Generate professional brand guides in Adobe Illustrator with Guideit™. Organize your logos, colors, and fonts into a client-ready brand presentation instantly.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Kwaku, the solo founder behind Akrivi — and today I’m sharing something I’ve wanted to build for over 4 years: Guideit, a brand guidelines generator inside Adobe Illustrator.
Excited… and still a little nervous 😅
But this time, it’s real — Guideit is officially available today to try for free!
I’ve been a logo & brand identity designer for almost 10 years, working with clients across different industries. And there’s one universal truth every designer knows:
👉 Creating brand guidelines is the most boring, draining part of every branding project.
You finish the brand identity, you’re excited… and then the admin begins.
When I interviewed and surveyed nearly 500 designers, I learned something shocking but unsurprising:
75% of designers spend 8–40 hours creating a single brand guidelines document.
That’s not just time — it’s mental and creative energy.
Dragging logos. Typing color codes. Fixing spacing. Re-exporting PDFs.
It kills momentum and drains the fun out of the process.
Designers told me they wanted three things:
⚡️ Speed — create guidelines fast
🎨 Style — clean, modern templates
🛜 Shareability — simple sharing and effortless updates
So I set out to build exactly that.
Guideit:
✔ Generates brand guidelines in seconds
✔ Lives inside Illustrator (no platform switching)
✔ Uses a growing library of Automated Templates™
✔ Lets you share one Google Drive link
✔ Updates automatically with an Apply Changes button
✔ Removes the stress from guideline creation
After years of wanting to fix this problem, I finally built the tool I always wished existed.
How it works:
1️⃣ Upload your logo, fonts, and colors
2️⃣ Choose a template
3️⃣ Click Generate
4️⃣ Share with your client using Google Drive
5️⃣ Apply changes anytime — updates sync automatically
It’s the fastest way to create brand guidelines. Period.
We already have just under 10,000 designers on the waitlist, and today marks the official countdown to launch.
If you’re a designer — or know someone who spends hours building brand guidelines — I’d love for you to check it out and share feedback.
Thanks so much for the support today 🙏🏿
— Kwaku
www.akrivi.io/guideit
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Guideit solves a very real and often overlooked problem in brand delivery. Automating guideline creation directly inside Illustrator removes a lot of manual friction and keeps teams aligned as brands evolve. An important insight here is that guidelines only work when they stay current and easy to share. From a technical and onboarding perspective, how do you detect and manage changes to source assets like logos or fonts over time, and what safeguards ensure updates do not accidentally overwrite intentional brand variations?
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Guideit
Guideit solves a very real and often overlooked problem in brand delivery. Automating guideline creation directly inside Illustrator removes a lot of manual friction and keeps teams aligned as brands evolve. An important insight here is that guidelines only work when they stay current and easy to share. From a technical and onboarding perspective, how do you detect and manage changes to source assets like logos or fonts over time, and what safeguards ensure updates do not accidentally overwrite intentional brand variations?