The Brand Object

Voice and tone

Which brand context APIs return the voice of a brand, in what form, and how to pass it to a model: a Brandfetch summary, Firecrawl words, a Rainbrand guide.

Three of the eight endpoints return information about how Linear sounds. Each returns something different: a paragraph with a list of tones to avoid, three single words, or written rules.

Endpoint Key What it returned for linear.app
Brandfetch Brand Context API brand.voice A paragraph, four attributes ("precise", "measured", "craft-focused", "technical") and two tones to avoid ("breathless hype", "folksy banter")
Firecrawl branding personality tone: "minimalist", energy: "low", targetAudience: "developers"
Rainbrand Brief guidance Guidance written for the task: "plain, direct, purposeful, concise, confident but not inflated", and how to spell the names
Rainbrand Brand Skill references/copywriting.md The Linear copywriting guide: plain and specific, "confident and thoughtful, not inflated", and a naming rule

The Brandfetch Brand API, Context.dev Brand and Styleguide, and Logo.dev returned no voice.

GET /v2/context/linear.appBrandfetch Brand Context API
{
"brand": {
"voice": {
"summary": "Linear speaks to product and engineering teams in a composed, exacting register …",1Built from linear.app pages. It quotes the Linear About page.
"attributes": ["precise", "measured", "craft-focused", "technical"],
"avoid": ["breathless hype", "folksy banter"]2Tones to leave out. Pass them as instructions.
}
}
}

Read from the site, or written by the brand?

Brandfetch and Firecrawl read the voice from the website. Brandfetch says that every field is "grounded in source data", not guessed by a model. This is useful when you have no other source, for example when you write to a prospect. But it is a description of the copy, not the rules of the company for the copy. The Firecrawl words "minimalist" and "low energy" describe the page more than the writing.

Rainbrand returns the copywriting guide in the Linear brand. The guide includes a rule that a read of the site does not give. The rule is to write "Linear" with a capital L, and to "never write 'Linear app' or lowercase 'linear'".

How to pass it to a model

  • Put the voice in the system prompt as instructions, for example "Write plainly. Avoid breathless hype." Attributes alone, such as "precise, measured", give a model little to act on.
  • Keep avoid lists. In most observed responses, which are read from a public website, they are the only "don't".
  • If a voice summary and a written guide disagree, pass only the guide. The system prompt template shows one layout.

Last updated 12 November 2026