https://vessa.design/changelog Every change you can see in Vessa, newest first. en Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-26-each-brand-on-your-dashboard-shows-its-logo-status-and-last-edit vessa-changelog-2026-10-26-each-brand-on-your-dashboard-shows-its-logo-status-and-last-edit Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dashboard The dashboard leads with your brands: each card shows the brand's own logo on its colours, whether it's live or a draft, and when you last edited it. Your account, What's new and Buy sit in a sidebar. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-10-25-send-us-your-brand-book-and-we-build-it vessa-changelog-2026-10-25-send-us-your-brand-book-and-we-build-it Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dashboard Book a build on the new Done for you page and share your brand book and files as one link. We build all nine sections in your account and publish them as a client brand. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-25-move-a-published-brand-to-the-client-tier vessa-changelog-2026-10-25-move-a-published-brand-to-the-client-tier Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing A brand you published as your own can move to the client tier from its Settings tab. Its page drops Published with Vessa, and it stays live while it moves. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-25-editor-rows-and-fields-read-right-with-a-screen-reader vessa-changelog-2026-10-25-editor-rows-and-fields-read-right-with-a-screen-reader Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor Every switch, select and number field says its name, each row in a list is one button with its actions beside it, and the wizard's typeface search reads as a list of suggestions. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-25-quiet-text-on-your-page-reads-clearly vessa-changelog-2026-10-25-quiet-text-on-your-page-reads-clearly Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing The moodboard's view switch, the captions on your logo pairs and the grey text in the mockups sat under the 4.5:1 contrast minimum on their tinted backgrounds. Every live page clears it now. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-10-23-add-your-websites-images-to-the-moodboard vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-add-your-websites-images-to-the-moodboard Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Moodboard The moodboard has From your website beside Add images now. It shows the large images on your site, and the ones you leave ticked land in the moodboard in the order your page shows them. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-10-23-applications-upload-your-own-images vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-applications-upload-your-own-images Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Applications The Applications section takes your own pictures now, shown whole after the mockups, for the work a mockup can't show. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-10-23-publish-a-clients-brand-with-nothing-of-vessas-on-the-page vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-publish-a-clients-brand-with-nothing-of-vessas-on-the-page Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing The publish dialog asks whose brand it is. A client's brand goes live with no Vessa line at the end of the page and no vessa.design on its link preview. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-10-23-your-client-can-pay-for-their-brand-guidelines vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-your-client-can-pay-for-their-brand-guidelines Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing Send your client a pay link from the publish dialog. They pay as a business and get the invoice, and the brand goes live when you publish it. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-a-changelog-and-whats-new vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-a-changelog-and-whats-new Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dashboard Every change since launch is on the changelog now with its date, and so is what's being built next. In your dashboard, What's new opens it and shows a dot when something new has shipped since you last looked. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-a-checklist-step-for-your-moodboard vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-a-checklist-step-for-your-moodboard Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor The checklist at the foot of the Sections pane has a step for the moodboard. It ticks itself once the moodboard holds an image, or when you hide the section. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-a-description-under-each-logo-variant vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-a-description-under-each-logo-variant Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Logo Each logo variant takes an optional Description under its label, for the usage rules that go with it. It shows under the variant's name in the Pairs layout. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-add-several-logos-or-images-at-once vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-add-several-logos-or-images-at-once Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor Pick several images at once for the moodboard or Applications, or drop them straight onto the grid. In Logo, Add logos makes a variant of each file, names it after the file and reads from its shape whether it's a mark or a wordmark. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-brand-books-and-big-photos-upload-now vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-brand-books-and-big-photos-upload-now Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor Downloads take files up to 100 MB now, so a brand book or print file fits. Images, logos and fonts go up to 15 MB, and a photo over 4,000 px on its longest side is scaled to 4,000 px as it uploads. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-credit-your-studio-at-the-end-of-the-page vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-credit-your-studio-at-the-end-of-the-page Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing Turn on Credit your studio in a brand's settings and the page ends with your studio's name, linked to your site. Save your studio once in account settings and each brand's credit starts from it. