How To Build An Iconography Do Dont Sheet From A Brand Tone Brief
Icon sheets invent a 32px grid and a fourth hex. Grid was 24px and three colors. Do not draw other-brand marks.
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Lock grid stroke and hex before any do rule
Build an iconography do/don't sheet from a brand tone brief. No trademarked marks, no invented grid specs, not a Recraft SVG generator. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Brand tone brief: [Brief]
Grid, stroke, and corner values I lock (or UNKNOWN): [Grid]
Palette tokens I may use (hex as pasted): [Colors]
Icon subjects I allow: [Subjects]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent: [Never]
Marks I forbid (trademarks, other logos): [Forbid]
Output format: [Format]
Languages: [Lang]
Sizes I allow: [Sizes]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Don't list must include Forbid marks
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Brief, Grid, Colors, Subjects, Sizes, Forbid, Lang. Forbidden: trademarked marks, extra hex, extra grid numbers.
- Do list: five rules from Brief+Grid+Colors+Subjects only. If Grid is UNKNOWN, write UNKNOWN rather than inventing 24px.
- Don't list: five rules including Forbid and no other-brand logos, no celebrity, no fake UI chrome of a named OS.
- Subject map: one allowed metaphor per Subjects entry. If a needed subject is missing, write NOT IN INPUTS.
- Color use: only Colors hex. If a second tone is not pasted, do not invent one.
- Size lock: only Sizes. If Sizes is NONE, write NOT IN INPUTS.
- Refuse: Recraft prompt dump, SVG path dump, drawing Apple/Google/Meta marks, drawing a lock that copies a famous brand lock.
- Compliance pass: cut Banned and Never. Quote any invented px or hex and remove them. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Subjects only from the allow list
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- Iconography do/don't sheet from a brand tone brief. Not a Recraft SVG generator.
- Never invent trademarked marks, hex codes, or grid sizes not in Inputs.
- Only Subjects named in Inputs.
- No emojis unless Brief includes them.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Not a Recraft SVG dump
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (iconography do dont sheet, brand tone icon rules, no trademarked marks icons) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.