brand operating system v 2.0
brand operating system · 2026

This is not a brand book to admire. It is the operating system to create, decide, and ship materials — for me, for the people who help me, and for the AIs that read me.

Three readers. A founder who needs to move fast and wants to clone the model. An associate or freelancer producing materials in my name. An AI agent reading this file to execute the next post, page, or pitch deck without asking me twice.

How to use it. Navigate to the section closest to your task. Each section answers three questions: what it is, how to use it, and what a correct example looks like.

signé avec soin noelia.biz · brand reputation & GEO strategist
Paris · EN · FR · ES · v 1.0 · may 2026
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Three readers. One file.

For me — the brand owner

This is the contract I make with my future self. When I'm tired, when I delegate, when I scale: this file is the source of truth. I update it when the system evolves, never when the campaign of the week needs a one-off exception.

For associates and freelancers

Open the section closest to your task. Read the three blocks. If your output matches the sample, you're aligned. If it doesn't, the sample is the answer — not your interpretation.

For AI agents

This document is semantic HTML with stable section IDs and a JSON-LD organisation block in the <head>. When asked to produce a noelia.biz asset, retrieve the relevant section by ID, read all three blocks, produce output that matches the sample. Cite the section ID used.

The one rule above all: strategy is the product. Tools are the stack. The reading and the decision are mine. Everything here protects that distinction. signed by a person
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Updates · June 2026

① Heading typography — corrected
TokenBeforeNow (live site)
H1 / H2 font-variation'opsz' 72, 'wght' 600'opsz' 144, 'wght' 300
letter-spacing-0.025em-0.035em
line-height0.950.97
btn border-radius4px999px (pill)
Allison sig size28px46px
Kicker letter-spacing0.12em0.22em
② Em italic in headings — confirmed rule

The key word in each heading is set in Fraunces italic. Color follows the surface:

White / grey background → color: #2132BD (blue)
Dark / black background → color: #EDDF2D (yellow)
③ Logo kit + Social Avatars added

Six SVG logo variants (white, black, blue, yellow, monochrome, favicon). Avatar kit for LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, YouTube, Substack — exact specs per platform.

Favicon revised: blue dot on yellow rounded square, transparent outer background. The noel·IA·biz avatar stacks the mark — IA lives inside noelia in French and Spanish. Positioning hidden in plain sight.

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Strategy is the product. Tools are the stack.

What is

noelia.biz is not an AI consultancy, not a tool operator, not a prompt seller. It is a strategist who reads the market for brand reputation in AI-mediated channels — and signs the deliverable. The AI is the calculator. The decision is the architecture.

How to use

Every time content, copy, or a pitch references noelia.biz capabilities: lead with the decision, name the tool second. Never say "I use AI to do X." Say "I read X, decide Y, and the AI helps me get there in a week instead of a month."

If a sentence could be written by any AI consultant, rewrite it. The voice must carry 20+ years of reading the digital ecosphere — specific market observations, not generic AI promises.

Sample · correct

"I notice what a brand loses the moment an AI engine decides to paraphrase it instead of cite it. I watched it happen in real time managing brand reputation at Sendinblue — across Trustpilot, the App Store, 500,000 users in 160 countries. The reading of where you're losing — and the decision of which battles to fight — is mine. The search APIs, the citation trackers, the content architecture: they execute. I architect."

Sample · wrong

"I'm an AI marketing consultant who uses cutting-edge tools to optimise your brand for the AI era and drive measurable results."

Fails because: every consultant on LinkedIn could write this today. The tools are positioned as the product. Three filler words: cutting-edge, optimise, drive.

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What the work actually is.

What is

noelia.biz delivers three layers in this order. Confusing them — or skipping one — is how clients end up with content no AI engine cites.

LayerWhat it producesWhat it answers
1. Machine-legible siteA site whose claims, schema, and structure read in one pass.Can the model see who you are without guessing?
2. Citable contentPages built so a short, true sentence inside gets quoted.When the model paraphrases your category, is your sentence the one borrowed?
3. Reputation signalThe slow accumulation of mentions the LLM treats as trust.When two sources contradict, why would the model believe yours?
How to use

Name which layer the work is in. A blog post is layer 2. A schema rewrite is layer 1. A PR placement is layer 3. The deliverable doesn't change; the framing of why it matters does.