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-downloads-take-design-and-office-files vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-downloads-take-design-and-office-files Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets Your downloads take the files a brand folder holds: AI, EPS, PSD, TIFF, InDesign, PowerPoint, Keynote, Word and GIF, up to 100 MB each. A click always saves them as a file. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-import-a-tokens-file-from-figma-or-tokens-studio vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-import-a-tokens-file-from-figma-or-tokens-studio Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Color The token import in the Brand tab reads a design-tokens JSON as well as CSS: Figma's variables export, Tokens Studio or any DTCG file. Colours and typefaces land in the same review, and nothing changes until you apply. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-read-and-confirm-your-ai-drafts-in-one-list vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-read-and-confirm-your-ai-drafts-in-one-list Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing The publish dialog lists every section that's still an AI draft and shows each one on your page as you point at it. Confirm it on its row, or tick a few and confirm them together. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-your-client-approves-the-review-link vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-your-client-approves-the-review-link Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing The preview link is now the client review link. Your client can approve the brand from it in one click, and you get an email with the button to publish. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-every-gradient-shows vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-every-gradient-shows Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Color Some gradients dropped off the last row of the colour mosaic, and the Sheet layout never drew them. Live pages show every one now. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-jpg-logos-upload-again vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-jpg-logos-upload-again Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wizard A JPG logo was dropped without a word when the brand was created. It uploads now, and a file the wizard can't use is named right where you dropped it. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-the-cover-colour-list-works-with-every-colour vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-the-cover-colour-list-works-with-every-colour Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Intro A palette colour without a hex broke the Color list for the cover. That colour stays out of the list now, and the rest work. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-the-cover-title-clears-the-facts-on-a-phone vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-the-cover-title-clears-the-facts-on-a-phone Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Intro The title and the facts under it share one column now, and on a narrow screen the facts wrap into two columns. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-the-dashboard-survives-a-translated-page vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-the-dashboard-survives-a-translated-page Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dashboard Letting Chrome or Edge translate the page could take the dashboard down. It keeps working in any language now. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-10-23-the-site-brief-tries-again vessa-changelog-2026-10-23-the-site-brief-tries-again Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI When the model was busy, drafting a brief from your website failed outright. It tries once more now, and says why if it still can't. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-23-a-colour-cover-and-your-name-in-the-corner vessa-changelog-2026-09-23-a-colour-cover-and-your-name-in-the-corner Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Intro The cover can be a flat colour from your palette or any hex instead of an image, and its corner can show the brand name instead of a logo. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-23-guidelines-read-properly-on-a-phone vessa-changelog-2026-09-23-guidelines-read-properly-on-a-phone Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing Published guidelines fit a phone now: the logo's clear-space note, the colour band and the typography columns all work on a narrow screen. Every live page has it already. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-23-a-drafts-preview-link-lasts-seven-days vessa-changelog-2026-09-23-a-drafts-preview-link-lasts-seven-days Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing Copying a draft's preview link from the publish panel opens it for seven days, and copying it again starts another seven. The Download all ZIP waits until the brand is published. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-23-a-single-download-saves vessa-changelog-2026-09-23-a-single-download-saves Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets Downloading one file from a guideline opened it in the browser. It saves to your computer now. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-22-duplicate-a-brand vessa-changelog-2026-09-22-duplicate-a-brand Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dashboard Copy any brand from your dashboard into a new draft with its colours, typefaces, sections and files, then start the next brand from there. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-22-name-the-automatic-download-groups vessa-changelog-2026-09-22-name-the-automatic-download-groups Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets The Logo files, Typefaces and Brand colors groups in Assets each take a Title on the page of your own, so a UK brand can say colours. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-22-download-all-follows-your-groups vessa-changelog-2026-09-22-download-all-follows-your-groups Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets The ZIP holds one folder per group in your Assets section, in your order. A group you switched off stays out of it. