Digital Styleguide
Business equipment includes all documents and items used in day-to-day business, especially for internal and external personal communication.
This chapter is relevant to all REMA TIP TOP employees who regularly work with the documents and objects described. Microsoft Office templates are available on the Intranet to help you create the most common documents.
Business cards
An individual address block is created for each REMA TIP TOP subsidiary or national company.
The font sizes, the font colors black and REMA TIP TOP red as well as the line spacing must be selected as specified below.
“REMA TIP TOP” is always set in capitals and must never be separated!
City and country are separated by a slash without a space before and after.
The designations “Phone”, “Fax” and “Mobile” are always used. The term “e-mail” is not used.
The numbers begin with “+” and the country code, not separated by a space, followed by a space. In Germany, the “0” of the area code is also omitted, followed by a space.
The telephone number is not interrupted by spaces. The extension number is separated by a hyphen without any further spaces.
In general, corporate level business cards are bilingual.
First language – front page
Second language – back page
The size of the business cards is 85 x 55 mm. They are always designed in landscape format.
- The logo height is 12 mm.
• Placement: See layout on the right
Dimensions = logo height
Letterheads and envelopes
The REMA TIP TOP business stationery is created in A4 format and contains the logo with claim in the size and position shown on the right. A print file of the REMA TIP TOP business stationery is available in the download area.
The company stationery is used to print business correspondence and other business documents (e.g. quotations, invoices, QM forms). The design requirements for letters, internal information circulars etc. are described in the following chapters. Microsoft Word templates are also available for these documents in the download area. Basic design instructions are also provided for the free use of business documents, for example for creating new forms.
Please note: The document size is always A4. Within a final document, you may not switch between portrait and landscape format!
The business letter contains the elements listed above. The sizes, ratios and fonts are defined and must be adhered to.
Sender address:
• Arial bold 7pt,
• underlined
• only on first page
“Your character” block:
• first line Arial Bold 9pt/9pt
• second line Arial Bold 8pt/9pt
• only on first page
Page number:
• Arial 9pt
• only starting on page 2
Text:
• Arial 11 pt/14 p
Binder:
• Arial 6pt/8pt
• and Arial Bold 6pt/8pt,
• only on first page
Only the logo with claim is shown on the envelope. Other envelope formats can be adapted. Window envelopes are recommended for business correspondence. In this case, the letter window sender line is visible and corresponding label printing is unnecessary.
Envelope DIN C5/C6
Envelope DIN C4 (für A4)
E-Mail signatur
The Arial font is used for e-mail signatures and e-mail texts. The font can be set in bold for text highlighting. The text of the e-mail is set in Arial, black, 10pt/11pt.
The contact numbers are aligned with a tab. Imprint and Confidentiality Notice are also to be set in Arial, black, but 2pt smaller than the text and address block, i.e. in font size 8pt/9pt. The logo is positioned above the address block. The height of the logo must be at least 8 mm.
Each subsidiary must ensure that its own signature correctly contains the legally prescribed mandatory information!
If trade fair banners or other promotional banners are included in email signatures, they must always be placed below the social media icons and above the imprint.
Attention! Legal requirements apply to the content of the binder, which are subject to country-specific warnings. This content must always be structured correctly and in compliance with the law. The communication management of the respective national company is responsible for this!