Character style guides

Ever since the Muppet characters have been used for merchandising, as a result of a production not initially meant to sell a product, The Jim Henson Company and Children's Television Workshop have made Character Books available to developers to ensure that character consistency is maintained when reproducing outside of the respective companies. These style guides serve to establish a definitive manner in which characters will be drawn or scuplted. Most notably, guidelines are given to ensure proper proportions and colors. In some cases, the Pantone scale is used to reference a particular color -- an agreed upon system of coloring defined by numbers.

1973
Drawings by Bob Tayor

Photographs by Charles Rowan

Produced by Muppets, Inc.

All character pages are a combination of black and white photographs and pencil drawings.
 * Big Bird
 * Oscar the Grouch
 * Ernie
 * Bert
 * Cookie Monster
 * Grover
 * The Snuffle-upagus
 * Fat Blue-Anything Muppet -- named: Professor Hastings, Dragnet Detective, Twiddlebug; pictured: a King, Grandmother Happy, a boy, Simon Soundman, Russian soldier, Mr. Johnson
 * Pumpkin-Anything Muppet -- various AMs pictured
 * Lavender-Anything Muppet -- named: Herbert Birdsfoot, Bennett Snerf; pictured: Twiddlebug, girl, boy
 * Green-Anything Muppet -- named: Twiddlebug, Sherlock Hemlock, Farley, Tony, The Salesman; pictured: woman, police officer, farmer
 * Little Anything Muppet -- named: Roosevelt Franklin (described as Reddish-Magenta); pictured: Betty Lou, Prairie Dawn (described as Bright Hot Pink); described, but not shown: Pumpkin-Orange
 * Lavender-Anything Muppet (with hands) -- named: The Count, The Amazing Mumford, Harvey Kneeslapper, Granny Fanny Nesselrode, The Mudman; pictured: elderly man, boy
 * Herry Monster
 * Guy Smiley and Prince Charming -- color described here as warm gold
 * Little Bird
 * The character pages are followed by eleven color photos also found in the earlier Sesame Street calendars and The Sesame Street Library.