Made with Adobe Express. The Firefly assistant generated this Cat Brand Kit and saved it to Creative Cloud. Shown here to demonstrate brand governance for the dealer network. · the family of brands
Brand Kit · Adobe Express

One Cat system,
every brand in line.

Cat owns a wide family of brands, from Cat Rentals to FG Wilson to Perkins, and more than 160 independent dealers who present the brand locally. A governed Brand Kit is the mechanism that makes them all look like one company.

Saved to Adobe Creative Cloud: logo as transparent PNG and scalable SVG, the five-color theme, and locked templates any dealer can fill. The image behind this was generated in Firefly to the kit's image guidelines.
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Color theme · Cat Brand Colors

The locked palette

Five roles, fixed values. Once this is the Brand Kit, every asset a dealer builds in Adobe Express inherits these exact colors. Off-brand is no longer possible by accident.

Primary
Caterpillar Yellow
#FFC107255 193 7
Core
Black
#12121218 18 18
Supporting
Amber
#CC9900204 153 0
Background
White
#FFFFFF255 255 255
Text
Dark Gray
#33333351 51 51

Logo · primary lockup

One mark, four safe treatments

The lockup is locked in the kit with its clear space and approved backgrounds, so it cannot be stretched, recolored, or placed on a background that kills contrast.

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Reverse on black
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On Cat Yellow
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On white
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Single color

Image guidelines

Every photo looks like a Cat photo

These four rules are saved in the kit, so an asset request to Firefly comes back on-brand. The hero at the top of this page was generated to exactly this brief: a Cat 390D and a dozer working a real earthmoving site at golden hour.

Authentic job sites

Construction, mining, quarries. Real work, not a studio.

Warm, high-contrast grading

The yellow machines pop against dust and rock.

Natural light, hero angles

No stock-photo aesthetics. Shot like the machine is the subject.

Machines always in active operation

Never idle. The brand is about work getting done.

Brand voice

Bold, direct, no-nonsense

The tone

Plain and confident. It sounds like the people who run the equipment, not a marketing department.

The keywords

Built for it, Proven, Performance, Reliability. These recur across copy so the voice stays consistent.

The restrictions

No soft language, no idle machines, no clutter. Constraints are part of the kit, not a style suggestion.

Channel guidelines

One voice, tuned per surface

The kit also fixes how the brand behaves on each channel, so a dealer posting to Instagram and an email to the network still feel like one company.

Instagram

Punchy, work-first captions. Two to three hashtags. A single, clear call to action.

Email

Scannable and spec-led, driven by the dealer network.

Webpage

Bold headlines, spec-forward body copy, action-oriented calls to action.

The governance payoff

From a wall of mismatched brands to one system

Today every sub-brand and dealer makes its own choices: different colors, fonts, and shapes. Toggle the system on and watch the same brands resolve into one governed look, the Brand Kit applied everywhere at once.

CATCat Rentalsrental
CATFG Wilsonpower systems
CATPerkinsengines
CATSolar Turbinesenergy
CATProgress Railrail
CATSEMmachines
Before. Six brands, six visual systems. A buyer cannot tell at a glance that these belong to one company, and a dealer building a flyer has nothing to anchor to.

Why it matters to Caterpillar

Governance is a scale problem, and AI solves it

160+

Independent dealers

Each one markets Cat locally. A locked Brand Kit in Adobe Express lets them self-serve on-brand, with no design review queue.

$28B

Services goal

Aftermarket and services growth runs on consistent, trusted brand presentation across every touchpoint and sub-brand.

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Governed system

Firefly generates on-brand assets, the Brand Kit constrains them, and Workfront and AEM distribute approved templates at scale.

One way to integrate AI, made concrete. Firefly creates the creative, the Brand Kit enforces the rules, and a dealer anywhere produces a flyer that is on-brand by construction. That is brand governance at dealer scale, the kind of measurable, low-risk first win the panel is looking for.
Reconstruction   Built in Adobe Express from the Cat logo and the public family of brands. The sub-brand tiles are illustrative representations to show the governance mechanism, not official lockups. Palette values are the Brand Kit the Firefly assistant produced.