Brand Book . Volume 1 2026 Edition

Jolyz.

The Netherlands' sleepwear specialist.

For the team, the partners, the curious Locked 18 May 2026

02 . Identity

Three names. One brand.

Jolyz is the brand customers know. Jolyz Fashion is the legal entity. Pyjama-webshop is the domain we live on. Treating them as the same thing has caused most of the confusion the brand has carried since 2019. The brand book straightens it out.

When to use which name

JolyzCustomer-facing. Site copy, packaging, emails, ads, social, support. Always title case. Never abbreviated. The wordmark settles its own treatment.
Jolyz FashionLegal entity only. Contracts, invoices, terms and conditions, Chamber of Commerce filings. Never marketing.
Pyjama-webshopDomain only. Lives in the URL, the SEO surface, and the redirects. Never spoken aloud as the brand. Never printed on packaging.

Things to avoid

  • Abbreviations. No JLZ, no J-Z, no nicknames. The full word reads in under half a second.
  • Translations. Jolyz does not become "Jolyz Mode" in Dutch contexts or "Jolyz Sleep" in English contexts. The name stays.
  • Composites. No "Jolyz Sleep Co.", no "Jolyz Loungewear", no descriptor tails. Jolyz is the category boundary; descriptors come in the sentence around it.
  • Verbing the brand. Customers do not "jolyz" their sleepwear. The brand is a noun.

Origin

The name Jolyz traces back to the 2019 founding of the webshop on pyjama-webshop.nl. The original etymology is not formally documented. The brand treats it as inherited: the name is short, distinctive within Dutch sleepwear retail, and has accumulated trust across more than six thousand customer reviews. That equity is the reason it stays.

03 . Identity

Where Jolyz is going.

Jolyz becomes the name Dutch households associate with sleepwear — the specialist they return to for every season, every age, every budget.

What the vision implies

  • Households, not customers. Sleepwear is bought for partners, parents, children. The unit of trust is the home, not the individual cart.
  • Every season. Cotton in May, flannel in October, satin in December. The catalogue carries the year.
  • Every age. Children grow out of pyjamas. Adults grow into preferences. Seniors care about fabric and fit more than fashion. All of them belong here.
  • Every budget. Twenty euros and two hundred euros both find a good answer. The shelf does not discriminate.
  • Return. The vision is not measured in first purchases. It is measured in the second, the fifth, the tenth.

04 . Identity

The Dutch sleepwear specialist.

Specialists win by depth. Generalists win by breadth. Jolyz competes on depth: more brands of sleepwear, more sizes, more materials, more seasons, served by people who actually know the difference between flannel and modal.

Who Jolyz serves, in order

Dutch households. Two-parent, one-parent, multi-generation, retired. Value-conscious by inclination, quality-conscious by habit. They buy for themselves and the people they live with.

Gift buyers. Sinterklaas, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays. Sleepwear is one of the safest gifts in Dutch culture; Jolyz is one of the safest places to buy it.

Brand-loyal replacers. Customers who wore their Schiesser pyjama for six years and want the same one again. Jolyz keeps brand depth so this customer always finds the answer.

What Jolyz beats, and how

CompetitorTheir gameJolyz wins by
Bol.comMarketplace breadthCuration. We have chosen the brands; Bol lists everything.
WehkampGeneralist apparelSpecialty. We do sleepwear; they do everything.
ZalandoPan-European catalogueDutch service. Dutch-language support, Dutch shipping, Dutch household feel.
Single-brand sitesOne brand's depthBrand choice. A household can outfit four people across three brands in one cart.

05 . Identity

Curate. Present. Serve. Retain.

Bring trusted European sleepwear to Dutch households at fair prices, served well, every season.

The four operating principles

01 . Curate

Every brand earns its place.

Pastunette, Ringella, Schiesser, Hajo, Rebelle, Comtessa, Tom Tailor, Ceceba, Götzburg, Lisca — none of them are on the site by accident. Each line is reviewed for quality, customer signal, and category fit. Brands that stop earning their shelf get dropped without ceremony.

02 . Present

Show the catalogue in its best light.

