Marketing & GrowthCreative & MediaOpen accessPublished 2 Oct 2026
Use when the user needs to define, document, or enforce how the brand SOUNDS in writing — three personality traits, a five-dimension tone table, vocabulary to use, avoid, and ban, sentence rules, before and after rewrites, platform adaptation, and a copy approval checklist. Every content skill reads it before writing. Trigger on 'brand voice', 'tone of voice', 'voice guidelines', 'banned words list', 'this copy does not sound like us', 'every writer sounds different'. Also use when the user cannot say why a draft feels wrong. Not for — the visual side of brand, see `46-brand-guideline-global`; positioning and the message, see `58-positioning-global`; approving one specifi…