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16.Reconstruct a missing brand guide

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Overview

Client has no brand guide, or a 2019 PDF nobody follows. Extract the live site, the legacy app, and any sub-domains. What ships is the real brand. Generate the document from that.

Most organizations do not have an up-to-date brand guide for their digital products. The 2019 PDF exists but nobody follows it. The Figma file has not been touched since the last rebrand. What actually ships: the live website, the SaaS app, the documentation site: the real brand as it exists today. Extract all active surfaces with Dembrandt, merge the token sets, and generate a brand guide PDF from what actually shipped. This is faster than writing a brand guide from scratch and more accurate than copying from an outdated document.

Extract main site

Terminal
dembrandt client.com --crawl 3 --save-output

Extract legacy app

Terminal
dembrandt app.client.com --save-output

Generate PDF

Terminal
dembrandt client.com --crawl 3 --brand-guide
Output

Token files per surface + a PDF brand guide built from what actually shipped.

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