Product photography comes from brand suppliers; Jolyz controls cropping, color grading, banner treatment, copy register, and category structure. The job is to make a Schiesser pyjama on Jolyz read better than the same Schiesser pyjama anywhere else online.

03 . Serve

Dutch-language service, fast shipping, easy returns.

The shipping promise is honest. The returns are uncomplicated. Customer questions get Dutch answers, written by people, within a working day. Friction is the enemy of the second order.

04 . Retain

The second order is the test.

A first order is a transaction. A second is a relationship. The brand exists in the gap between them, and the brand book exists to keep that gap short.

06 . Identity

What Jolyz holds.

Value 01

Service is the product.

What it means. How Jolyz treats customers is the brand experience, more than any individual pyjama. Two brands sell the same Pastunette set; the customer remembers where the package arrived on time, where the question got a real answer, where the return was easy.

What it does not mean. That product quality is negotiable. A great service experience around a bad pyjama is a one-time apology, not a brand.

Value 02

We curate. We don't manufacture.

What it means. Jolyz earns margin through selection, presentation, and trust. The brands carried are made by their own makers; Jolyz makes the shelf they sit on. Honest about that, every time.

What it does not mean. That the catalogue is passive. Selection is the work. A bad year for a carried brand is a real decision, not a default.

Value 03

Every household, every budget.

What it means. A Dutch family of four can outfit the bedtime drawer here without anyone being priced out. Twenty euros and two hundred euros both find a good answer.

What it does not mean. That Jolyz chases the bottom on price. The cheapest pyjama is not the brand promise. The right pyjama, fairly priced, is.

Value 04

Sleepwear is serious.

What it means. What people sleep in deserves the same care a tailor gives a suit. Fabric, fit, finish, washability, longevity. The customer does not always know to ask. The brand knows to answer.

What it does not mean. That the brand takes itself seriously. Sleepwear is for warm beds, quiet evenings, sleepy children. The tone stays warm.

07 . Identity

A sleepwear specialist, by choice.

The category boundary is the brand promise. Inside it, Jolyz is the deepest catalogue in the Netherlands. Outside it, Jolyz declines to compete — gracefully, on purpose.

Inside the category

What we sell.

  • Pyjamas, all genders, all ages
  • Nightgowns and nightshirts
  • Robes and dressing gowns
  • Loungewear (huispakken)
  • Sleep accessories: eye masks, slippers, sleep socks
  • Adjacent intimates only where they sit with sleepwear (sleep tops with built-in bra, soft-cup loungewear)

Outside the category

What we don't.

  • Lingerie as a primary category
  • Daywear, casualwear, athleisure
  • Swimwear
  • Bedding, mattresses, sleep technology
  • Beauty, fragrance, sleep supplements

Why the line is sharp

Specialty is a finite resource. Every product type added outside sleepwear costs a fraction of the credibility the customer assigns when they hear "sleepwear specialist." The line is not a limitation. It is the product.

08 . Identity

Three lengths, two languages.

Tagline

Dutch . Locked

De grootste online nachtmode specialist.

English . Locked

The Netherlands' sleepwear specialist.

One-line pitch

One lineDutch

Jolyz is dé Nederlandse nachtmode-specialist: zorgvuldig geselecteerde Europese merken, eerlijke prijzen, snelle verzending en service in het Nederlands.

One lineEnglish

Jolyz is the Netherlands' sleepwear specialist: carefully chosen European brands, fair pricing, fast shipping, and Dutch-language service.

Paragraph pitch

75 – 110 wordsDutch

Jolyz is de grootste online nachtmode-specialist van Nederland. Sinds 2019 leveren we vertrouwde Europese merken — Pastunette, Ringella, Schiesser, Hajo en meer — aan Nederlandse huishoudens. Onze klanten kiezen voor Jolyz vanwege de breedte van de collectie, de eerlijke prijzen, de snelle verzending en de service in het Nederlands. Of het nu gaat om een pyjama voor jezelf, een huispak voor je partner of een cadeau voor je moeder: Jolyz biedt voor elk huishouden en elk budget de juiste keuze. Meer dan 6.400 klanten gaven ons een 8,9 uit 10.

