Brand kits
Brand kits help you create content aligned with your company's branding by applying custom text styles, color palettes, logos, and avatars to your video
Brand kits are only available on Synthesia Enterprise plan
Brand kits help you create content aligned with your company's branding by applying custom text styles, color palettes, logos, and avatars to your video. Applying a brand kit ensures that the visual feel of your videos remains consistent, well-designed, and recognizable—even without an in-house designer, saving you time and money in the process.
Brand kits and their permissions are workspace-level, meaning that all users in a given workspace will be able to edit them.
If a workspace admin has locked the library and brand kits, only admins will be able to specify or change the default brand kit for the workspace, create new brand kits, or edit existing ones.
Brand kit components
Component | Quantity | Details |
---|---|---|
Logo | 2 logos | Specify a primary logo for use with light backgrounds, and a negative logo for use with dark backgrounds. |
Colors | 12 colors | Brand colors are used to automatically generate themes to apply to your videos. Themes contain exactly 4 colors: 2 dark colors and 2 light colors. Theme colors are generated by an algorithm that enforces contrast rules to make sure that your content adheres to classic design principles, ensuring that your video is both visually pleasing and accessible for your viewers. The algorithm used to generate themes will not allow you to combine colors in a theme if they don't contrast enough. |
Text styles | 2 fonts | Up to 5 text styles can be specified for each font: Title 1, Title 2, Subtitle, Body font, and Caption. For each text style, you'll be able to set its default font weight and letter spacing. If you or your team have uploaded any custom fonts to your workspace's library, you'll be able to select them from the dropdown menu. |
Avatars | 6 | The avatars specified should be available to all members of the workspace the brand kit is in. If you need to share either stock avatars that have been customized with your company branding, or personal avatars with your workspace, reach out to Synthesia's support team. |
Note:
None of the brand kit components are required, and there is no minimum amount to specify for any of them.
However, if you create a new brand kit and don't add any components or change the default title, the brand kit will not be saved.
Create a new brand kit
Refer to the brand kit components section for details on the settings available for each component. To create a new brand kit:
- Go to the Brand kits page (Assets > Brand kits) and click the
Create brand kit
button. - Upload your company logo.
- Select up to 2 fonts in the text styles section.
- Add up to 12 brand colors.
- Select up to 6 avatars.
- Click
Save
.
Managing brand kits
Default brand kit
Setting a brand kit as default will cause it to automatically be applied to any new videos created in a workspace.
- Go to the Brand kits page (Assets > Brand kits).
- Click the 3-dot menu in the upper-right corner of the brand kit.
- Click the
Set as default
option to update the default brand kit settings for your workspace.
Delete a brand kit
You can delete a brand kit, but keep in mind that you won't be able to restore it.
- Go to the Brand kits page (Assets > Brand kits).
- Click the 3-dot menu in the upper-right corner of the brand kit.
- Click the
Delete
option to delete the brand kit. This action cannot be reversed.
Editing and updating brand kits
To edit a brand kit, go to the Brand kits page (Assets > Brand kits) and click on the brand kit.
Note:
Edits to a brand kit will not be automatically applied to videos already using the brand kit.
When the brand kit for a video has been updated, you'll be notified in the editor. Click Update video
to apply the updated version of the brand kit to the video.
If you close the dialog, you'll still be able to update the brand kit from the video actions menu:
Applying a brand kit to a video
There are three ways you can apply a brand kit:
- From the editor, when you've created a new video. You'll also be able to change the brand kit from the editor.
- When creating a new video by starting with a template.
- When creating a new video with the AI video assistant.
Note:
After applying a brand kit, you'll still be able to change the settings for colors and fonts in your video—you won't be restricted to the settings defined in the brand kit.
So, if a color is not defined in your brand kit, don't worry, you'll still be able to use it in the editor.
From the editor
To apply a brand kit to your video or change the current brand kit, open the video actions menu in the upper-left corner of the editor.
Then, open the brand kit submenu and select the brand kit you'd like to apply:
Applying a brand Kit to your video will automatically replace any colors, fonts, avatars, and logos that have already been set in the video.
You'll also have easy access to your brand colors, fonts, avatars, and logos from the editor:
Starting with a template
Brand kits can be applied to any template in Synthesia's template library, as well as any custom templates in your workspace's library.
Click the Use template
button in the template's thumbnail to get started. Your brand kit will automatically be applied to the new video.
Previewing brand kits
To see how the layouts for a given template will look with your brand kit applied, click the preview button in the top-right corner of the template thumbnail. If you have multiple brand kits, you can select them from the brand kit dropdown menu to preview the template with them applied.
With the AI video assistant
Select your desired brand kit from the brand kit dropdown menu when creating a new video with the AI video assistant. You can follow the same steps for previewing different templates with your brand kit as you would when starting with a template.
Updated 8 days ago