A Fresh New Look, Inspired by Teachers

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The TPT Brand Structure Staff

You could possibly have seen we have been freshening matters up currently

Around the previous handful of months, the Brand name Structure group at TPT has been performing to evolve our model. We started out by reflecting on our current search and sense and inquiring ourselves, “What’s operating? What do people today recall us for? What can we develop on?” These concerns set us in motion to discover a established of visuals that signify the TPT neighborhood and what we offer: means, inspiration, and shared teacher knowledge.

A four section collage with the new TPT logo, the handwritten phrase "Teacher powered," school supplies against a green surface, and the phrase, "Educators are at the heart of everything we do."

When starting up our rebrand, we looked to our local community for inspiration

For us, we knew that whatsoever colours and visible things we selected necessary to be influenced by our local community and rooted in teachers, due to the fact they are the heart of our model. This naturally led us to target on visual components motivated by the classroom.

Lively colour

We established out to evolve our effectively-regarded “TPT” environmentally friendly to be fresher and extra eye-catching. Rounding out our palette are colors that evoke classroom things, which include a green chalkboard, yellow #2 pencils, and a cobalt blue marker to identify a few.

A brand color palette with the colors TPT Green, Chalkboard Green, Pencil Yellow, Periwinkle Crayon, Marker Blue, and Schooldesk Cream.

Pattern enjoy

In the exact same vein, we’ve reimagined traditional classroom styles. Marble notebook covers, loose-leaf paper, familiar grids, and playful dots and stripes give a feeling of familiarity and heat.

"Learning better together" against a college of different school-themed textures, including yellow graph paper, cream notebook paper, dark green polka dots, periwinkle lines, and a blue composition notebook cover.
Two vertical portrait modules, one dark green with a 5-star teacher resource review that says"Great refresher for my students!" with a thumbs up. The other has a periwinkle composition notebook pattern with a TPT School Access educator with the "resource licenses used" module and the stat, "12/170."

Graphical components that manual the journey 

Instructors supply regular advice to their students — no matter if it is introducing new subjects or assisting them grasp a idea they are battling with. Our gestural line is representative of that steadfast steering and way, weaving in and out of our styles and grounding other visual things.

A portrait of Felicia, a 2nd Grade Teacher, is shown with the phrase, "Top tips for going back-to-school from teacher experts."

We have fond reminiscences of the notes, opinions, strategies, and words of encouragement that academics leave on pupil function. Encouraged by these times, handwritten motifs are sprinkled in to aid emphasize an vital imagined, supply direction, or provide times of delight and genuine encouragement.

A portrait of a teacher in a yellow dress is shown against a pale pencil yellow background with the handwritten phrase, "teacher expert,"  circled and starred. On the other side is a cream module with a dark green tool tip that reads "Check this out! We've recently updated the way this feature works.
6 hand-drawn icons are shown in 2 rows against a TPT green background. Moving clockwise, there is a lightbulb, a group of resource pages, a student engaging with a screen for hybrid learning, two layer virtual documents, a school, and a secure lock.

Translating this to electronic

With these components in thoughts, we also refined our design method to how we present ourselves on our website.

We have added a lot more respiration area by reducing visible muddle. By becoming selective about what we involve and how typically, we permit the visuals we do incorporate to enable guidebook academics and offer the most value.

A new snippet from the refreshed TPT website is shown. The dark green section reads: "Tap into the power of teacher expertise" and has 4 stats listed below. They are: 7M+ teachers worldwide, 85% of educators in the U.S., 7M+ teacher created resources, and 1B+ resources downloaded. Below this is a partial view of the section "On your Wish List"

Symbolizing our serious educator local community

As a brand, we have usually preserved that the finest way to authentically stand for the TPT group is by that includes TPT’s instructors and Instructor-Authors in images.

We’ve included a clean batch of photographs from our community for our rebrand showcasing astounding educators and TPT sources. These shots are all made to be reliable, engaging, and captured inside of serious classroom environments

An educator uses laptop and tablet devices in her classroom to teach the curriculum.
On the left, a white laptop is shown with other desk supplies, including a notebook, pencil, paper, water bottle, plant, and paperclip holder, against a cream background. On the right, two math worksheets are shown with scissors, crayons, paperclips, and a pencil against a periwinkle surface.

Graduating to an up to date identify and symbol

Very similar to how our first emblem reveals two instructors forming an apple as they connect more than a resource, the two Ts circling a person yet another in this brand are an expression of educators connecting and sharing their abilities. Via our new identify and emblem, we’re celebrating our heritage and seeking forward to how we’ll expand together in the upcoming.

Looking in advance

Below at TPT, academics are at the heart of every thing we do. As we established out to outline the visuals that represent our model, that guided our inventive process. Thank you, lecturers, for giving so substantially inspiration to us on this journey!

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