Brand Canvas · Beta
Brand Canvas.
The on-brand design tool for right now.
Ask in one line and pick a size. About a minute or so later, the piece is on your board in your look, with your real logo, fonts and products. Then change it in words, make it in another size, call in a Legend, or grab it and edit it by hand.
Brand Canvas is in beta. It uses Legend Credits from your plan.
The askWeekend promo: 20% off Maple Pecan granola, ends Sunday.
- Square post
- Portrait post
- Story
- Link image
- LinkedIn post
- Slide
- Email header
- Banner
- Poster
Layout sketch of the Story piece. Real output for the demo brand is on the way.
How it plays out
The ask lands at 4:40.
Thursday, 4:40 in the afternoon. The weekend promo just got approved and it runs tomorrow: 20% off the Maple Pecan granola, in Story, Slide and Square. The designer is out until Monday.
- 4:41
One line.
“Weekend promo: 20% off Maple Pecan granola, ends Sunday.”
You type it the way you would say it, and pick Story. About a minute or so later the piece is on the board: the real logo, the brand’s own fonts, the real bag, in the brand’s look.
- 4:44
Make this size too.
You ask for Slide, then Square. Each comes back as the same idea and the same words, laid out again for its shape with a photograph made for it. Not a crop. Each lands beside the first.
- 4:49
Hand it to a Legend.
The Square is fine. Fine is not the point. You hand it to a Legend, who takes the same ask from their point of view, and their piece lands beside yours. You keep the one that sells.
- 4:56
Edit by hand.
The price sits a touch close to the bag. You drag it, nudge it with the arrow keys, and save it as a version. No ticket, no waiting for Monday.
- 5:02
Out the door.
Three sizes, downloaded at their exact sizes. Every earlier version is still there if anyone asks.
You knew what you needed. You had it before five.
Fernway Granola is a made-up brand, and the times are an illustration. A piece takes about a minute or so to make.
One line in, three sizes out
One idea. Three shapes.
The ask: “Weekend promo: 20% off Maple Pecan granola, ends Sunday.” Story first, then Make this size too for Square and Slide.
Layout sketches for now: the real, unedited pieces for our demo brand go here. Each size keeps the idea and the words and is laid out again for its shape.
Brand Canvas, defined
What is an on-brand design tool?
An on-brand design tool makes marketing pieces that already follow your brand: your logo, fonts, colors and products, in your look, at the size you need, without a blank page or someone else’s template. Brand Canvas is the on-brand design tool from Ad Legends.
It reads your Brand Memory, the brand kit Ad Legends keeps for you: logos, fonts, colors, products and imagery rules. It wears a look learned from your own ads. And it places your real files by code, so the parts that make you recognizable are never redrawn.
It is built for the ask you already understand. When you are still working out what the ad should say, start in Fast Ads instead.
On any piece
Change it, size it, hand it over, or grab it.
Edit
Change it in words.
Say what should change: a shorter headline, the logo at the top. It comes back as the piece’s next version.
Another size
Make this size too.
The same idea and words, laid out again for the new shape with a photograph made for it, as a new piece beside the first. Not a crop.
Another Legend
Hand it to a Legend.
The same ask from another Legend’s point of view, as a new piece beside yours, so you can compare.
Another look
Try another look.
The same ask in another of your looks, or the same look worn more lightly.
Edit by hand
Grab it and move it.
Select, drag, resize, turn, retype or delete, Canva-style, then save it as a version. Editing by hand is free.
Versions
Go back anytime.
Every change is kept as a version. Make any earlier one the current version again.
More ways in
Or start from what you have.
Keep this ad
Change one thing.
Bring an ad you already have. It lands as Your original, exactly as it is, then only what you ask changes: your current logo, a different product, a new price, or something taken out.
Reference art
Show it the look.
Drop up to six images whose look you want: your ads, a page you love, a mood board, or a finished piece dragged straight off the board.
Freestyle
Any picture at all.
A scene, a character or a base image, without your brand’s rules. It lands on the same canvas, and a Legend or your reference art can steer it.
The rule we don’t bend
Your logo. Your fonts. Your product. Placed by code.
Image models misspell words, warp logos and redraw packs. So for a piece in your look, Brand Canvas never asks one to draw them. It asks for the picture with no words, no logos and no products in it.
Then code does the rest. It places your real logo file whole, on top and untouched. It sets every word as type in your brand’s own fonts, so the words are never garbled. And it sets your real product photo into the scene, cut out, with its shadow.
Every piece is measured before you see it. Are the words big enough, and clear against what is behind them? Is anything sitting over the product or the photo’s subject? Is the logo whole, clear and inside the margin? What the check finds goes back for a fix, and anything still off comes to you as a note on the piece, never hidden.
Freestyle is the exception, on purpose: it makes any picture you ask for, without these rules and without the check.
Your look
Learned from your own ads.
