Burke Decor Brand Voice
Our Values
Burke Decor is an aspirational home decor retailer dedicated to making elevated style and and design accessible to everyone. Burke Decor believes that interiors should reflect the unique personalities of the people that live and work in them. The Burke Decor shopper has a home that is unique and original, curated and eclectic, and is the opposite of โcookie cutter.โ By offering our clientele a vast selection of designs hand selected from around the world, Burke Decorโs emphasizes the value of hand-selected, globally sourced designs, to create shopping experience where the art of the mix is not just possible, but easy to achieve.Our Tone
Educated, elevated, playful and welcoming. The tone is approachable yet refined, reflecting a belief in the importance of individuality and self-expression in home decor. We donโt oversell, we share our love of design in a way that is accessible and fun, yet rooted in a the history of tradition of design. Burke Decor cares about beauty, quality, individuality and is always striving to make the world a bit nicer. ย Burke Decor's brand voice conveys a message of empowerment, suggesting that creating a distinctive and personalized living space is not only possible but also easy to achieve through our broad product offering.
Grammar and Punctuation guidelines.
Proper grammar and punctuation should be used at all times.
Burke Decor is always โBurke Decor.โ It is never shorted to โBurkeโ or โBurkeโs.โย Occasionally Burke Decor will be shortened to โBD,โ but this is always in the context of a sign off or signature, or inย a casual caption that has already used โBurke Decorโ properly. ย
OUR Logo
The brand logo must be used consistently across all marketing materials. It should not be distorted or altered in any way. This section introduces the Burke Decor logo and explains how to use it in the correct way for clear and consistent messaging across all brand communication platforms.
Primary and secondary logos on dark background. It is important to ensure that there is enough contrast and that the white logo is legible.
We use the space within this version to define margins and clear space.
This is the minimum clear space required around the logo.
Colors
Burke Decor's color palette includes earthy tones and natural materials. It is inspired by our photography and created to ensure the legibility of our logo and written words. Below are and example of how we choose colors that compliment the photography.
Hex #000000
RGB R:0, G:0, B:0
CMYK C:75, M:68, Y:67, K:90
Hex #b5a27e
RGB R:181, G:162, B:126
CMYK C:27, M:33, Y:55, K:1
Hex #695448
RGB R:105, G:84, B:72
CMYK C:46, M:60, Y:67, K:32
Typography
We communicate our values through the words we choose, thus making typography a key element of our brand. Here, we explain how we use typography across Burke Decor's brand universe. Fonts have been carefully selected to work effectively both independently and collectively.
Here we show the typefaces used for product information. Please refer to the typographic hierarchy for type style information.
HOME PAGE
Text:
- Home Page Heading: Goudy Old Style
- Text: Twentieth Century Light
Image Sizes:
- Slides: 2:1 aspect, best resolution under 1mb
- Collection images: 1:1 sq (650px)
- Footer Promotions: 625px x 470px
- Splits promos: 900px x 775px
Site Blocks
Titles + Headings: Goudy Old Style
NAVIGATION / ALL CAPS
- Twentieth Century Light 13pt / tracking 25
Body Text:
- Twentieth Century Light 13pt / tracking 25
PRODUCT LISTING PAGE
Main image: Silo
Hover image: Lifestyle, Vertical ( 2:3 ratio)
PLP TITLE & Price:
- Twentieth Century
- Vendor/ Promos: Twentieth Century Light
Button Text
- Twentieth Century 16pt / 200 tracking
- All buttons have square corners
- Black background + white text, or white background
- 1pt black border with black text
- Button Text is ALL CAPS
newsletter/emails
Sub Headings/Headings
- sub headings: palatino lower case
- FUTURA ALL CAP HEADINGS
- Futura 13- 32pt.
- No Italics
- 2- 5pt. tracking
- Lifestyle imagery, background colors pulled from image
- (avoiding primary + secondary colors)
- or using black, white, or site accent color: #AF825E