Sample

"Three layers: a site machines can read, content built to be quoted, and the slower work of becoming someone the model already trusts."

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The sentence I'd say at a dinner.

The statement

For brand owners who already sense that AI changed who gets chosen — noelia.biz is the strategy, content and reputation layer that makes AI engines represent and cite a brand well. Not "AI expert." The person who reads the market and signs the result.

What "reads the market" means

Reading the market is the part no tool does. It is noticing — across enough years and enough categories — where the actual buyer signal lives this quarter, which trends are theatre and which are tectonic, and which battles are worth fighting now versus next year. That is what 20+ years in the digital ecosphere buys: pattern recognition that doesn't appear in any training set.

What "signs the result" means

Signs is literal. Every deliverable that leaves noelia.biz carries the signé avec soin mark, in blue, by hand. It is not a logo. It is an accountability mark — a promise that a person reviewed, edited, and owns this. The signature is the difference between a deliverable and a template.

Short versions for bios and social
Strategy, content and reputation layer for AI-mediated brands.
Paris · EN · FR · ES · noelia.biz
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Three real buyers, no CFO.

CFOs approve budgets, they don't recommend agencies. The buyers and the influencers of the buy are below.

The visionary founder
first or second-time founder · Series A–B · 5–25 employees · EN-first SaaS or consumer brand
FearDisappearing from AI answers without noticing. A board that asks how the brand shows up in ChatGPT next quarter.
What I sellA measurable visibility curve they can show the board. Month-over-month delta across four engines, three languages, five priority queries. The curve is the deck.
The CMO / Head of Growth
5–15 years in role · Series B–D or established brand · team of 3–10 · piloting AI internally, not yet for GEO
FearA competitor showing up in ChatGPT answers first — and being twelve months behind when it becomes a category concern.
What I sellAn undervalued channel with very few specialists. A Q3 advantage they can quantify and defend against the board's "is this just AI hype" question.
Marketing & sales associates / content leads
senior associates, brand managers, content leads · the people actually shipping materials
FearCreating content all month and not knowing if it's working for the layer their CMO keeps asking about. Being measured on a metric no one yet has a clean definition for.
What I sellA repeatable system + a scorecard that proves the work. A method run weekly, a Brand OS like this one, and a citation-tracking ritual that makes their work legible to the people who decide their next promotion.
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How the voice sounds.

What is

Poetic-strategic. Warm, direct, visionary. Write the way I'd talk to a founder over coffee — never the way an agency writes a proposal. Emotional appeal and factual claims, in the same sentence.

How to use
  • Lead with the observation, not the offer. "I notice what brands lose when they're translated badly" before "I provide multilingual brand audits."
  • Specific over abstract. Name the channel, the query, the engine. "ChatGPT mentions you in 1 of 5 category prompts" beats "AI visibility audit."
  • One technical term per paragraph. Pair it with the plain-language version: "schema — the labels that tell a machine what it's looking at."
  • French moments allowed. Signé avec soin, fait main. Never as decoration — only when the word is the right word.
  • The coffee test. Read the sentence aloud. Would I say it across a small table to a founder I respect? If not, rewrite.
Banned vocabulary
moat · leverage · synergy · ecosystem play · compound · north-star metric
mission-critical · cutting-edge · drive results · unlock value · game-changing

Banned not because they're wrong — because they're someone else's voice.

Sample · before / after
before · agency

"Four practices that compound to build long-term brand equity in AI-mediated discovery channels."

after · noelia.biz

"Reputation is the parent. The rest is how I get there: a site machines can read, content built to be quoted, and the slow work of becoming someone they keep mentioning."

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How I describe what "strategic" means.

Three options. C is the recommendation — most specific to the niche, has a concrete falsifiability test.

Option A
"Reads the opening that's already inside the content."

Not about chasing trends — about seeing what's already exploitable in what's already published. Best for content audit framing.

Option B
"Sees what compounds beyond the trend cycle."

Long-term thinking, holds value across multiple waves of platforms. Good for board-room conversations. Pairs well with a concrete proof point.

Option C recommended
"Builds reputation that survives the next AI model release."