75 – 110 wordsEnglish

Jolyz is the Netherlands' sleepwear specialist. Since 2019, the brand has served Dutch households with carefully curated European sleepwear lines — Pastunette, Ringella, Schiesser, Hajo, and more. Customers return for the breadth of the catalogue, the fair pricing, the fast Dutch shipping, and the service in their own language. Whether the order is a pyjama for the buyer, a loungewear set for a partner, or a Sinterklaas gift for a mother, Jolyz carries the right answer for every household and every budget. More than 6,400 customers have rated the brand 8.9 out of 10.

Two-paragraph pitch

200 – 260 wordsEnglish

Jolyz is the Netherlands' sleepwear specialist. Since 2019, the brand has built one of the deepest sleepwear catalogues in the Dutch market by partnering with the European houses that have been making pyjamas, nightgowns, and loungewear for generations — Pastunette, Ringella, Schiesser, Hajo, Rebelle, Comtessa, Tom Tailor, Ceceba, Götzburg, Lisca, and others. The brand curates rather than manufactures, which means every line on the site has earned its place through quality, fit, and customer signal.

What customers come back for is the combination that no marketplace and no single-brand site can match: a wide selection across genders, ages, materials, and price points; honest pricing without inflated reference numbers; Dutch-language support written by people; and shipping that arrives when it promised to. The 8.9 out of 10 rating across more than 6,400 customer reviews is the brand's most-checked credential, and the second-order rate is what the team measures internally. Sleepwear is bought for partners, parents, and children, which means the unit of trust is the household, not the cart. Jolyz built itself to be the name the household remembers.

09 . Identity

The catalogue is the asset.

Jolyz does not own a factory. It owns a relationship — with suppliers, with customers, with the search engines that have indexed pyjama-webshop.nl since 2019. The brand book exists to keep that relationship legible to whoever runs it next.

What the asset is

  • The curated mix of European sleepwear brands
  • The supplier relationships that took years to build
  • The trust position: 8.9 / 10 across 6,448 reviews
  • The SEO equity on pyjama-webshop.nl since 2019
  • The customer database, the order history, the CRM
  • The Dutch-language service voice and the playbooks behind it

What the asset is not

  • Proprietary product design or pattern IP
  • Private-label manufacturing margin
  • Patented materials or trademarked fabric techniques
  • An exclusive license on any brand carried
  • A physical retail presence

How to talk about the asset

Jolyz curates. Jolyz selects. Jolyz presents. Jolyz never "designs," "makes," "creates," or "develops" the products it sells. The credit for product belongs to the makers. The credit for the shelf belongs to Jolyz.

10 . Voice

Warm. Specific. Dutch.

Personality, in one sentence

Jolyz speaks like the friendly shopkeeper who has been selling pyjamas for ten years and still cares which one you take home.

Archetype

The trusted specialist shopkeeper. Not the boutique (too precious). Not the marketplace (too anonymous). Not the warehouse (too cold). Someone who knows the catalogue by heart and recommends the Schiesser because it really does last six years.

Voice attributes

AttributeWhat it sounds likeWhat it isn't
Warm"Een fijn cadeau voor de feestdagen.""The perfect gift for the holiday season."
Specific"100% katoen, machinewasbaar op 40 graden.""Premium quality fabric, easy care."
Helpful"Twijfel je tussen maten? Bel ons, we helpen graag.""Check our size guide for assistance."
Honest"Deze pyjama valt iets kleiner uit.""True to size."
Calm"Voor 22:00 besteld, morgen in huis.""Order NOW for next-day delivery!"

Rules of the house

  • Never disparage a brand carried. Every line on the site has been chosen. Public criticism breaks the trust.
  • Never use luxury vocabulary. "Exclusief," "luxe," "premium" are off-limits unless the brand itself uses the word and Jolyz is quoting it.
  • Never promise what shipping cannot deliver. Cut-off times are honest. "Next-day if you order in the next 47 seconds" is theatre, not service.
  • No exclamation marks in product copy or CS replies. One in a holiday banner is the limit.
  • No em dashes. Periods, colons, parentheses. Em dashes drift into LLM rhythm.

