Compass agent brand guide · Typography

Your fonts are part of your brand.

Your logo is a small mark in the corner. Your fonts are everything else on the page: every headline, price and detail on every flyer, post, postcard and sign. Used the same way every time, they make your marketing recognizable at a glance. This guide shows you why that matters and builds a type style guide made for you.

It goes on your personal style guide and every example in this guide.
1Why it matters

Same agent, same week. Which one looks established?

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Recognition

When every piece looks related, people know it's you before they read your name. Repetition is what builds a brand.

Trust

Consistent materials look professional and intentional. Sellers notice how you'll present their home.

Speed

Decide your fonts once. Every new flyer or post becomes filling in a template, not starting over.

2How it works

Your text only has three jobs

Give each job one look and never change it. That's the whole secret.

Just listed · The Fan District
A light-filled rowhouse with a garden to match
4 beds · 3.5 baths · 2,410 sq ft
$825,000
Your NameCompass
1LabelSays what it is. Small, all caps.
2HeadlineGrabs attention. Biggest text.
3DetailsEverything else: the facts, price and your name.

Once you know the jobs, consistency is easy: the label on your flyer looks exactly like the label on your Instagram post and your postcard.

Same words, four personalities

Capitalization and letter tracking change how a font feels almost as much as the font itself.

Monument AvenueStrong · established · masculine
Serif · ALL CAPS · tracking 10
Monument AvenueSoft · romantic · feminine
Serif Italic · sentence case · tracking 0
Monument AvenueConfident · direct
Sans Bold · sentence case · tracking 0
Monument AvenueModern · airy · upscale
Sans Medium · ALL CAPS · tracking 20
3Find your style

Tell us about your brand, not your favorite font

Four questions about who you are and who you serve. We match you to one of twelve complete, designer-built type systems so every choice is already made for you.

1/4How should clients describe your brand?
2/4Who do you work with most?
3/4How do you like to communicate?
4/4Where do clients see you most?
0 of 4 answered
Example style guide · answer the 4 questions to get yours

Your pairing

Your case & tracking Part of your style, not an afterthought

Your type system Use these exact settings in the Compass platform

See it everywhere One system, every piece

Your signature move

Your rules

Browse all twelve styles
Every style

Five rules that keep any style consistent

Open House this SundayDon't
Never mix Display and Serif

They are both characterful headline fonts and fight each other. Pair either one with Sans, never with each other.

Open HouseDo
Open HouseDon't
Never bold Display

It has no bold, so the bold button makes a blurry fake. Go bigger instead.

JUST LISTED · WEST END10
a quiet street lined with oaks0
Caps always get tracking

10 for a classic look, 20 for an airy, upscale one. Lowercase and sentence case always stay at 0.

Price reduced!
One kind of emphasis at a time

Bold, italic or caps. Never all three together.

4 _bed_ · 3 _bath_ · 2,410 _sqft_ Typed as 4 _bed_ · 3 _bath_
Bonus: hidden listing symbols

Compass Sans turns _bed_, _bath_, _sqft_ and _acres_ into these labels. Test once in the Compass platform; if you see underscores, type the words.