Brand Canvas learns a look from your brand’s own ads in Ad Legends and saves it to the brand. Save a look from any piece you love, too. Then choose a look for each piece.
Wear it Full, with every part of the look, layout included. Balanced, which adds the look’s light and photography. Or Light: your colors, type and logo only.
No look yet? It uses the studio’s house looks: crafted looks in your colors and logo, varied piece to piece.
Legends on call
Do it yourself.
Or call a Legend.
Some asks need your hands. Some need taste. Pick a Legend when you ask and the piece is directed from their point of view, in your look. Hand a finished piece to another Legend and see what they do with the same ask. Or choose No Legend: your look, as your brand has it.
The Legends are licensed digital personas of real advertising giants, in their voice and in character.
Go ahead. Hand it over.
Give It to a Legend works on any ad you already have, too.
How it works
Ask. Pick a size.
Keep changing it.
- 01
Ask in one line.
Say what you need the way you would say it to a designer. Add reference art, or an ad of yours to keep, if you have one.
- 02
Pick a size.
Square post to Poster, Amazon and email sizes, or any custom size. Your brand’s saved sizes are there too.
- 03
Keep changing it.
In words, in another size, with a Legend, in another look or by hand. Download any piece as PNG or JPG at its exact size.
Fast Ads, Brand Canvas, Content Kits
Which one when?
Fast Ads
Not sure yet what the ad should be?
Start from a strategy: a brief, or a few lines about the goal. Pick an angle, compare three concepts written by the Legends, then commit to a direction and get the finished ads.
See Fast AdsBrand Canvas
Know exactly what you need, and need it now?
Ask in one line and pick a size. The piece arrives in your look, with your real logo, fonts and products. Change it in words, make it in another size, call in a Legend or edit it by hand.
In beta, with an Ad Legends account.
You are here.
Content Kits
Need a whole set for a channel?
Give it a brief and say what you want. It plans the set, shows the estimated credits and builds only what you approve: checked, channel-ready images for Amazon, Shopify, email and paid social, with your real pack shot.
By invitation while it is in early access.
For Amazon listings today
Before you start
Brand Canvas questions.
How do I make sure an AI design tool uses my brand fonts?
Give it your font files, and make sure the words are set as type instead of drawn by an image model. Brand Canvas sets every word in your brand’s own fonts from your Brand Memory, as real type over the picture. A brand with no font files gets a house type pair until you add yours.
Which AI design tools keep ads on-brand?
The ones that place your real assets instead of asking a model to redraw them. Brand Canvas places your real logo and product photos by code, sets the words in your fonts, wears a look learned from your own ads, and measures every piece before you see it.
Can I make ads with my brand kit?
Yes. In Ad Legends your brand kit lives in Brand Memory: logos, fonts, colors, products and imagery rules. Brand Canvas reads it for every piece in your look, so you never upload it again for each design.
What sizes can Brand Canvas make?
Square post, Portrait post, Story, Link image, LinkedIn post, Slide, Email header, Banner and Poster, plus Amazon sizes (product image, A+ and Brand Story), store and email sizes, and any custom size from 200 to 4000 pixels a side. Name a custom size and it is saved for everyone making pieces for that brand.
Does making another size crop my design?
No. Make this size too keeps the idea and the words and lays them out again for the new shape, with a photograph made for that shape, as a new piece beside the first. If the piece was built on your own photo, it fits that photo to the new shape and adds a note about the crop.
Can a Legend work on my piece?
Yes. Pick a Legend when you ask and the piece is directed from their point of view, in your look. Or hand any finished piece to another Legend for their take on the same ask, as a new piece beside yours. The Legends are licensed digital personas of real advertising giants, in their voice and in character.
Can I edit a piece myself?
Yes. Edit by hand lets you select, drag, resize, turn, retype or delete any part, then save it as a version. It is free and works on a larger screen. Your logo and product photos stay the real files: there is nothing in them to retype.
Can I change an ad I already have?
Yes. Drop it in and choose Keep this ad. It lands on the canvas exactly as it is, as Your original, and then only what you ask changes: swap in your current logo, swap a product for its real photo, change a price, or take something out.
What is Freestyle?
Freestyle makes any picture you ask for, such as a scene, a character or a base image, without your brand’s look or rules. It lands on the same canvas. Because it is free of the rules, it does not place your real logo or fonts and is not checked like a piece in your look.
How long does a piece take?
About a minute or so. Reference art adds a little more. You can keep working while it makes; it lands on the board when it is done, and everything you make is saved in your canvases.
How do I get Brand Canvas?
Brand Canvas is in beta and open to anyone with an Ad Legends account, for the brands that account can use. Pieces in your look need a brand set up; without one, a canvas makes Freestyle pictures. It uses Legend Credits from your plan, and editing by hand and learning a look are free.
Brand Canvas · Beta
Know what you need? Go make it.
One line, any size, your brand. A Legend when you want one.
Brand Canvas is in beta. It uses Legend Credits from your plan.