The elusive “Ed, Edd n Eddy Style Guide” that I posted about a few years ago has generated a lot of interest since I was last active on Tumblr; so, I’m back to provide a more detailed overview of its contents. To that effect, I’m posting the digital version of booklet that came with the Style Guide.
If you haven’t already checked out my earlier posts, the Style Guide is the official CD rom for product designers for producing licensed merchandise from the show. The CD contains about 750 vector graphics of characters, backgrounds, icons, patterns, and other clipart. It also comes with a booklet that includes previews of the vector files, font samples, colour palettes, product ideas, and other design standards.
Links to each batch of images:
ED, EDD N EDDY STYLE GUIDE
Introduction, Brand Assurance, Concept Submission Form
CHARACTER ART
Size Comparison Charts, Limited Colour Palettes
Character Turns, Character Art
Full Colour Backgrounds, Monotone Backgrounds
DESIGN ELEMENTS
Main Title Logo, Colour Palettes, Fonts, Icons, Character Patches, Frames, Patterns, Editorial Patches, Product Ideas
NB: ED, EDD N EDDY AND ALL RELATED CHARACTERS AND ELEMENTS ARE TRADEMARKS OF CARTOON NETWORK Ⓒ 2000. I’m posting the Ed, Edd n Eddy Style Guide booklet for educational and reference purposes only. In doing so, I have no intention of facilitating unlawful commercial activity of any kind. My sole purposes in posting the contents of the Ed, Edd n Eddy Style Guide are to provide other Ed, Edd n Eddy fans with a glimpse behind the scenes of memorabilia production and to provide fan artists with useful reference materials to carry out their non-commercial projects. I hope that you find these materials to be interesting and informative!
FAQ
Q: This is really cool! Where did this come from and where can I get my own copy of the Style Guide?
A: I’m pretty sure that the Style Guide originates from the Consumer Products division of Warner Brothers Entertainment and that Woo Hoo Design Studio was involved as a contractor. I don’t know if it’s still possible to obtain a copy as a licensee but that likely isn’t an option unless you’re in the industry. The only place that I’ve seen the Style Guide being sold is on eBay auctions; however, I’ve only seen two eBay listings for it over the last 8 years.
Q: When did the Style Guide come out?
A: I’m not sure when the Style Guide was first published but the vector files were created between August and October 2000 (about half way through the original run of Season 2).
Q: You said that there are about 750 vector graphics on the CD but there seem to be fewer pictured in the booklet. Are there more graphics on the CD?
A: Sort of. There are three versions (full colour, CMYK colour, and line art) of each graphic pictured on pp. 15-33, two versions (full colour and line art) of each graphic pictured on pp. 34-36, and two versions (full colour and CMYK colour) of each graphic pictured on pp. 46-63. The full colour and CMYK colour graphics look identical. There are also full colour .EPS files for the graphics on pp. 7-13 but they omit the horizontal guide lines.
Q: Your original post about the style guide showed a paper booklet. Is it different from the digital booklet?
A: A little bit. Every page in the paper booklet contains the same information and graphics as the digital booklet but some pages are rearranged a bit to accommodate the square pages. pp.19-36 of the paper booklet are printed in greyscale and show the line art graphics instead of the full colour ones. In the paper booklet, the reverse of the cover is covered in the blue line pattern from p. 60, the next page is covered in the same pattern with the “Ed, Edd n Eddy Style Guide” logo on the centre, and the following page is covered in the two-coloured orange pattern from p. 59 with a table of contents. The front and back covers of the paper booklet are identical to the front and back covers of the CD case (pictured above).
Q: Besides the vector graphics and the digital booklet, is there anything else on the CD?
A: Yes but nothing exciting. There’s a couple installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 and copies of the concept submission form from p. 5 in .PDF, .XLS, and .EPS formats. There’s a readme that notes that the concept submission form .PDF can only be opened in Acrobat Reader 4.0 and a unix executable file called “BA_GUIDELINES”, which I can’t open properly (opening it in a text editor makes me think that its just another version of the brand assurance guidelines from pp. 3-4).
Q: Is the original booklet watermarked?
A: No. I added the watermarks and resized the images to make it more difficult to recycle the images for unlawful shenanigans.
Q: Can I re-upload the images somewhere else?
A: Please don’t (reblogs are, of course, very much welcomed).
Q: Will you post the original vector graphics files?
A: No. I don’t want to facilitate an emergence of (really authentic looking) bootlegs popping up all over the place. Scammers are dorks.
Q: I work in product development and I’m interested in creating a licensed Ed, Edd n Eddy product. Can you DM me some of the vector graphics and a copy of the concept submission form?
A: No.
Q: Can you DM me a copy of a specific vector graphic? Or even just a high resolution .PNG? I promise I won’t do anything nefarious with it.
A: No.
Q: Will you post anything else from the Style Guide?
A: Probably not but I might add some more commentary eventually.
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