Casual

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — tones/casual",
  "tone": "casual",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:tones/casual"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "text",
      "title": "Tone preview",
      "subtitle": "Voice tuned to the \"casual\" tone."
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "default": {
      "source": "https://www.pptx.gallery",
      "tones": {
        "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"
          ]
        }
      },
      "layouts": {
        "text": {
          "name": "Text",
          "summary": "Prose. Several blocks sit side by side when short and stack when long.",
          "tags": [
            "Text"
          ],
          "direction": "column",
          "regions": [
            {
              "name": "title"
            },
            {
              "name": "body",
              "accepts": [
                "text",
                "list",
                "quote",
                "code",
                "group"
              ],
              "role": "primary",
              "flow": "auto"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Explain one idea in continuous prose. Use paragraphs or flowing blocks for detail that needs to be read in sequence.",
          "preview": {
            "vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/text.svg"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}