Websites without the bullshit.
Anti-X
Lumin, made well.
Brand-led
Websites for less than a tank of gas.
Pricing-led
Type a prompt. Ship websites.
Two-part
The websites that doesn't get abandoned in week three.
Negative anchor
Stop quoting websites. Start shipping websites.
Stop / start
Websites in 10 minutes. Not 10 weeks.
Specific number
Ship websites in minutes.
Outcome + time
From idea to websites, in one tab.
From → To
Lumin — websites for people who give a damn.
For [audience]
Make websites, faster.
Verb-led
Lumin: websites that actually ships.
Outcome promise
These are starter formulas. Replace the words with your specifics — your real verb, your real number, your real audience — to take any tagline from "good template" to "won't be ignored."
Steal the structure
12 famous taglines, broken down
Apple
"Think different."
Why it works: Two-word, verb-led, anti-conformity. Aged 25 years and still works.
Nike
"Just do it."
Why it works: Three words, command form, universal. Defines the brand more than the product does.
Stripe
"Payments infrastructure for the internet."
Why it works: Plain claim, category-creator framing. Makes Stripe sound foundational.
Linear
"The issue tracker you'll enjoy using."
Why it works: Negative-anchor pattern. Names the bad alternative without saying their name.
Vercel
"Develop. Preview. Ship."
Why it works: Three-verb staircase. Each verb is a product. Total arc is the journey.
Notion
"Write. Plan. Share."
Why it works: Same staircase as Vercel. Three verbs, ascending value.
Anthropic
"AI research and products that put safety at the frontier."
Why it works: Long-form positioning. Makes the company sound serious in a category that's mostly hype.
Figma
"Nothing great is made alone."
Why it works: Aspirational, no product mention. Brand-mode tagline for a category leader.
Patagonia
"We're in business to save our home planet."
Why it works: Mission statement as tagline. Only credible because the brand actually lives it.
BMW
"The ultimate driving machine."
Why it works: Single-claim positioning. Owned the word 'driving' for decades.
M&Ms
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand."
Why it works: Functional benefit + competitive jab. Also the longest-running tagline in advertising.
FedEx
"When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight."
Why it works: Long-form, urgency-led, specific use case. Owned the overnight category.
The short guide
Five rules of a tagline that lasts
- Specific beats clever. "The issue tracker you'll enjoy using" (specific, mildly negative-anchor) outperforms "Reimagining productivity" (clever, generic). Specificity reads as confidence; cleverness reads as marketing.
- Repeat-ability is everything. If you can't repeat the tagline three times in a row without sounding awkward, customers can't either. The best taglines have rhythmic patterns: "Develop. Preview. Ship." / "Just do it." / "Think different."
- Cut the modifiers. "Powerful," "intelligent," "advanced," "cutting-edge," "next-generation" — every modifier you remove makes the line stronger. The shortest, most concrete version usually wins.
- Don't try to compress everything. A tagline is one job, not three. If it's trying to say what the product is AND who it's for AND why it's better, it'll fail at all three. Pick one job; let the rest of the marketing carry the rest.
- Sleep on it. The tagline that feels right at midnight after three coffees almost never survives the morning. Pick three, sit on them for 48 hours, then ship the one that aged best.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Tagline vs slogan vs headline — what's the difference?
A tagline is a short brand line that runs across all of your marketing — appears under your logo, in your email signature, on your social profiles. It's brand-mode, not campaign-mode. A slogan is a campaign-specific line that runs for one campaign or season. A headline is the H1 of a single page. The same brand often has one tagline, many slogans, and a different headline per page.
How long should a tagline be?
Two to seven words for memorability. Stripe's 'Payments infrastructure for the internet' is six words; Nike's 'Just do it.' is three. Apple, Google, Microsoft all sit in this range. Longer than seven words and the line stops fitting under a logo, on a business card, or in a Twitter bio — the places taglines actually need to live.
Should the tagline name the product or the outcome?
Outcome usually wins. 'Just do it.' beats 'Athletic shoes for everyone.' The product is what the tagline points to; the outcome is what the customer cares about. Exception: brand-name-led taglines for category creators ('Stripe — Payments infrastructure for the internet') work because the audience is buying the position, not just the product.
When should I write the tagline — before launch or after?
Both. At launch, ship a v1 tagline that's directional but not perfect. Around month 6-12, after you've heard customers describe the product in their own words, rewrite the tagline using the language THEY used. The v2 tagline is almost always better than v1 because it's grounded in real customer phrasing.
Does it need to be unique?
Not legally — taglines aren't usually trademark-protectable unless they're highly distinctive AND used as source-identifiers. But uniqueness still matters: 'Make the web faster' has been used by 30 SaaS products; 'Stop wrestling Webflow' (specific) has been used by approximately one. Specific beats generic.
Should I A/B test taglines?
Hero headlines, yes. Brand taglines, no. The whole point of a tagline is consistency — it gets stronger every time it's repeated. A/B testing a tagline trains your brand on inconsistency. Pick the one that sounds best to a friend who isn't in your category, ship it for at least a year, then revisit.
Can I rebrand the tagline without rebranding the rest?
Yes — taglines update independently of the visual brand. If your visual brand is solid and your tagline is feeling stale, rewrite just the tagline. Examples: McDonald's has gone through 30+ taglines without touching the golden arches; IBM rotates roughly every decade.
What's the difference between this and the headline generator?
The tagline generator gives you the short brand line (2-7 words) that runs across all your marketing. The headline generator gives you the H1 (6-12 words) for the hero section of one specific page. They're different jobs. Use both. If you need to write copy for the actual website, generate the full site on Website Killer and the AI handles both at once, conditioned on your brand voice.
Keep exploring
Related tools and pages
- → Headline generator — the page-level H1, not the brand-level tagline
- → Business name generator — pick the brand name first
- → Hero section generator — wire the tagline into your above-the-fold
- → All free tools
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