Voice & imagery
Draft

How FlatWorld sounds and looks

A helpful colleague in the department, not a sales rep. Warm, plain-spoken, and on the instructor's side. Specifics do the persuading.

Voice

Speak to "you"

The reader is an instructor. "Your course, your way." We are "we" — never "FlatWorld believes that…"

Lead with the number

$24.95. 88%. 40–80 hours. 2,000+ colleges. Real figures beat adjectives every time.

Short and declarative

Benefit first. Bold the payoff phrase, once: "at no extra cost."

No hype, no emoji

"Affordable" and "quality" are the two anchor adjectives, and they travel together. Skip the rest.

Approved lines — use verbatim

Textbooks made for professors. Priced for students.

Bringing textbook prices back down to earth.

When it comes to finding the perfect textbook, you shouldn't have to choose between high quality and fair pricing.

We keep our prices low and our standards high.

Join the thousands of professors who have switched to our textbooks.

Write this

eReader access starts at $24.95. Every title ships with instructor supplements, an included homework system, and a customization platform at no extra cost.

Not this

FlatWorld is revolutionizing the future of learning with an unparalleled, next-generation content ecosystem that empowers educators to unlock student potential at scale.

Photography

Needs content

The direction below is what the brand already does. What is missing is the actual approved library — drop real photography in and these slots become the reference.

Product shot
paperback + laptop + phone

Product

One title shown across all three formats, on a clean cream surface. Proves "your course, your way" without a word of copy.

Instructor portrait
natural light, real classroom

Instructors

Real educators in real spaces, named where possible. Our world revolves around instructors — the photography should too.

Students
studying, candid, warm

Students

Candid rather than posed. Bright, warm, natural light. No stock-photo handshakes, no moody or black-and-white treatments.

Still to decide

Where the approved library lives and who can pull from it · whether stock is permitted and from which source · crop ratios for web, slides and social · the rule for putting text over a photo · model release and attribution requirements.

Iconography

Substitution in use

Light outline icons, 2px stroke, rounded caps, drawn on a 24px box. The set on this site is Lucide, standing in until FlatWorld's production icon files are supplied.

Stroke

2px, rounded caps and joins. Never filled, never two weights in one layout.

Colour

Navy for neutral, blue for interactive. Accent colours only inside a tinted container.

Never

Emoji as icons. Not part of the brand voice anywhere.

Needed from you

The production icon files, and the six flat two-tone illustration icons used for the key-belief pillars on flatworld.com. Once those land, this section switches from a substitute set to the real one.