Brand Forge

Brand Forge — a toolkit for designing, generating, and managing brand assets and style guides.

Short description: Brand Forge helps teams and creators quickly prototype logos, color palettes, type scales, and styleguides, then export them as downloadable assets or code-ready tokens.

Status: DRAFT — update this README with concrete project details (stack, commands, examples) when available.

Table of contents

• About
• Key features
• Getting started
  • Prerequisites
  • Quick install (example)
  • Run locally
• Usage
  • Web UI
  • CLI (if applicable)
  • Exporting assets
• Configuration
• Development
  • Tests
  • Linting & formatting
• Deployment
• Contributing
• Roadmap & ideas
• License
• Contact

About

Brand Forge is intended to be a single place to:

• Rapidly prototype brand identities (logo concepts, color systems, typography scales).
• Generate production-ready assets (SVG/PNG logos, CSS variables, design tokens).
• Create human-friendly styleguides or developer-friendly token packages to share across projects.

This repository contains the code and assets for Brand Forge. Replace this high-level description with specifics about what this project actually contains (frontend framework, backend APIs, CLI tools, asset formats).

Key features

• Logo generator and template library
• Color palette engine with accessibility checks (contrast)
• Typography scale and variable font preview
• Export to common formats (SVG, PNG, CSS variables, JSON design tokens)
• Project templates and shareable styleguides
• CI-friendly token packaging for consumption in other repos

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js >= 16.x (if this is a Node project) OR Python >= 3.8 (if Python) — remove what doesn't apply
• Docker (optional, for containerized development)
• Any other tooling your project uses (e.g., pnpm, yarn, go, rustup)

Quick install (example - Node.js)

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/iamdanwi/brand-forge.git cd brand-forge

2. Install dependencies npm install

   or

   yarn

   or

   pnpm install

Run locally (example)

• Start development server npm run dev

  or

  npm start

• Visit http://localhost:3000 (or the address printed by your dev server)

If your repo uses a different stack, replace the commands above with the project's actual install/run commands.

Usage

Web UI

• Open the web UI (development server) and follow the on-screen flow to create a brand:
  1. Start a new project
  2. Pick or generate a palette
  3. Create/type-scale and adjust typography
  4. Build or tweak a logo
  5. Export assets or download a package

CLI (if applicable)

• Create a new brand from a template: brand-forge init my-brand --template minimal
• Export tokens: brand-forge export tokens --format json --out ./dist

Exporting assets

• Exports supported: SVG, PNG, CSS variables, JSON design tokens, SCSS maps
• Example: npm run export -- --format=svg --output=./exports/logo.svg

Configuration

• .env (or other config)
  • PORT=3000
  • NODE_ENV=development
  • LOG_LEVEL=info
• token configuration is located in /config/tokens.yml (update path as appropriate)
• Add any environment variables, config files, or runtime options the project uses.

Development

Common tasks

• Install deps: npm install
• Start dev server: npm run dev
• Build production bundle: npm run build
• Run tests: npm test

Tests

• Unit tests: Jest / vitest / pytest — replace with your test runner
• To run: npm test

  or

  pytest

Linting & formatting

• Lint: npm run lint
• Format: npm run format
• Recommended tools: ESLint, Prettier, stylelint, or language-specific linters

Deployment

• CI: Add steps to build, test, and publish assets or packages

• Example (Docker): docker build -t iamdanwi/brand-forge:latest . docker run -p 3000:3000 iamdanwi/brand-forge:latest

• Deployment targets: Vercel / Netlify / GitHub Pages for frontends, Docker / Kubernetes / Heroku for backend services

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! A minimal contributing guide:

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b feat/my-feature
3. Make changes, add tests, run lint and tests
4. Open a PR with a clear description and screenshots (if UI changes)

Please follow the repository's CODE_OF_CONDUCT and CONTRIBUTING guidelines (add files if not present).

Roadmap & ideas

• Automated accessibility checks for palettes and contrast
• AI-assisted logo suggestion and variants
• One-click export to Figma / Adobe XD tokens
• npm package of design tokens for easy consumption

License

Specify the license for the project here (e.g., MIT). If you haven't chosen one yet, consider adding a LICENSE file.

Acknowledgements

• List libraries, templates, and designers you built on or were inspired by.

Contact

Project maintained by iamdanwi — feel free to open issues or PRs on GitHub: https://github.com/iamdanwi/brand-forge

Notes for repository owner

This README is a template and intentionally generic. To finish it:

• Replace placeholder commands with the actual install/run/test commands for your stack.
• Add real badges (CI, coverage, license).
• Add screenshots or animated GIFs of the UI in action.
• Link to LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, and CODE_OF_CONDUCT files.
• Fill out any TODOs and remove sections that don't apply.