The kit is the source
Every color, font and logo in a design points back to the kit. Edit it there and the change reaches every template that uses it. We don’t keep copies.
About Fontaine
The brand system for teams that can’t wait on a review
We make the rules once, then let the software keep them.
Fontaine began with a narrow complaint: a marketing team publishes every day, and one designer reads every post. We built the kit, the locked templates and the approval thread so that the designer’s time goes into the system and not the queue.
01 — The problem
Off-brand is rarely careless
A post goes out in the old green because the old logo was in a folder. A deck carries last year’s tagline because nobody told the person who copied it. Nobody was careless. The kit simply lived in a PDF, and a PDF can’t object.
Guidelines that can’t push back get ignored.
The usual fix is a review step, and a review step becomes a queue. The designer reads every post, the team waits, and the calendar slips. Fontaine moves the check to the moment of creation: the wrong color isn’t offered, the locked logo can’t be nudged, and a retired mark is gone from the picker.
02 — Principles
Four rules we build by
They settle most arguments about what goes into the product, and what stays out.
Constraints beat reviews
A locked layer can’t be moved, so there is nothing to catch afterwards. We would rather remove a mistake than flag it.
Designers set it, teammates use it
The people who care most about the brand decide what can change. Everyone else gets room to write, resize and publish without asking.
Quiet software
Few notifications, few settings, no dashboards for their own sake. If a feature needs a tour to be understood, it isn’t finished.
03 — Built and supported
Boring where it counts
Fontaine is a web application that runs in the browser, with an API for the places a brand kit has to travel, such as code, invoices and help-center art. We would rather be dependable than clever.
- Versioned, alwaysEvery kit change and every design edit keeps its history, so a rollback is two clicks.
- Access that matches the org chartRole permissions and SSO on Atelier. Editors, reviewers and viewers on every plan.
- Support that reads your kitWrite to support@tryfontaine.com and your message goes to a person who can open the same workspace you are looking at.
- Your files stay yoursExport the whole library and the kit whenever you like. Leaving shouldn’t need a ticket.
04 — Where it’s going
What we are working on
No dates, because dates we can’t keep help nobody. The order is the order we are building in.
Deeper locking
Rules that go beyond layers: minimum type sizes, protected margins around the logo, and color pairings that must hold contrast.
More formats
Presentations and long-form documents built from the same locked grid as social posts, with the same one-click resize.
Kit across tools
Brand tokens published to more of the tools your team already uses, through the API and the integrations page in settings.
Plans are billed yearly, from $159. The kit is in every one of them.
05 — Start
Give the kit a job
Choose a plan, invite the team, and the next post is built from the kit.
Start today