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The Helperbird brand

Writing about Helperbird, or putting it in a school newsletter, a slide deck or a press piece? Everything you need is here, with the rules that keep it looking like us.

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One zip, 1.7 MB: both logos, all 20 Owlie poses, the founder photo and the rules.

The name

Helperbird is one word, with one capital H. Not HelperBird, not Helper Bird. The same goes for our owl, Owlie, one word, one capital O.

When you first mention us, say what we are in plain words: an accessibility extension. After that, Helperbird on its own is enough.

The logo

Use it as shipped. Give it clear space on every side, about the width of Owlie's eye. Do not recolor it, stretch it, rotate it or add effects.

Put it on calm ground. The cream, white, or our purple. Never on a busy photo. The PNG is 1200 by 1200; the SVG scales to any size.

Owlie

There is one Owlie. The mark in the navigation bar is the mark everywhere else: on the purple, on a white card, in an empty state. It has a real alpha channel, so it sits on whatever is behind it.

Owlie on the purple page

On the purple

Owlie on a white card

On a card

Never put a white shape behind it. No circle, no tile, no card drawn just to hold the owl. If a logo needs a box to be visible, the box is the wrong fix and so is the placement. The twenty mood poses that used to live here are retired for exactly that reason.

The colors

Purple on cream is the identity. Pink is a highlight, brown is the ink of our hand-drawn notes. Text always meets WCAG contrast: pink fails as small text on white, so we never use it for body copy, and neither should you.

Purple #450a75

Headings, buttons, links.

Pink #e05880

Accents and large text only.

Brown #b8956e

Hand-drawn strokes.

Cream #f6f5e7

The ground everything sits on.

Ink #292524

Body text.

How we sound

Short sentences, plain words, second person. Say what a feature does for the reader, not what it is made of.

Never promise what the product does not do. Our readers include people with dyslexia and ADHD. Clarity is respect.

The founder

Robert James Gabriel founded Helperbird in 2015. He is dyslexic himself, and built the tools he wished the web came with. He still answers the support chat. Say his full name on first mention, Robert after that.

Ready to paste

Helperbird is an accessibility extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, iPad and iPhone, and Google Docs. It gives readers with dyslexia, ADHD and low vision control over how any page looks and reads, with tools like text to speech, dyslexia-friendly fonts, reading rulers and Immersive Reader. Helperbird was founded in 2015 by Robert James Gabriel, and is made by Coffee & Fun LLC.
  • Founded: 2015, by Robert James Gabriel
  • Company: Coffee & Fun LLC
  • Used by: over 1,000,000 people
  • Rated: 4.7 stars on the Chrome Web Store

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