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Brand Voice Generator

Turn your brand personality into clear tone guidelines — a tone description, do's and don'ts, and sample phrases.

  • 100% private — runs in your browser
  • No sign-up required
  • Ready to share with your team
Brand personality

What makes a voice guide usable?

  • One personality.Pick the one you'd defend in a meeting.
  • A real audience."Everyone" gives you no voice at all.
  • Do's and don'ts.Rules writers can actually check.
  • Sample lines.Show the voice, don't just describe it.

Ready when you are

Your brand voice guide will appear here. Enter a brand name and click Generate voice guide.

A guide your whole team can write from.

Try a sample:
Brand voice

A voice guide people actually use

A consistent voice makes a business recognisable, but most teams never get past vague adjectives. “Friendly” and “professional” mean something different to everyone who reads them.

Answer a few questions about your brand and get a tone description, do’s and don’ts, and sample phrases — enough to brief a writer who was not in the room when you decided.

Voice is the personality. Tone is the weather.

Confusing the two is why most brand voice documents fail. They describe a single register, then read as wrong the first time something goes badly.

  • The voice does not change. The tone does.
  • A brand can be warm and direct in both a welcome email and an apology for an outage — same voice, very different tone.
  • A guide that only covers the cheerful register covers the easy ten percent.
Same voice, two situations
Welcome aboard — your account is live. Anything you need, we are right here.
— and when it goes wrong —
Heads up: your order is running two days late. Sorry about that. We have added free express shipping to your next one.
Warm and direct in both. The tone shifts; the personality does not.

Three dimensions are enough

More becomes a document nobody reads. These three settle almost every writing decision a team actually argues about.

  • Formal ↔ casual. Do you write “we are” or “we’re”?
  • Serious ↔ playful. Is humour ever appropriate, and where is the line?
  • Reserved ↔ enthusiastic. How much emotion do you show?
The same news, four voices
We have resolved the issue.
Formal
It is fixed.
Neutral
All sorted — sorry for the wait.
Warm
Fixed it. We owe you a coffee.
Playful
None of these is correct in isolation. The playful one is right for a consumer app and badly wrong for a payroll platform.

The technique that makes it usable

Write “this, not that” pairs. Adjectives mean something different to every person who reads them. Examples do not.

  • A pair settles an argument in a way an adjective never does.
  • They are also the part a new writer can apply on their first day without asking anyone.
  • The generator produces the voice definition and the pairs, which is the half that usually never gets written.
Adjectives against examples
What most guides say
Says"Be friendly"
A writer asksHow friendly?
Settles argumentsNo
Vague
This, not that
Says"All sorted" not "Your ticket is resolved"
A writer asksNothing
Settles argumentsYes
Usable
The examples do the work. The adjectives do not.

Where a voice is actually tested

Anyone can sound consistent in marketing copy. The voice is tested in four places, and most guidelines cover none of them.

  • Error messages, where most brands abandon their voice and revert to system defaults.
  • Bad news — outages, price rises, discontinued features.
  • Legal and billing, usually written by someone who has never read the guidelines, and support replies, the highest volume of writing most companies produce and the least governed.
The four places it breaks
Error messagesUsually system defaults
Bad newsUsually legal’s wording
Legal and billingUsually never reviewed
Support repliesHighest volume, least governed
Cover these or you have covered the easy 10%
The short version

Four numbers worth keeping

3
Dimensions are enough. More produces a document nobody consults.
4
Places a voice actually gets tested, and usually fails.
1
Test that matters: remove the logo, would a customer still know?
101
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Why Parix.ai gives this away

A voice guide is step one, and it is the step most teams skip because it feels soft. It is not: it is the thing that makes everything written afterwards consistent without anyone having to approve it. These tools are how people find us.

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Who uses it

Marketing teams onboarding a new writer. Founders writing the first version of anything. Agencies documenting a client’s voice so it survives handover.

The test for whether it is working

Remove your logo from a piece of writing. Would a customer still know it was you? If not, you have a style guide rather than a voice — rules about commas instead of a personality.

Pair it with

The Brand Style Guide Compiler, the Slogan and Tagline Generator, the Business Name Generator if the name is still moving, and the Product Description Generator to put the voice to work. Our branding team builds the full identity around it.