Casual
Friendly and direct. Use first- and second-person freely; favor short sentences and contractions. Numbers are still welcome — they just sit alongside human-scale framing rather than leading.
Metadata
Attributes
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| voiceCues | Use first and second person. Use contractions ('we're', 'it's', 'don't'). Favor short sentences and active voice. Frame metrics with a human-scale anchor when possible. |
| avoid | Stiff corporate jargon. Long compound sentences. Overuse of superlatives. Bureaucratic passive voice. |
| samplePhrases | We shipped the new dashboard last week, and customers are already moving over. Here's where we ended up on hiring this quarter. It's been a busy month — here's the recap. |
| recommendedNarratives | weekly-progress, status-update, company-intro, focus |
| tags | internal, warm, conversational |
Source JSON
{
"$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-tone/v1",
"id": "casual",
"name": "Casual",
"summary": "Warm, plain-spoken voice for internal updates and customer storytelling.",
"description": "Friendly and direct. Use first- and second-person freely; favor short sentences and contractions. Numbers are still welcome — they just sit alongside human-scale framing rather than leading.",
"voiceCues": [
"Use first and second person.",
"Use contractions ('we're', 'it's', 'don't').",
"Favor short sentences and active voice.",
"Frame metrics with a human-scale anchor when possible."
],
"avoid": [
"Stiff corporate jargon.",
"Long compound sentences.",
"Overuse of superlatives.",
"Bureaucratic passive voice."
],
"samplePhrases": [
"We shipped the new dashboard last week, and customers are already moving over.",
"Here's where we ended up on hiring this quarter.",
"It's been a busy month — here's the recap."
],
"recommendedNarratives": [
"weekly-progress",
"status-update",
"company-intro",
"focus"
],
"tags": [
"internal",
"warm",
"conversational"
]
}