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-22-download-all-opens-in-archive-utility-again vessa-changelog-2026-09-22-download-all-opens-in-archive-utility-again Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets Archive Utility refused the ZIP from a guideline's Download all. It opens like any other archive now. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-14-a-page-password-needs-eight-characters vessa-changelog-2026-09-14-a-page-password-needs-eight-characters Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing Setting a password on a guideline asks for eight characters or more. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-11-picture-corners vessa-changelog-2026-09-11-picture-corners Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Moodboard A Picture corners slider in the Brand tab sets the corner radius of every picture on your page, from square to soft. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-11-new-guidelines-start-on-the-light-page vessa-changelog-2026-09-11-new-guidelines-start-on-the-light-page Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor A new brand starts on the light page, whatever its logo looks like. Dark is a choice you make afterwards in the Brand tab. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-10-the-editor-sidebar-rebuilt vessa-changelog-2026-09-10-the-editor-sidebar-rebuilt Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor The editor's sidebar is calmer and quicker to read: one kind of row everywhere, plain underline tabs and a progress line at its foot. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-09-the-gallery vessa-changelog-2026-09-09-the-gallery Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing A hand-picked gallery of guidelines published with Vessa, each one opening the live page, with a few lines on what it does well. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-09-09-three-layouts-for-logo-colour-and-type vessa-changelog-2026-09-09-three-layouts-for-logo-colour-and-type Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor The three core sections each come in three layouts now. Pick one under Layout in the section and the preview redraws it. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-09-a-pen-to-rename-any-section vessa-changelog-2026-09-09-a-pen-to-rename-any-section Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Editor Section names could always be changed, but nothing said so. A pen now sits beside every section title in its header, and shows on hover in the sidebar. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-09-each-type-step-sets-its-own-sample-text vessa-changelog-2026-09-09-each-type-step-sets-its-own-sample-text Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Typography Every step of the type scale can carry its own words, so one line can be all caps and the next sentence case. A step left blank keeps the shared sample. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-08-links-beside-the-files-in-your-downloads vessa-changelog-2026-09-08-links-beside-the-files-in-your-downloads Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets A download group can list links next to its files, like a Canva template or a shared folder, so everything a client needs sits in one place. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-09-04-the-create-wizard-holds-still-while-you-scroll vessa-changelog-2026-09-04-the-create-wizard-holds-still-while-you-scroll Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wizard The wizard's window resized in a loop when its content scrolled, which made the AI path hard to use. It keeps its size now. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-31-a-round-of-security-fixes vessa-changelog-2026-08-31-a-round-of-security-fixes Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Publishing We went through Vessa looking for weak spots and closed what we found. There's nothing you need to do. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-31-a-text-logo-shows-on-both-backgrounds vessa-changelog-2026-08-31-a-text-logo-shows-on-both-backgrounds Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Logo When the page recoloured a logo for its light or dark version, it missed the text in a wordmark. The text follows along now. https://vessa.design/changelog/2026-08-27-start-with-ai-or-by-hand vessa-changelog-2026-08-27-start-with-ai-or-by-hand Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wizard The create wizard asks first how you want to start. Take the AI path, give it your logo, your typefaces and your website, and Claude drafts seven sections while you wait. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-20-choose-the-typeface-for-each-type-step vessa-changelog-2026-08-20-choose-the-typeface-for-each-type-step Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Typography Each step of the type scale has a Face choice between display and text, and the page names the family beside it, so a brand with two typefaces shows both. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-20-a-motion-personality-puts-motion-on-your-page vessa-changelog-2026-08-20-a-motion-personality-puts-motion-on-your-page Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Motion Choosing a personality didn't count as editing the Motion section, so it never reached the published page. It fills in that personality's principles now, and anything you wrote yourself stays. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-18-an-aa-specimen-beside-every-typeface vessa-changelog-2026-08-18-an-aa-specimen-beside-every-typeface Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets Each typeface row in the Assets section shows a large Aa set in that face, so people can tell the files apart before they download them. https://vessa.design/changelog#2026-08-17-add-several-files-to-a-download-group vessa-changelog-2026-08-17-add-several-files-to-a-download-group Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Assets The picker in an Assets download group lets you choose several files from your library in one go, each one becoming its own row, and every file's preview matches its type.