logos, colors, guidelines, photos, members, and invitations -- is deleted along with it.

    This action cannot be undone.

Delete your account

  1. 1

    Click "Delete account" at the bottom of your dashboard's top page.

    This is only shown while signed in.

  2. 2

    Confirm in the dialog by clicking "Delete anyway" -- your account is permanently deleted.

    You can't delete your account while you still belong to a workspace -- leave or delete every workspace first.

    This action cannot be undone.

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