Vocabulary, do and don't

Do say

nachtmode, slaapcomfort, kwaliteit, vakmanschap, families, seizoen, vertrouwd, verzorgd, eerlijk, fijn, prettig, warm, zacht

Avoid

luxe (unless the brand itself does), exclusief, premium, cutting-edge, revolutionair, basic, cheap, simpelweg, eigenlijk, just, simply

Voice samples from the catalogue

Product page . Pastunette pyjama

"Een klassieke Pastunette pyjama in 100% katoen. Comfortabel op koude winteravonden, fijn op de huid, machinewasbaar op 40 graden. Verkrijgbaar in de maten S tot en met XXL."

"A classic Pastunette pyjama in 100% cotton. Comfortable on cold winter evenings, gentle on the skin, machine washable at 40 degrees. Available in sizes S through XXL."

Trustpilot reply . Late delivery

"Het spijt ons dat het pakket later aankwam dan beloofd. We hebben uw verzending nagekeken en zien dat de vertraging bij de vervoerder lag. Mag ik u een tegoedbon van €10 sturen voor uw volgende bestelling? Stuur me een DM met uw bestelnummer."

"We're sorry the package arrived later than promised. We checked your shipment and the delay was at the carrier. May I send a €10 credit for your next order? DM me your order number."

Email . Order confirmation

"Bedankt voor je bestelling, [Naam]. We hebben hem doorgegeven aan ons magazijn en verwachten hem vandaag of morgen te versturen. Zodra je pakket onderweg is, krijg je een mailtje met de track-and-trace."

"Thank you for your order, [Name]. We've sent it to our warehouse and expect to ship today or tomorrow. You'll receive a track-and-trace email as soon as your package is on the way."

Tone matrix

ContextModulation
Product pageFactual, calm, specific. Material, fit, sizing, care. Zero theatre.
Category heroOne sentence of warmth, one of orientation. Never a slogan.
Trustpilot replyAcknowledge first. Resolve second. Sign off as a person.
Customer service emailPolite, direct, useful. No corporate openers.
Bol marketplace listingSlightly more functional. Bol customers scan, not read.
Social captionConversational, seasonal, image-led. Caption is a whisper, not a billboard.

11 . Visual

A palette built for evenings.

Sleepwear lives in soft light. The palette borrows from that: warm neutrals as the room, navy as the type, gold as the lamp. Three tiers, each with a clear job, allocated by rule rather than mood.

Tier 01 . Primary

Navy deep

#1A2A42

Navy

#2B3F5B

Navy soft

#4A5D78

Tier 02 . Accent

Gold

#B8924A

Gold soft

#D4B373

Tier 03 . Surfaces & neutrals

Cream

#FAF6F0

Linen

#F0E8D9

Soft white

#FDFBF7

Rule

#E6DFD3

Tier 04 . Semantic

Green . Success

#2E7D5B

Amber . Warning

#C9A84C

Red . Error

#B8463A

Allocation rules

WhereColor
HeadlinesNavy deep
Body typeNavy / Ink-mid
Primary CTANavy deep on cream
Secondary CTAOutline navy on cream
LinksNavy with gold underline
Page backgroundCream (default), soft white (modals)
Cards & surfacesWhite on cream
Dividers, rulesRule (#E6DFD3)
Highlights, "specialist" markersGold
Sale badgesNavy on gold-soft (never red)

12 . Visual

Two faces. One job each.

Headline . Cormorant Garamond

Moments of conviction. Section heads, product detail names, taglines, brand statements. Italic for warmth; roman for authority.

Jolyz believes sleepwear is serious.

Een fijne pyjama, eerlijk geprijsd.

72 / 64 / 56 / 48 Hero headlines 32 / 24 / 22 Section heads, pulls 18 / 17 Card titles, boilerplate

Body . Inter

Everywhere else. Product copy, navigation, microcopy, forms, support replies. Clear at 14px on a phone, comfortable at 16 on a desktop.

