OPF Tone

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.

casual4 voice cues3 sample phrases

Tone

Casual

4

cues

4

avoid

Warm, plain-spoken voice for internal updates and customer storytelling.

We shipped the new dashboard last week, and customers are already moving over.

Generation cue

Use first and second person.

Summary

Warm, plain-spoken voice for internal updates and customer storytelling.

OPF Field

tone

Schema

https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-tone/v1

Voice Cues

  1. 1

    Use first and second person.

  2. 2

    Use contractions ('we're', 'it's', 'don't').

  3. 3

    Favor short sentences and active voice.

  4. 4

    Frame metrics with a human-scale anchor when possible.

Avoid

  1. 1

    Stiff corporate jargon.

  2. 2

    Long compound sentences.

  3. 3

    Overuse of superlatives.

  4. 4

    Bureaucratic passive voice.

Sample Phrases

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.

Recommended Narrative IDs

weekly-progressstatus-updatecompany-introall-hands

Tags

internalwarmconversational

OPF Config

tones:casual
Open Presentation Format
{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "version": "1.0",
  "meta": {
    "title": "PPTX.gallery — tones/casual"
  },
  "tone": "casual",
  "design": {},
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "elements": []
    }
  ]
}
Open in OPF Playground

Preview this config live at pptx.dev/playground.