Well, the intention was direct, not "rude," but answers from our better-angel Barb do tend to shift the goalposts a bit. 🙂
I'll just note that you —
- Are doing branding/logo work, perhaps the pinnacle of this field in a commercial sense;
- For a client (or you wouldn't need to build a branding sheet);
- But don't have the skill/time/commitment to put together your own sheet, which is about as difficult as a memo and is best done as a piece with the branding effort itself, not on someone's borrowed framework;
- Assume that only pay-templates are worth considering;
- and ask for someone else to find one for you.
This, unfortunately, paints you into a fairly small box, and that box is what my response is directed at. Perhaps everything presented is wrong on both sides, in which case, I apologize and hope you find what you're looking for.
Just for context, all of us are here to help each other, newbs and experts alike, and few questions go unanswered in helpful and generally civil ways. But there's a class of visitor here that is not only woefully underskilled/untrained, but asking for help with what are obviously pay projects for clients — and not a few of these posters are rude and argumentative as well; they want a fix/solution/workaround not just now, but framed in exactly whatever inept or unworkable way they have conceived. And hurry, please, their client and hir check is waiting. Your "box" comes awful close to that model.
I gave you a straightforward answer as well: templates are not an good solution unless you're pretty highly skilled and willing to sort out the designer's quirks and tricks (we see many posts from even skilled users trying to figure out how this or that detail was done, and it's often something off-the-charts wonky). Templates for many things, branding sheets included, are not a difficult thing for a skilled user — such as one doing branding and logo work for a client — to whip up, matching their preferences and the "vibe"/needs of the brand presentation, and preparing such a sheet is learning and development time well spent. About the only thing I didn't say was that paying for templates is a very chancy and usually unnecessary thing, with the many free models available, if you insist on taking that route — a route many find to be a bigger PITA, in the end, than just creating their own layout etc. from scratch. And double all that as you say you don't do it often, making investment in a one-shot template even more questionable.
I may be no better angel here, but I do help many visitors, even the kind of frustrating ones. But I have a longstanding bias against those who are in way over their head while charging a client for their work; such types ("But I paid for the Adobe tools! *footstomp*") are legion and it gives all of us and the industry a bad odor. I am always on the side of professionalism first and get a little short with those looking for free passes.
So, very politely, pro to pro and with apologies for any misunderstanding of your position: if you're pro enough to be doing logo and branding work, you should be pro enough to do your own simple support work like branding sheets, and even if a sometime thing it's a useful approach and effort, and most templates will be less help/a bigger annoyance than you think, and paying for templates should be done only on the very, very most selective basis.
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