Pastunette pyjama, 100% katoen, machinewasbaar op 40 graden. Beschikbaar in S, M, L, XL en XXL.

16 / 15 Body 14 Captions, small body 12 / 11 Microcopy, labels 10 All-caps eyebrows (in JetBrains Mono)

Weight ladder

WeightUse
Inter 400 / Cormorant 400Default body
Inter 500 / Cormorant 500Headlines, emphasis within body
Inter 600 / Cormorant 600Card titles, brand statements, strong emphasis
Inter 700Rare. Reserved for CTA labels and table headers.

Fallbacks

Email, packing slips, Office documents, anywhere Cormorant is not available: Georgia for serif moments, Arial or Segoe UI for sans body. Avoid Times New Roman; it reads as default rather than chosen.

13 . Visual

A wordmark, and only a wordmark.

Jolyz earns its mark from the typography, not from a symbol. Cormorant Garamond at the right size, weight, and tracking is the logo. No icon, no monogram, no ornamental glyph. The name does the work.

Jolyz

Primary . Light background

Jolyz

Reverse . Dark background

Jolyz

At 32 pixels, the legible minimum.

Jolyz

On Linen surface (e.g., packing slip)

Clear space

The wordmark holds a clear-space equal to the height of the lowercase "o" on every side. No copy, no decoration, no other mark enters that perimeter.

Minimum sizes

  • Web: 16 pixels tall (1× height). Below that, the counters of the "o" and "y" collapse.
  • Print: 8 millimetres tall. Smaller is print-bleed risk, not a brand decision.
  • Favicon: A single capital "J" in Cormorant on navy. The only abbreviation the brand permits, and only here.

Do, and don't

Do

  • Set in Cormorant Garamond 500 weight
  • Use navy deep on light, cream on dark
  • Allow letterforms to breathe at their natural tracking
  • Treat the wordmark as the brand identity at all times

Don't

  • Stretch, condense, or skew
  • Recolor outside the palette
  • Add icons, marks, or composites ("Jolyz Sleep")
  • Pair it with another brand's logo without a sign-off
  • Use any sans serif version of the wordmark

14 . Visual

A 4-pixel base.

Spacing tokens

TokenPixelsUse
xs4Letter-to-icon, badge padding
sm8Inline gaps, label-to-input
md12 / 16Card padding, paragraph rhythm
lg24 / 32Card-to-card, section spacing on mobile
xl48 / 64Section spacing on desktop
2xl96 / 128Chapter breaks, hero verticals

Radii

  • 2 px — badges, small chips, table cells (almost imperceptible, used for the merest softening).
  • 4 px — default for cards, buttons, inputs. The Jolyz radius.
  • 8 px — modals, dropdowns. Used sparingly.

Layout grid

  • Desktop: 12 columns, 24 px gutters, 1080 px max content width.
  • Tablet: 8 columns, 20 px gutters.
  • Mobile: 4 columns, 16 px gutters.

15 . Visual

Quiet line icons, at service of the catalogue.

Style rules

  • Line, never filled.
  • 1.5 pixel stroke at 24 pixel canvas, scaled proportionally.
  • Rounded joins and caps.
  • Single color: navy or ink.
  • No animation in the catalogue (acceptable in marketing).

Subject matter

Material . Cotton

Care . Wash 40°

Shopping . Cart

Account . Wishlist

Trust . Secure pay

Trust . Free shipping

Trust . Easy return

Search

Where icons appear

  • Product detail. Material and care symbols above the size selector.
  • Footer trust strip. Shipping, return, secure-pay icons in a row of four.
  • Navigation. Cart, account, wishlist, search.
  • Email templates. Sparingly, only as section dividers.

Source library

Heroicons (outline set) as the base. Custom-extend for the material and care symbols not covered there; commission a small house-set rather than mixing icon libraries.

16 . Visual

Warm light. Real rooms.

Jolyz photography is divided into two streams. Product photography comes from the supplier brands — Pastunette, Schiesser, Lisca all provide their own. What Jolyz controls is everything around the product: category banners, homepage hero, seasonal campaigns, social, packaging, and the way supplier imagery is cropped and color-graded for the site.