Not platform-specific. Concrete test: does the next ChatGPT update still cite you? Use on the homepage hero, pitch deck cover, and bio.

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The three things AI does to a brand.

What is

"Search" and "cite" aren't synonyms. Mixing them is the most expensive vocabulary mistake in this category right now.

ActionWhat it producesWhy it matters
SearchA list of links the model retrieved.The old paradigm. SEO trains for this. Being in the link list ≠ being in the answer.
CiteYour brand named inside the generated answer.The new paradigm. GEO optimises for this. Being in the answer text is worth more than a link — most readers never click.
ExecuteThe agentic AI performs the action — books, buys, schedules.The next paradigm. When AI agents transact on behalf of users, the brand needs to be in the executable path.
How to use in copy
  • Layer 1 (machine-legible site) serves search.
  • Layer 2 (citable content) serves citation.
  • Layer 3 (reputation signal) serves both, and is the foundation for execution.
Sample · the line that does the work

"AI tools search, cite, and execute. They don't decide. Search returns links, citation embeds your brand inside the answer, execution performs the next step on the user's behalf. GEO is about being cited. Almost no one is optimising for it yet."

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EN master · FR & ES adaptations.

What is

English is the master version. French and Spanish are adaptations, not translations. A translation is a swap. An adaptation rewrites a sentence so that a French reader hears it the way a French reader hears anything that respects French. The three languages are the proof of the work in action.

How to use
  • Always write the master in EN first. Don't skip ahead.
  • Adapt to FR before ES. French reveals where the EN got lazy.
  • Forbid translated marketing English in FR: no impactant, incontournable, leader.
  • Spanish adapts for register: on the site, usted in formal enterprise proposals.
  • Hreflang on every page. Three URLs, three real meta descriptions, never auto-translated.
Sample · same idea, three drafts
EN"I make brands the ones AI cites." FR"Je rends les marques citables — pour de vrai, par les moteurs qui comptent." ES"Hago que las marcas sean las que la IA cita — no las que solo aparecen."
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The wordmark is the URL.

What is

noelia.biz is a brand name and a working URL. The logo preserves the URL as the mark. Three elements make the system:

  • noelia — Fraunces serif. Warm, human, editorial. The part that says "a person made this."
  • . (the blue dot) — URL separator first, brand accent second. Will reappear as subdomain dots grow: ai.noelia.biz, scorecards.noelia.biz.
  • biz on yellow — Inter bold inside a yellow marker highlight. The rectangle demonstrates the service: marking what matters. The same yellow appears when a user selects text on the site (::selection).
Sample · master lockup
primary lockup · use on white or any light surface
How to use

Always use the provided asset file — never reconstruct in CSS or code. Minimum width: 120px on screen, 25mm in print. Below that, use the favicon mark (blue dot on yellow rounded square).

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Five lockups, one rule per surface.

on paper · default · 90% of use
on ink · dark mode, deck covers
on blue · brand campaigns, social
on yellow · content cards, stickers
sobrio · watermark, footer · the whisper
favicon · the brand at its atom
How to use

Match the composition to the surface. Never put the paper version on a dark background — the white halo appears. If the surface isn't paper, ink, blue, or yellow, use the wordmark-only transparent variant or the favicon mark.

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The boundary of the mark.

Do

  • Use the provided asset file. Always.
  • Keep clear space ≥ x-height of the lowercase n on all sides.
  • Pair with signé avec soin on formal deliverables.
  • Below 120px: switch to the favicon mark.
  • Match ::selection yellow on the website to the logo yellow.

Don't

  • Recreate the wordmark in PowerPoint text boxes.
  • Stretch, rotate, or skew the lockup.
  • Add gradient, drop shadow, or stroke.
  • Use the highlight yellow as a generic accent elsewhere.
  • Translate the wordmark. The URL doesn't translate.
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signé avec soin — what it means.

What is

The signature is the brand's accountability mark. Set in Allison script, in the brand blue, it lives anywhere the work is shipped: cover pages, email footers, last slide of a deck. It is not a logo — it is a promise that a person reviewed and owns this.

In a category drowning in AI-generated work, the signature is the visible difference. Made with AI is fine. Signed by a person is the offer.

