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Ilayer

Brand and media kit

The mark, and the files to use it.

Everything on this page is free to use when writing about Ilayer. Please use the files rather than a screenshot: the mark has a small-size drawing of its own and a screenshot will not have it.

The mark

Two open forms and one solid, stepping down and coming square.

Two open forms and one solid, stepping down a diagonal and coming square as they go. Layers being searched, then an answer that has settled. The open-to-solid grammar is the mark's whole argument: a system either produces something it can stand behind, or it produces nothing.

Grid
64 units. Every coordinate in the small-size drawing is a multiple of four, so a 16-pixel favicon lands on whole pixels.
Small sizes
At 24px and below the mark drops its strokes and its tilt and becomes two solid squares. A 3.5-unit stroke is under a pixel on a 16px favicon.
Clear space
Leave the height of the solid element on every side.
Colour
One violet. The mark never carries a second hue.

Colour

One violet, one canvas

The mark never carries a second hue. Amber appears on the site, once, for an answer that was held back, and it is not part of the mark.

  • Accent#998efeThe mark, links, one control per view.
  • Accent deep#4f4396The mark on a light ground.
  • Accent light#dbdafbThe bright end of the ramp.
  • Canvas#0b0a10The page. Everything sits on this.
  • Paper#f0f0f3Text on the canvas, and light grounds.

Type

Schibsted Grotesk

Everything a reader reads. Semibold for headings, regular for body.

Geist Mono

Labels, figures and anything that has to line up in a column.

Icons

Three paddings, one mark. The iOS tile leaves 19 percent margin because a tile that fills its square looks larger than every other icon on a home screen. The maskable tile leaves 24 percent, because an Android launcher may crop to any shape and only the middle 80 percent is guaranteed to survive.

  • The Ilayer app icon, iOS paddingiOS
  • The Ilayer app icon, Maskable paddingMaskable

The name

Ilayer, one word, capital I and nothing else. Not iLayer, not ILayer, not I-Layer. In running text it takes no article: Ilayer builds, not the Ilayer builds.

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If a guide left you with a question about your own setup, ask it. No pitch if the answer is no.