Hero standard

Hero . Winter

Flannel against natural window light, late afternoon.

Lifestyle . Family

Parents and a child in the same pyjama brand, on a couch, real morning.

Category . Loungewear

A robe over a kitchen chair. Empty mug. Quiet light.

Direction rules

  • Natural light. Window light or open-shade outdoor. No studio strobes for hero imagery.
  • Warm undertone. Slight cast toward yellow / amber, never toward blue.
  • Real interiors. Dutch living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens. Not film sets.
  • People shown realistically. Kids, adults, seniors. Dutch-typical body shapes and ages. No idealization, no aspiration-bait.
  • Slight desaturation on greens and reds; navy and creams hold their value.

Forbidden treatments

Never

  • High-fashion studio lighting
  • Harsh shadows or rim lighting
  • Aspirational-only framing (yachts, infinity pools, penthouses)
  • AI-generated imagery without disclosure
  • Heavy color grading that loses skin tone
  • Black-and-white treatment for product imagery

Instead

  • Window light, late afternoon, October to March
  • Soft, even, neutral exposure
  • Real homes, real seasons, real Dutch interiors
  • Photographed humans, credited where possible
  • Color grading that preserves the actual product hue
  • Color always; sleepwear is about warmth

17 . Application

How the system shows up.

01 . Site . pyjama-webshop.nl

The home of the brand.

Header carries the wordmark and the category navigation, no clutter. Category page heroes are one sentence of warmth plus one of orientation, never a slogan. Product detail leads with the brand name (Pastunette, Schiesser) then the model; Jolyz is the curator, not the manufacturer. Cart and checkout speak in plain Dutch, no marketing copy inside the flow.

02 . Email

Quiet, useful, addressed to a person.

Welcome, order confirmation, shipping confirmation, review request, abandoned cart, seasonal campaign. All templates open with the customer's first name; all sign off with a first name from the team, not "the Jolyz crew." The footer holds the boilerplate paragraph, the FeedbackCompany badge, and the unsubscribe.

03 . Packaging

The brand shows up unboxing.

Outer box is unbranded brown (lower theft signal, lower cost). Packing slip carries the Jolyz wordmark, a thank-you sentence in the customer's language, a return slip already filled in, and a small printed card with care advice for the items inside. No marketing inserts, no "follow us" filler.

04 . Paid ads

Google, Meta, channels.

Google Shopping uses supplier product imagery with Jolyz-controlled cropping. Google Search ads keep headlines factual ("Pastunette pyjama 100% katoen . Jolyz") and avoid superlatives. Meta feed leads with lifestyle imagery (the photography standard above), not pack shots. Meta stories use the seasonal hero treatment.

05 . Bol.com marketplace

The voice shifts toward function.

Bol customers scan. Listing titles follow the format "Brand . Model . Material . Size range." Descriptions lead with the practical facts (material, fit, care), then the brand context. No hero copy. The Jolyz voice survives in the warmth, not in the structure.

06 . Social

Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest.

Pinterest is the priority — sleepwear has strong search-and-save behaviour there. Instagram is for seasonal storytelling and brand-spotlight content. Facebook is for community and reviews. Captions follow the voice; image-first always.

07 . Internal documents

Decks, memos, agency briefs.

Cream backgrounds, Cormorant section heads, Inter body. Tables follow the brand-book style. Boilerplate at the foot of any external-bound document. No "About Jolyz" filler — if the reader needs background, they get the paragraph pitch verbatim from the boilerplate section.

Common mistakes seen on real surfaces

  • "Jolyz designed pyjama" — the brand does not design. The product is by the supplier.
  • "Premium quality" or "luxury" — off-vocabulary. Use specific terms (material, manufacturing detail) instead.
  • Multiple exclamation marks in a category banner — never.
  • Stock-photo lifestyle imagery from a marketplace — replace with photographed stock, even if it takes longer.
  • Inconsistent capitalization of partner brand names ("pastunette" / "PASTUNETTE") — always title case, always the brand's own spelling.

18 . Application

Four pillars. One operator point of view.

