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A design system tells Pretty how your decks look and read: your master and its layouts, colours, fonts and logos, the elements you keep reusing (chevrons, number badges, tables) and the rules your team writes by. Chats and new decks that use it come out on-brand without you repeating any of it. You don’t write it by hand: Pretty builds it from what you already have.

Create a design system in Studio

Opens Studio in the web editor, ready for your files.
Design systems are shared with the whole workspace, so Owners and Admins create them. Members use them in every chat, and can try changes on their own with Make your own copy. See Members and roles.

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What you need

Studio asks “Do you have PowerPoint templates?” You can add up to 20 files, each up to 200 MB.
Pick decks that look the way you want new slides to look. A finished client deck teaches Pretty far more than a template full of placeholder text.

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Create it

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Open Studio

Use the button above, or click Studio in the web editor’s left rail, then New design system.
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Add your files

Answer “Do you have PowerPoint templates?” and add what the table above lists.
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Say what it's for

Optional, but it helps. Type into “Anything else Pretty should know…”, or start from one of the example briefs under the box: Corporate look, Client brand or Sub-brand.
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Create

Click Create design system.
Pretty names the design system after the brand it finds. You can rename it later.

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While Pretty builds

A build takes up to 30 minutes. You can leave the page: you get ”… is ready” when it’s done. Anything you write in the chat beside the build is applied once it’s finished.

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Check what Pretty built

Open the design system in Studio. Its page shows Colours, Typography, Masters and layouts, Elements and References. Fix what’s off with Edit with Pretty, which opens a chat beside the page. Review and improve a design system walks through what to check.

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Use it

Choose Make default in the design system’s menu, so new chats and decks start with it. People can also pick it wherever they start work: The choice applies to new chats only. Existing chats keep their design system.

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Troubleshooting

Pretty can only use fonts it has. Open Typography in the design system and upload the missing family with Upload font, every weight you use. See Brand fonts.
A design system describes one brand. If your files mix two looks, for example an old and a new master, build one design system per brand, each from its own decks.
Click Improve with your PowerPoint template on the design system’s page. Pretty builds it again from your template, as a new design system beside the first.