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brand identity
The whole system that makes a company recognisable — name, mark, type, colour, voice — and the rules that keep it consistent in anyone’s hands.
what it is
Brand identity is not a logo. It is the logo plus everything around it: the name and the one-line story, the typefaces and the scale they run on, the colour palette and how it behaves, the photographic and graphic language, and a set of guidelines your team and your suppliers can actually build from.
We treat it as a kit, not a picture. The test of a good identity is whether someone who has never met us can open the guidelines and produce something that looks like you.
what’s included
- naming & positioningthe name, the tagline, the sentence that explains you
- logo & wordmarkprimary mark, responsive variants, clear-space and sizing
- type & colour systemstypefaces, a type scale, an accessible palette with usage rules
- art directionphotography, illustration and graphic language with examples
- guidelinesa living document — web or PDF — that others work from
- rollout kittemplates for the first things you’ll actually need
how we work
- discoverya workshop to pin down audience, competitors, and what the brand has to do.
- territoriestwo or three distinct directions, each with its own logic — not variations on one idea.
- refinementwe take the chosen direction to a finished system across every core element.
- build & handoverguidelines, files, fonts and a walkthrough for whoever owns it next.
selected examples
Case studies land here as projects wrap.
example 01coming soon
example 02coming soon
example 03coming soon