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When a PDF brand guide is enough — and when the client needs a URL

A Dutch identity studio still delivers a PDF. The client files it. Six months later a printer or a web builder asks for the hex, and nobody can find the file.

A PDF is enough when the studio stays in the loop, or the job is one printed run.

A live URL is better when the client will forward the guide to a printer, a developer, or an intern who was not in the briefing. One link. No login. No version folder.

Brandpad Brand is $50 per month for two brands (their help / pricing page). That is a portal. Overkill if you just delivered one identity and want it to stay findable for a year. Notion or Drive cover “here are the colours”, but they are not a single stable URL.

We are testing whether a NL graphic studio would pay €49 once for twelve months — one hosted guide URL, no account. Demand test: the iDEAL button records intent and does not charge. Page: huisstijlhost.sinoxi.nl

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