Storybook is an open-source frontend workshop for building, testing, and documenting UI components in isolation. It helps developers create durable user interfaces, mock edge cases, and integrate with various development tools. It also facilitates UI testing and documentation, allowing teams to share how their UI works.

Features
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Must Have

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Centralized Asset Storage

Brand Guideline Editor

Shareable Brand Guide URL

Asset Organization & Search

Version Control & Updates

Other

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Customizable Sections

Preview Mode

Real-time Collaboration

Integration with Design & Dev Workflows

Logo Variant Upload

Color Palette Definition

Typography Settings

Google & Custom Fonts

Asset Generation Tools

Browser Extension Access

AI Consistency Checker

Automated Notifications

Whitelabel Agency Mode

Rationale

Storybook is primarily a frontend workshop for building UI components in isolation, focusing on development, testing, and documentation for developers. While it allows for documenting UI components and sharing them, which can be seen as a form of brand guideline, it's not a dedicated brand guideline and asset management platform like ybrand. It lacks explicit features for centralized asset storage of general brand assets (logos, fonts, images beyond UI components), color palette definition with specific values (HEX, RGB, CMYK), and typography settings in the context of a brand guide. Its 'documentation' and 'sharing' features align somewhat with 'brand-guideline-editor' and 'shareable-brand-guide-url', and it offers 'customizable-sections' and 'preview-mode' for its component documentation. The 'integration-with-design-workflows' is also present through its extensive addon ecosystem.