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

cues

avoid

“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
Use first and second person.
2
Use contractions ('we're', 'it's', 'don't').
3
Favor short sentences and active voice.
4
Frame metrics with a human-scale anchor when possible.

Avoid

1
Stiff corporate jargon.
2
Long compound sentences.
3
Overuse of superlatives.
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-introfocus

OPF Config

tones:casual

Open Presentation Format

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — tones/casual",
  "tone": "casual",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:tones/casual"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "title": "Tone preview",
      "subtitle": "Voice tuned to the \"casual\" tone.",
      "design": {
        "contentBox": false,
        "contentAlignment": "center",
        "titleAlignment": "center"
      }
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "layouts": {
      "records": [
        {
          "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-layout/v1",
          "id": "title-slide",
          "name": "Title_Slide",
          "label": "Title Slide",
          "summary": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "description": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "tags": [
            "Opening",
            "Impact",
            "Minimal"
          ],
          "master": "Gallery",
          "masterSlideIndex": 0,
          "groupHash": "ddf3a920a68b7a0316802c6a646bb4bb481c6f5a288d236ab3021b4b990d25c2",
          "groupDefault": true,
          "contentType": "Title",
          "contentMultiple": "None",
          "contentAlignment": "Center",
          "contentBox": false,
          "contentTypeChartPrimary": "None",
          "contentTypeImageFill": "None",
          "contentTypeListBullet": "None",
          "contentTypeListHeading": false,
          "slideTitle": true,
          "slideTitleAlignment": "Center",
          "slideImage": false,
          "slideImageAlignment": "None",
          "slideLayoutDirection": "None",
          "zones": [
            {
              "role": "title",
              "placeholder": "title"
            },
            {
              "role": "subtitle",
              "placeholder": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "preview": {},
          "details": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact. OPF placeholders: title, subtitle.",
          "category": "opening-closing",
          "spatialCategory": "hero",
          "contentTypeTags": [
            "mixed",
            "title"
          ],
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "type": "title"
            },
            {
              "type": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "slideSubtitle": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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