# NASA graphics standards manual > A scanned identity manual showing a minimalist cover, wordmark color variants, scaled identification blocks, news-release layouts, publication-grid construction, wayfinding signs, two-sided van graphics, and illustrated uniform applications. - Kind: Slides - Live deck: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/ - Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/agent.txt - Authorship: Not stated - Made with: Not stated - Model: not stated - Built with: not stated - Style: Zines; modernist, identity system, editorial grid, minimalist, technical illustration, wayfinding, red black white - Slides: 60 - Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions. - Shared by Danne & Blackburn in Website, January 1976: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-graphics-standards-manual/ - Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference. ## Before you start Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions. 1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present. 2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized. 3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed. 4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting. 5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use. ## Recreating this deck This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work. Build an identity manual around consistent left-aligned lockups, limited color roles, and clear differences between primary names and supporting information. Explain layout construction with staged diagrams that progress from blank spread to guide lines to populated columns, then demonstrate the same system on signs, vehicles, and clothing using flat outlined illustrations. For a new subject, replace the NASA identifier and institutional text with an original mark and organization, and adapt the application types and accent palette to its actual needs. 1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below. 2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand. 3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator. ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator. A restrained, technical identity manual presenting NASA logo standards and examples of their application. - Color: Mostly black, white, and gray, with NASA red and blue accents. - Type: Clean sans-serif typography, with prominent NASA wordmarks and compact explanatory text. - Framing: Individual manual pages use aligned explanatory columns, labeled panels, construction diagrams and generous white space around wordmarks and application illustrations. - Structure: A cover and information-heavy standards pages are followed by logo treatments, layout examples, vehicle graphics, and apparel illustrations. Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/storyboard.webp - Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f1.webp - Slide 8: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f2.webp - Slide 16: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f3.webp - Slide 23: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f4.webp - Slide 31: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f5.webp - Slide 38: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f6.webp - Slide 45: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f7.webp - Slide 53: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f8.webp - Slide 60: https://meetreference.com/media/exp-nasa-graphics-manual/f9.webp ## Links - View deck: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf - Original post: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-graphics-standards-manual/ - NASA brand usage guidance: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/brand-guidelines/