PlanMe · Designers
Designer guide
What the job is, how much of it there is, and which pack each drawing belongs to. One drawing serves any year, month and language — PlanMe fills in the dates and labels at render time.
What you are drawing
Planners are printed at home, so colour lives only where it pays for itself: the cover and the special pages. Everything else is drawn in black and white — and that is where the work actually is.
Set the covers aside for a moment: 6 packs, one template, one drawing each. What a planner is really made of is the 15 black-and-white interiors, drawn once per mono style, and the 12 special dates, drawn in colour on top of those same layouts.
- 1Black-and-white page templates first. The month grid, the week sheet and the day sheets are what somebody looks at every day for a year.
- 2Special pages second. 12 dates, drawn in colour over interior layouts you have already made — they are what makes a planner feel like a gift rather than a form.
- 3Covers last. 6 packs, one template, no calendar logic at all. It is the fastest part of the job and the easiest to redo.
| Area | Drawings | Files |
|---|---|---|
| Black-and-white page templates | 15 × 3 = 45 | 90 |
| Motif pages | 12 | 24 |
| Covers | 6 × 1 = 6 | 12 |
| Decoration packs | 6 × 9 = 54 | 108 |
Where a template has no artwork, PlanMe renders a plain built-in layout. A partial pack is fine and genuinely useful — start with the pages people use every week.
Step-by-step recipes for the black-and-white pages →Style packs
Two kinds of pack. The 3 mono packs carry the interiors; the 6 colour packs carry the covers and the special pages.
Interiors are drawn once per mono style rather than once per colour pack — that is what keeps the work finite. A month grid drawn for mono-serif sits under every colour pack a buyer might pick.
| Slug | Name | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| classic | Classic | cover |
| winter | Winter | cover |
| midnight | Midnight | cover |
| pastel | Pastel | cover |
| ocean | Ocean | cover |
| rosegold | Rose Gold | cover |
| mono-minimal | Minimal | interior |
| mono-serif | Serif | interior |
| mono-bold | Bold Grid | interior |
The folder you deliver is named after the pack slug, exactly as written here.
What you need before you start
Everything except Illustrator is already in the handoff bundle.
- Adobe Illustrator (or any editor that exports clean SVG).
- asset-manifest.json — every token, palette and label text in all three languages. Size your text boxes against it: Ukrainian and Polish commonly run 1.5–2× the English width.
- month-calendar.A4.svg — a working example with nothing hardcoded. Opening it is the fastest way to understand the system.
- Repository access to run the artwork checker (or send us a file and we will run it).