Brand Guidelines
Design Kit
Everything you need to make something that comes out on-brand and genuinely nice, whichever tool you reach for. Browse the template system below, then download the files built straight from the brand.
Template system
One brand language across every deck, drawn straight from the website. Choose a theme and layout family to browse the system – then download the .potx to use it in PowerPoint.
1Choose a theme
Theme · Title slides
Title & section headers
Full-bleed brand colour, the title living inside a contrasting rounded block, soft blobs behind. For Vibrant: bright and bold. For Corporate: navy-led with a gold accent rule.
Content
Title & content layouts
The working slides – navy titles on light grounds for readability, with a discreet slide number. Four ways to lay out a content slide: stat cards, bulleted list, text + image, and two columns.
Standard
Standard PowerPoint set
The familiar PowerPoint layout set, NSEMM-styled, so anyone builds a deck the usual way. Navy titles on light grounds, rounded-rect content areas.
Framed
Framed layouts (rounded-rect bed)
A full-bleed colour margin with a large rounded rectangle as the bed for the content. Reads like a screen; doubles for video/webinar holding slides. Three colour variants.
Video & channel
Video & channel assets
The same language sized for video. In PowerPoint these ship as neutrally-named layouts – Cover, Title Card, Lower Third, End Card – never "YouTube" in the part names.
Component
Rounded-rect block
The same rounded rectangle on its own, a reusable callout/stat/card. One shape, every brand colour, contrast auto-paired. Outline variant for the Corporate theme.
Type
Text settings
The recurring ways text is set, Sora for display, Readex Pro for reading. Consistent scale, weights and spacing across every template.
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Video & channel assets
Cover, Title Card, Lower Third, End Card and Channel cover – plus the clean title-slide starter. Every tile is the exact SVG you download.
Downloads
Built on demand from the canonical brand, never stale.
These assets are free to use for anyone who needs NSEMM brand materials – no sign-in required.
PowerPoint templates
NSEMM + NSEMM Corporate
Two ready-to-use .potx themes – Vibrant and Corporate – with the brand colours, Sora + Readex Pro fonts and the full layout inventory (title-on-block, content, framed beds, video). Pick a theme and download from the wizard.
Adobe swatches (RGB)
nsemm-brand-rgb.ase
The full palette as an Adobe Swatch Exchange library for screen work in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
Adobe swatches (CMYK)
nsemm-brand-cmyk.ase
The same palette in CMYK for print-led layouts, with Pantone-matched values baked in from the brand.
Slide & video/channel graphics
SVG templates
Every slide and video/channel asset – title card, section divider, lower third, end card, channel cover and thumbnail – downloads as an SVG that is identical to its preview above. See the video & channel set just below.
Design tokens
brand.tokens.json
A W3C DTCG token file for Figma, Tokens Studio, and any tool that speaks the standard token format.
Set up your tool
A few one-time steps so the brand is at your fingertips wherever you work.
Install the brand fonts
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NSEMM uses Sora for headings and Readex Pro for body text. Both are free on Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font Licence.
- 2
Download each family from Google Fonts and install it on your computer so PowerPoint, Canva, and the Adobe apps render the brand faces rather than substitutes.
- 3
In web PowerPoint the fonts may still substitute. The template embeds them, and we publish them as organisation fonts where Microsoft 365 allows it.
Canva (non-designers)
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NSEMM qualifies for Canva for Nonprofits (registered charity 1209673), which unlocks Brand Kits and locked Brand Templates for free.
- 2
In the Canva Brand Kit, add the palette by hex, upload Sora and Readex Pro, and upload the logo.
- 3
Snap together a slide, social post, poster, or thumbnail from a locked Brand Template, and it stays on-brand automatically.
Adobe Creative Cloud
- 1
Download the .ase swatch file above (RGB for screen, CMYK for print) and load it into the Swatches panel in Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign.
- 2
For a kit that follows you across the Adobe apps and Express, create a CC Library named "NSEMM Brand" and add the colours, character styles for Sora and Readex Pro, and the logo.
- 3
The swatch group is stamped with the brand version so you can tell at a glance whether it is current.
Always on-brand
Every file here is generated from the same source as the rest of this brand hub. When the brand changes, the downloads change with it: no manual re-export, no drift.