Design system

Marketing formats

Sizes and rules for LinkedIn carousels, videos, images, the banner and share cards.

Visuals for LinkedIn, the newsletter and talks are made in Claude Design from this system.

AssetSizeNotes
LinkedIn carousel1080 × 1350 per slide, one PDFSlide 1: the sharpest finding. One claim per slide, with the essay's chart. Last slide: title, betsandships.com, the Waterline.
LinkedIn video1080 × 1080 squareDrawn scenes, captions in Vollkorn, a hook frame first (it becomes the thumbnail).
LinkedIn single image1200 × 1200 or 1080 × 1350The finding, the chart, the Signature.
LinkedIn banner1584 × 396Wordmark and tagline; keep the left third clear.
Social preview (OG)1200 × 630Generated by the site (make_og.py).

Few words on an image: the finding first, plain, in the brand voice. Dark is the default.

The full working rules (voice, fact-checking, the draft format, UTM tagging) are in the brand/ folder of the direduryan/betsandships repository. Known gaps between this system and the live site are listed in the "Cleanup plan" section.

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