If a piece of content does not sit inside one of these four pillars, the brand does not publish it. The pillars exist to keep the editorial calendar honest and to keep the catalogue earning attention through expertise rather than volume.

Pillar 01 . Brand spotlights

One brand carried, told properly.

Once a month, one of the European houses on the shelf gets a feature: the founding story, the materials, the production reality, why Jolyz chose them. Editorial register, mid-length, image-led. The brand pillar is what differentiates a curator from a marketplace.

Pillar 02 . Seasonal guides

Winter, summer, gift season.

What sleeps well in March, in October, in December. Material recommendations, weight guides, "buying for a colder bedroom" pieces. Functional, search-friendly, useful at the moment a customer is shopping.

Pillar 03 . Material education

Cotton, flannel, modal, satin, velour.

What each material does well, what each one does badly, what to wash how, how long it lasts. The pillar that earns the trust line on the home page. Service-led; never sales-led.

Pillar 04 . Sleep wellbeing

Adjacent expertise, earned carefully.

Bedroom temperature, fabric and skin sensitivity, sleep routines, why what you wear matters for sleep quality. Adjacent to the catalogue, sourced to research, never overclaiming. Earns trust without selling.

What the pillars are not

  • Fashion commentary or runway coverage
  • Celebrity content
  • Generic lifestyle ("10 ways to improve your morning routine")
  • Listicle filler ("7 reasons to choose Jolyz")
  • SEO-only pages with no editorial conviction

Cadence

One piece per pillar per month. Twelve pieces per quarter. A mix of evergreen and seasonal, weighted toward evergreen for compounding traffic.

19 . Boundaries

Approved descriptions, paste-ready.

These six pieces of copy exist so the team never has to write the brand from scratch. Anyone briefing an agency, replying to a press inquiry, drafting an investor email, or filling a partner form can lift these verbatim.

The six approved descriptions live in §08 Tagline & Pitches above.

The full set — tagline (NL + EN), one-line (NL + EN), paragraph (NL + EN), two-paragraph (EN) — is in section 08. This section exists as the cross-reference for anyone looking for "the company description" and as a single source of truth for the FAQ "How should we describe Jolyz?"

20 . Boundaries

Jolyz at the centre. The brands beside it.

Jolyz is the curator. The brands on the shelf are the makers. The relationship is hierarchical without being subordinate: customers come to Jolyz, and the brands come with the relationship.

The carried brands

Pastunette · Ringella · Schiesser · Hajo · Rebelle · Comtessa · Tom Tailor · Ceceba · Götzburg · Lisca

Plus seasonal and special lines as carried. The full list lives in the merchandising system; the brand book treats the above ten as the core.

Reference rules

  • Always full name. Pastunette, not "Pastu." Schiesser, not "Sch."
  • Always partner's spelling. Götzburg keeps the umlaut. Tom Tailor stays two words.
  • Never appropriated. "Our Pastunette pyjama" is wrong. "Pastunette pyjama at Jolyz" is right.
  • Logos used per the partner's own guidelines. No recoloring partner logos to fit Jolyz palette.

Lock-up rules

In co-branded contexts (a Sinterklaas campaign featuring Schiesser, a dedicated Pastunette landing page), the Jolyz wordmark sits left, the partner brand sits right, separated by a 32-pixel gap and a vertical hairline rule in the rule color. The partner's logo never exceeds the height of the Jolyz wordmark. Supplier sign-off is required on every co-branded surface before publication.

21 . Boundaries

Four claims Jolyz refuses.

The anti-claims are the brand's negative space. A platitude becomes a position when paired with what it refuses. Every anti-claim below carries a substitute: the words to use instead.

We don't say: "We make our products."

WhyJolyz curates. Jolyz does not manufacture. Claiming otherwise breaks the trust that the catalogue is built on.
Instead"We carry European brands chosen for quality." . "Made by Pastunette, carried by Jolyz."

We don't say: "Luxury."

WhyJolyz's trust position is built on accessibility, not exclusivity. The "luxury" register makes the brand smaller, not bigger.
Instead"Trusted quality." . "Fair pricing." . "Every household, every budget."

