Character Design

Creating characters (persons) as part of any Visma illustration includes a lot of properties and identity. There are millions of different styles or techniques to do this. In order to connect to the rest of our Visual Identity, we need a basic set of guidelines which ensure that the end result (composition) looks cohesive and familiar to our company values and brand code.

Colours

As any other Visma illustration, use only Visma colours. Of course skin colours are needed, but for all props or clothes, use only one of the Visma Colour ranges.

Style

Look at our typography, icons and illustrations. An immediate connection to these should be favoured. By using a flat and simple expression, we try extend the same level of efficiency and user friendliness. Avoid putting too much detail into facial features like eyes and nose. The more you add to a face the more attention it demands.

Quality

As with our icons we aim for simplicity and use geometric shapes as framework for a lot our shapes. This is also possible creating characters. Even Though illustrations should be simple they should be well crafted. In other words quickly made hand drawn illustrations are hard to connect to the rest of our Visual Identity.

Effects

Avoid using any effects like drop shadow, glow or gradients. A flat reduced expression moves the attention to the meaning of the illustration.

GOOD EXAMPLES

This is a great example because of its simplicity, flat modern and selective use of colour.

BAD EXAMPLES

Avoid using characters that holds close resemblance to well known clip arts.