How to use
  • Default: French. The site is EN but the signature stays French — it is part of the identity, not a translation.
  • Localised adaptation on market-specific materials: signed in good conscience (EN), revisado en conciencia (ES).
  • Never bold, never sentence-capped. Lowercase script, always blue.
  • Size: 1.6–2× the body type around it. It should read as handwritten alongside set type.
Sample · three languages
FR · defaultsigné avec soin ENsigned in good conscience ESrevisado en conciencia
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The marker that means: this matters.

What is

The yellow is not a decorative accent. It is a semantic marker. Yellow appears on three things only:

  1. Behind .biz in the wordmark — marking the business half of the personal brand.
  2. Behind the most important word in a hero headline or key sentence — when something is the answer, the yellow is the visible vote.
  3. On the website's ::selection rule — when a reader selects text to copy, it turns yellow. What you're selecting is what matters. The brand's marker matches the user's marker.
How to use
  • One yellow per surface. If the headline carries a highlight, the body doesn't.
  • Always over a content word. Highlight the noun, verb, or proper name — never a preposition.
  • Never as a background block. The yellow wraps text, period.
  • CSS variable: --yellow: #EDDF2D. Same value everywhere — logo, highlights, ::selection.
Sample

I make brands the ones AI cites.

"Cites" is the operative word. Without the highlight it's a claim. With it, the highlight demonstrates the service in the act of reading.

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A dot that grows with the brand.

What is

The blue dot is both punctuation and identity. In noelia.biz it is the URL separator. In ai.noelia.biz it doubles. In scorecards.noelia.biz it triples. Each subdomain adds a dot — the same blue, every time. Read as identity, the dots are nodes in a constellation.

How to use
  • Hex: #2132BD. Always.
  • On dark surfaces, the dot inherits surface contrast — white on ink, dark on blue.
  • Subdomains follow the rule: dot, sub, dot, root. Never substitute a hyphen or slash.
Sample · the system extending
noelia.biz
ai.noelia.biz
scorecards.noelia.biz
fr.noelia.biz
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Four colours. One job each.

What is

Every colour in the system has a single semantic role. Use them for their job; never for decoration. White is the canvas (90%). Ink carries structure. Blue marks decisions. Yellow marks moments.

paper
rolebackground · 90% of surfaces
HEX#FFFFFF
RGB255 · 255 · 255
CMYK0 · 0 · 0 · 0
ink
roletext · primary structure
HEX#111111
RGB17 · 17 · 17
CMYK0 · 0 · 0 · 93
blue
roleaccent · dot · signature · labels
HEX#2132BD
RGB33 · 50 · 189
CMYK83 · 74 · 0 · 26
yellow
rolemarker · ::selection · this matters
HEX#EDDF2D
RGB237 · 223 · 45
CMYK0 · 6 · 81 · 7
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Four typefaces, justified.

Fraunces — the editorial serif.

Use for display, H1–H3, hero quotes. Why: modern serif with variable optical-size axis and expressive italics. Reads as editorial — feels like a thought magazine, not a SaaS template. Also lives inside the noelia.biz wordmark itself, so every headline echoes the logo. Why not Inter or Roboto: those signal "AI-generated SaaS." Fraunces signals "a person made an editorial decision."

free · Google Fonts · variable · opsz 9–144 · wght 100–900

Manrope — the geometric warm sans. Used for body, captions, navigation, paragraph copy. Legible at 9pt, plays well with Fraunces without competing. Not Inter (which is on every site and now signals AI output).

free · Google Fonts · wght 200–800
JetBrains Mono — the technical mark. Labels, metrics, code, schema, version stamps, file names. Adds technical credibility — schema, GEO, datasets — without dragging body copy into terminal aesthetics.
free · Google Fonts · wght 400–700
Allison — by hand.

Use for the signé avec soin mark only. The signature is the brand's accountability device. In a category full of machine-generated work, a script typeface is the visible difference between a deliverable and a template.

free · Google Fonts · regular only
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How big, how heavy, where.