We don't say: "Cheapest."

WhyThe trust position depends on quality, not price-floor competition. Claiming cheapest invites scrutiny the brand will lose.
Instead"Fair pricing." . "Best value in our category." . "An honest price for what you're getting."

We don't say: "Experts in fashion."

WhyJolyz is a sleepwear specialist. Broader fashion claims dilute the category boundary that protects the brand.
Instead"Sleepwear specialists." . "Nachtmode-specialist." . "We know pyjamas."

When an anti-claim is broken in copy

Live copy that breaches an anti-claim goes to the editor's queue for revision. The fix is logged in the revision history. The brand book does not believe in silent rewrites of public-facing copy — the change is named.

22 . Boundaries

Five things Jolyz owes.

Constraint 01 . Stock representation

Out-of-stock items show as out-of-stock. They are not hidden, not silently swapped to a similar SKU, not labelled "limited availability" when the warehouse is empty. Pre-order is labelled as pre-order with the expected ship date.

Constraint 02 . Pricing claims

No fake "from" prices. No inflated original prices to make discounts look larger. Discount math is verifiable against the catalogue's own price history. If a customer asks "was it really that price last week," the system can show them.

Constraint 03 . Review integrity

Reviews on Trustpilot and FeedbackCompany are never edited, suppressed, or selectively surfaced. The 8.9 / 10 is the actual average. The reply rate is published quarterly. Negative reviews receive the same response cadence as positive ones.

Constraint 04 . Partner brand representation

Jolyz never disparages a brand it carries. Jolyz never claims performance metrics on behalf of a supplier ("Pastunette lasts longer than X") without a licensed claim from Pastunette themselves. Partner imagery is used inside the licence; outside it, Jolyz commissions its own.

Constraint 05 . Marketing claims

Any "largest," "most," "best" claim must be sourceable to a documentable measurement. "De grootste online nachtmode specialist" is defensible because the catalogue depth is the source. "The best service in Dutch ecommerce" is not defensible without an external ranking; it does not ship.

Review checklist before any external surface ships

  1. Anti-claim scan: does any copy breach one of the four anti-claims?
  2. Source check: every numerical claim sourceable?
  3. Partner-mention review: every partner brand named correctly, in licence?
  4. Pricing math: every "from" or "save €X" verifiable in the catalogue history?
  5. Photography licence: every image used within its agreed licence?
  6. Accessibility: type sizes, color contrast, alt text on imagery?

23 . Boundaries

How partner brands show up in our marketing.

A multi-brand retailer lives or dies on its supplier relationships. The brand book closes with the boundary that protects them: how Jolyz represents the houses it carries, what requires their sign-off, what does not, and what language is off-limits until contract clears.

Surfaces that require supplier sign-off

  • Co-branded campaigns ("Jolyz × Schiesser winter")
  • Partner brand-led product pages with deviating copy or imagery
  • Lock-ups using the partner's logo alongside Jolyz wordmark
  • Performance or claim-based marketing about the partner's products
  • Press releases that name the partner

Surfaces that do not require sign-off

  • Standard category banners listing brands carried
  • Product detail pages using supplier-provided copy and imagery within licence
  • Customer review aggregation across brands
  • Search and shopping ads using supplier product feed

Language to avoid until contract clears

  • "Exclusive to Jolyz." Unless contractually exclusive in writing. Otherwise this is a claim Jolyz cannot defend.
  • "Jolyz × {Brand}." Lock-up phrasing implies a formal partnership above what may exist. Use "{Brand} at Jolyz" until lock-up is signed.
  • Performance claims about the partner's product. "Lasts longer," "more comfortable than," "softer than" require the partner's own data and licence.
  • Discount math attributed to the partner. "Pastunette markdown" suggests Pastunette led the price; if Jolyz funded the markdown, it says so.

Disclosure

Partner-led promotional surfaces — paid placements, supplier-funded campaigns, brand-spotlight content paid for by the partner — carry a disclosure footer per Dutch ACM and EU Omnibus directive requirements. The disclosure language sits in the legal section of the customer service knowledge base and is reviewed annually.

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