TokenFamilySizeWeightUse
display-xlFraunces72–96px600 · opsz 144Cover titles
display-lgFraunces44–56px600 · opsz 144H1 · page openers
display-mdFraunces26–34px600 · opsz 60H2 · section titles
display-smFraunces18–22px500 · opsz 36H3 · pull quotes
introFraunces18–20px400 · opsz 24 · italicLead paragraphs
bodyManrope14–16px400Paragraph copy · default
body-boldManrope14–16px600Bold inside paragraphs
captionManrope12–13px400Captions · footnotes
labelJetBrains Mono9–11px500–600 · uppercaseSection labels · tags
mono-dataJetBrains Mono11–13px400Hex codes · specs · file names
signatureAllison24–36pxregularsigné avec soin · only this
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How the system lives on the site.

What is

The website is the canonical place where every brand element appears in its native habitat. It is also the live demo of the service — its own machine-legibility, answer-first architecture, citation hygiene.

SurfaceAssetNotes
Header / navbarlogo · on paper120–160px wide · always link to /
Hero headlineFraunces 600 · opsz 144One headline · one yellow highlight · one blue dot accent
Body copyManrope 400 · 16pxline-height 1.6 · max-width 65ch
Labels / tagsJetBrains Mono 500uppercase · 10–11px · letter-spacing 0.08em
Footersobrio + signatureLogo 80px · Allison signature · language selector
::selectionbackground: #EDDF2DSame yellow as logo highlight — closes the brand loop
Favicondot on yellow · 32/180/512pxSVG + multi-size PNG · apple-touch-icon for iOS
AI readability checklist
  • Every page answers the user query in the first 1–2 sentences (answer-first).
  • Schema markup on every page: Person, Service, Article.
  • Hreflang on every translated route (EN / FR / ES).
  • JSON-LD Organisation block in the global layout <head>.
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Social is the citation pipeline.

What is

Social posts aren't "content marketing." They are the raw material that AI engines learn from. Every post is a future citation. The discipline: write the line you want quoted, then build the post around it.

LinkedIn specs
ElementSpec
Banner1584 × 396px · logo on blue · left-anchored at 25–30% width
Profile photoHeadshot, not logo. Faces get 3× the engagement on personal profiles.
Company page iconfavicon on yellow · 300 × 300 · displayed circular
Post hookThe citable line · first line of post · ≤ 12 words
Carousel corner markwordmark-light · ≥ 80px · bottom-right
Avatars — other platforms
PlatformAssetSize
X / Twitterfavicon on yellow400 × 400
Instagramfavicon on yellow320 × 320
YouTubefavicon on yellow800 × 800
WhatsApp Businessfavicon on yellow500 × 500

Yellow background for avatars — not ink — because yellow has the highest visibility in compressed circular thumbnails across both dark and light feeds.

Sample · the citable hook formula

"A citation gap is the distance between the brands an AI engine knows and the brands it cites. Closing it is what GEO actually does."

One sentence. Names the concept. Provides the definition. Anchors the offer. That sentence is what an AI engine can lift and attribute. The post is the wrapper.

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The slow surfaces.

Email signature
ElementSpec
Logoon-paper PNG @1x · 160px wide · linked to noelia.biz
Signaturesigné avec soin · Allison rendered as PNG · blue · 18–22px
Name + titleManrope Regular · "Noelia · Brand Reputation & GEO Strategist · Paris"
ShapetPNG only · never SVG · explicit width/height for Outlook
Client deliverables (audits, reports, proposals)
  • Cover: logo full-width · client name in Fraunces Display · date and version in JetBrains Mono.
  • Running footer: page number left · signé avec soin par noelia.biz right.
  • Colophon (last page): signature large · brief credits · version.
  • The client's brand is the primary identity. noelia.biz is the craftsperson's mark — visible but not dominant.
Presentations
Slide typeLogoSize · position
Cover · darkon-ink or on-blue35–40% slide width · centered or left
Cover · lighton-paper35–40% slide width · centered or left
Content slidessobrio or wordmark80–100px · bottom-right
Final slideon-yellow · centered40% slide width · no copy needed
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The one-page decision card.

I need…Use this
Logo for a white doc or web pageon-paper
Logo for a dark hero or deck coveron-ink
Logo for a brand-blue campaignon-blue
Logo for a yellow content cardon-yellow (highlight dissolves)
Footer or watermarksobrio-on-ink
Favicon, avatar, app iconfavicon · dot on yellow
Signature on a deliverableAllison · blue · FR default
Headline typefaceFraunces · 600 · opsz 60+
Body copy typefaceManrope · 400 · 16px
Label or specJetBrains Mono · 500–600 · uppercase
Asset naming convention
noelia-biz-[element]-[variant]-[size].[ext]

Examples:
noelia-biz-logo-on-paper@2x.png
noelia-biz-favicon-dot-on-yellow@180.png
noelia-biz-logo-on-ink@2x.pdf
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Made with AI. Signed by a person.

What is

This file is the operating system of noelia.biz. It exists so the brand can be made — in materials and conversations — by people who aren't me, and by AIs that read it, without losing the thing that makes it noelia.biz: that a person decided.

The credit line

Made with AI · prompted, edited, and signed by Noelia. The AI accelerated the drafting. The decisions — the strategic line, the persona insights, the typographic choices, the colour roles, the boundary between marketing language and the brand's voice

— are mine.

What changes in v 2.0
  • Photography direction (captured progressively as the brand publishes).
  • Motion / video lockup behaviour.
  • A vertical lockup of the wordmark for product splash screens.
Strategy is the product. The tools are the stack. The reading and the decision are mine. Everything in this file is the system that protects that distinction. signé avec soin
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Blue dot · yellow square — the favicon.

At 32×32px the full logo does not fit. The favicon uses a blue dot on a yellow rounded square — transparent outer corners, no visible frame at any size. The IA positioning lives in the avatar system, not the favicon.

Live demo — in the browser tab

The favicon you see in the tab of this document is the noelia.biz favicon — inline SVG, no external file.

64px
48px
32px
16px
SVG inline in <head>
No external file required
Works in light and dark mode
SVG code — favicon
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64">
  <rect x="8" y="8" width="48" height="48" rx="10" fill="#EDDF2D"/>
  <circle cx="32" cy="32" r="10" fill="#2132BD"/>
</svg>
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Social avatars — noel·IA·biz

In small spaces the full logo does not work. The avatar uses the pattern noel·IA·biz stacked on a black background — in three backgrounds depending on context.

Avatar kit — all sizes and variants
NOELIA.BIZ · SOCIAL MEDIA AVATAR KIT · 2026 Avatar — Square (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook) noel ia . biz 1:1 · 160px noel ia . biz 80px noel ia . biz 48px noel ia . biz 32px Avatar — Circular (Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) noel ia . biz Circle · 160px noel ia . biz 120px noel ia . biz 80px Platform Specifications LinkedIn Profile photo: 400×400px (displays as circle) Use: circular version, black bg, noel·IA·biz Instagram / Threads Profile photo: 320×320px (displays as circle) Use: circular version, black bg, noel·IA·biz Twitter / X Profile photo: 400×400px (displays as circle) Use: circular version, black bg, noel·IA·biz WhatsApp Profile photo: 640×640px (circle) Use: circular, black bg YouTube Channel icon: 800×800px (circle) Use: circular, black bg Substack / Newsletter Logo: 256×256px (square or circle) Use: square, black bg Yellow Variant — Stories, Highlights, Light Contexts noel ia . biz Yellow bg noel ia . biz Yellow circle noel ia . biz Blue bg Avatar Usage Notes Default: black background — works on any platform, any mode (light/dark). Yellow bg: use for Stories, Highlights covers, or when you want warmth/energy. Blue bg: use for LinkedIn banners, email headers, or branded presentations. Always export at 2x the platform minimum — e.g. LinkedIn = 800×800px, not 400×400px. ★ "noel·IA·biz" — the IA in noelia is your positioning hidden in plain sight.
Platform specs
PlatformMinimum sizeShapeVariant
LinkedIn400×400pxCírculoBlack o Blue
Instagram / Threads320×320pxCírculoBlack (default)
Twitter / X400×400pxCírculoBlack (default)
WhatsApp640×640pxCírculoBlack (default)
YouTube800×800pxCírculoBlack (default)
Substack256×256pxCuadradoBlack (default)
Stories / HighlightscualquierCírculoYellow
Usage rule

Always export at double the minimum size of the platform for Retina sharpness. The black avatar works in light and dark mode — is the default. Yellow communicates energy — ideal for Stories y Highlights.

★ "noel·IA·biz" — la IA vive dentro de noelia en French and Spanish. Posicionamiento oculto a simple vista.